Poor implementation frequently impedes social protection delivery in low-state-capacity settings. In such environments, reducing managers' information acquisition costs may improve their grasp of frontline issues and program performance. However, in the presence of managerial rent-seeking,...

Work requirements are often criticized for imposing administrative burdens that reduce access to benefits, yet prior research has struggled to isolate this mechanism from other sources of disenrollment. This paper provides direct evidence by examining procedural denials in the Supplemental...

Human-centered social security administrations keep the human dimension in control of decision-making. This is made possible through the insight to be gained from digital data-driven innovation in policy and governance and managerial reforms. Moreover, there are risks associated with collecting...

Poor implementation frequently impedes social protection delivery in low-state-capacity settings. In such environments, reducing managers' information acquisition costs may improve their grasp of frontline issues and program performance. However, in the presence of managerial rent-seeking,...

Why is in-kind aid a prominent feature of welfare systems? We present a lab-in-the-field experiment involving members of the general U.S. population and SNAP recipients. After documenting a widespread desire to limit recipients' choices, we quantify the relative importance of (i) welfarist...

"This book examines efforts to respond to the challenging problem of inner-city poverty by examining the shifting policies of New York City's Human Resources Administration (HRA) over the course of six decades. The efforts to redirect an entrenched bureaucracy onto an innovative path have had...

Take-up of means-tested transfer programs in the United States remains incomplete despite their substantial value to eligible households. We contribute to the literature on determinants of program participation by providing the first causal estimates of how proximity to Supplemental Nutrition...

The American social welfare system was transformed during the 1930s. Prior to the New Deal public relief was administered almost exclusively by local governments. The administration of local public relief was widely thought to be corrupt. Beginning in 1933, federal, state, and local governments...

Svensk välfärd och innehållet i välfärdspolitiken har förändrats på ett genomgripande sätt under de senaste decennierna och omvandlingen varierar med plats och sammanhang. Med exempel från kultur- och arbetsmarknadspolitik, brottsförebyggande arbete, utbildning, idrott, vård och...

We study the effect of application costs on the targeting of disability programs. We identify these effects using the closings of Social Security Administration field offices, which provide assistance with filing disability applications. Closings lead to a persistent 16 percent decline in the...

Perspektiv på samverkan behandlar samverkan utifrån fyra olika teman: brukare, profession, organisering och styrning. Författarna ger både bredd och djup i diskussionen och problematiseringen av samverkan när det kommer till frågor om organisering och ledning av offentlig sektor

In this paper we focus on the role of caseworkers in the assignment and take-up of welfare-to-work programs. We conduct a field experiment that generates exogenous variation in the assignment to different policy regimes to caseworkers. The experiment allows us to provide evidence on the...

In this paper we focus on the role of caseworkers in the assignment and take-up of welfare-to-work programs. We conduct a field experiment that generates exogenous variation in the assignment to different policy regimes to caseworkers. The experiment allows us to provide evidence on the...

The world is going through a period of change. Volatile economic growth, climate change, the technological revolution, migration and the demographic transition all reflect this, as do the impacts these changes are having on society and the challenges they pose for public policies. Continuing the...

The application process is critical to the targeting of disability programs because disability, relative to other tags, is difficult to observe and costly to verify. We study the effect of application costs on the targeting of disability programs using the closings of Social Security...

The application process is critical to the targeting of disability programs because disability, relative to other tags, is difficult to observe and costly to verify. We study the effect of application costs on the targeting of disability programs using the closings of Social Security...

In the spirit of new public management and new governance concepts, states have shifted from hierarchical and bureaucratic models of welfare administration to more flexible and market-oriented arrangements. As part of this transformation, states designed new accountability structures to cope...

Sozial 4.0 ist ein Quantensprung auf dem Weg zum Grundeinkommen. Mit Hilfe der Digitalisierung gelingt schrittweise die Revolution: Ein einfaches, integriertes und motivierendes System. Ulrich Bode vermittelt einen kompakten Überblick und entwickelt die Roadmap für ein Grundeinkommen. Sozial...

This report assesses the impact on citizens and businesses of the administrative simplification measures carried out by the Mexican Social Security Institute. Administrative burdens are measured in the time it takes citizens and businesses to complete forms and wait in line to request or deliver...

Universities are uniquely positioned to provide the very best training opportunities to public child welfare workers. However, university-child welfare agency training partnerships require a significant commitment of time and resources by university personnel at a time of extensive state cuts to...

This article explores the relationship of globalization to domestic law in the context of privatized welfare services in Indiana. It examines the ways that privatization can affect vulnerable populations such as welfare recipients by, in effect, partially dis-embedding the market from the state....

Mothers' Pensions programs swept the nation during the Progressive era, part of a widespread state-based policy movement targeting the needs of children. This paper examines and describes the social and political forces that both impeded and facilitated the enactment of mothers' pensions in...

Universities are uniquely positioned to provide the very best training opportunities to public child welfare workers. However, university–child welfare agency training partnerships require a significant commitment of time and resources by university personnel at a time of extensive state cuts...

Universities are uniquely positioned to provide the very best training opportunities to public child welfare workers. However, university-child welfare agency training partnerships require a significant commitment of time and resources by university personnel at a time of extensive state cuts to...

Das Buch bietet eine kompakte Einführung in die Steuerungs- und Gestaltungsansätze der kommunalen Sozialverwaltung. In einer kompakten und strukturierten Übersicht werden die ‚top down‘ Steuerungsmechanismen des Bürokratiemodells und des Neuen Steuerungsmodells vorgestellt und...

The world is going through a period of change. Volatile economic growth, climate change, the technological revolution, migration and the demographic transition all reflect this, as do the impacts these changes are having on society and the challenges they pose for public policies. Continuing the...

In dieser Einführung werden die Arbeitsfelder und Organisationen der Sozialen Arbeit systematisch und praxisbezogen vorgestellt. Das Buch ist als Überblick konzipiert und vermittelt kompakt und verständlich Basiswissen, insbesondere für Studierende der Sozialen Arbeit und angrenzender...

The 2005 reform of the German welfare system introduced two competing organizational models for welfare administration. In most districts, a centralized organization was established where local welfare agencies are bound to central directives. At the same time, 69 districts were allowed to opt...

Hartz IV steht als Chiffre für eine Sozialrechtsreform, mit der 2005 die Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende auf ein neues Fundament gestellt wurde. Die Reform war von Anbeginn umstritten. Streitpunkte waren sowohl die organisationsrechtliche Zuordnung der Trägerschaft (ARGE, Optionskommunen)...