Social care going market
Institutional and cultural change regarding services for the elderly
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https://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v5i1.52Abstract
Over the last two decades or so, major Western societies have remoulded the institutional set-up by which they are deailing with social risks related to frailty during old age. While the 20th century had brought a transnational tendency towards the establishment of elderly care ‘going public’, the proliferation of more market-based services brings confusion into the societal norm-set underlying the aforementioned tendency. Marketisation has placed the emphasis on economic values engrained in liberal worldviews, leading into a new welfare culture that devaluates universalism and reemphasises the sovereignty of the individual. However, the new cult of the individual produces contradictory signals. Drawing on an encompassing study on the ‘culture of welfare markets’ in elderly care provision, covering two (post-)liberal and two (post-corporatist) welfare regimes (Canada, Britain; France, Germany), the paper looks at these fuzzy developments in order to assess the cultural embeddedness of what can be referred to as the mixed economy of elderly care. The analysis, charting major patterns of both institutional change and public communication around it, elucidates that we currently are facing a permanent struggle between liberal values and (renewed) elements of the ‘going-public-agenda’ proliferating over the 1970s and 1980s, that is, a hybrid and ‘nervous’ cultural configuration in which senior social citizenship remains an issue, albeit on precarious foundations.References
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Clark, D. (2004), Implementing the Third Way. Modernizing Governance and Public Services in Quebec and the UK, in: Public Management Review (6) 4, 493-510.
Clarke, J. (2004), Changing Welfare, Changing States. New Directions in Social Policy. London, Sage.
Dean, J., Goodlad, R. & Rosengaard, A. (2000), Citizenship in the New Welfare Market: The Purposes of Housing Advice Services, in: Journal of Social Policy (29) 2, 229-245.
Esping-Andersen, G. (1990), The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Harris, J. (2004), Consumerism. Social Development or Social Delimitation, in: International Social Work (47) 4, 533-542.
Hendricks, J. & Powell, J. (Eds.) (2009), The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society: A Global Perspective. Berlin/New York, Springer.
Kemshall, H. (2002), Risk, Social Policy and Welfare. Buckingham: Open University Press. Kohli, M. (1987), Retirement and the Moral Economy: A Historical Interpretation of the German Case, in: Journal of Aging Studies (1) 1, 125-144.
Lai, O.-K. (1994), Farewell to Welfare Statism! More Happiness in Welfare Market? Putting Consumption in (Post) Modern Context. International Journal of Social Economics (21) 1, 43-54.
Lash, S., & Urry, J. (1987), The End of Organized Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Le Grand, J. (2007), The Other Unvisible Hand. Delivering Public Services Through Choice and Competition. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Leece, J. & Bornat, J. (Eds.) (2006), Developments in Direct Payments. Bristol: Policy Press Lewis, J. & Surender, R. (Eds.) (2004), Welfare State Change: Towards a Third Way? Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mitchell, W. & Glendinning, C. (2008), Risk and Adult Social Care: Identification, Management and New Policies. What Does UK Research Evidence Tell Us? In: Health, Risk & Society (10) 3, 297-315.
Mullard, M. & Spicker, P. (1998). Social Policy in a Changing Society. London, Routledge.
Oorschot, W. van, Opielka, M. & Pfau-Effinger, B. (Eds.) (2008), Culture and Welfare State. The Value of Social Policy. Cheltenham/New York: Edward Elgar.
Pierson, P. (2001), Coping With Permanent Austerity: Welfare State Restructuring in Affluent Democracies, in: id. (Eds.), The New Politics of the Welfare State: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 410-456.
Sayer, A. (2000), Moral Economy and Political Economy, in: Studies in Political Economy (61) 1, 79-104.
Slater, D. & Tonkiss, F. (2001), Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Smart, B. (2003), Economy, Culture and Society. A Sociological Critique of Neo-liberalism. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Taylor-Gooby, P. (1999), Markets and Motives. Trust and Egoism in Welfare Markets. Journal of Social Policy (28) 1, 97-114.
Taylor-Gooby, P., Larsen, T. & Kananen, J. (2004), Market Means and Welfare Ends: The UK Welfare State Experiment, in: Journal of Social Policy (33) 4, 573-592.
Theobald, H., V. Burau & Blank, R. A. (2007), Governing Homecare. A Cross-national Comparison. Cheltenham, Edwrad Elgar.
Wistow, G., Knapp, M., Hardy, B. & Forder, J. (1996), Social Care Markets. Progress and Prospects. Buckingham: Open University Press.
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2010-04-01
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Bode, I. (2010). Social care going market: Institutional and cultural change regarding services for the elderly. Journal of Comparative Social Work, 5(1), 39–54. https://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v5i1.52
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