Provides significant insights into the way welfare administration is being internationally transformed. This work pays attention to the effect on welfare clients, staff and agencies.

The book will particularly interest those who want to critically understand the changing interactions between social policy and its administration, their impact on the welfare state, and differences in national experiences.

Introduction: Administering wefare reform & Menno Fenger and Paul Henman
Welfare reform as governance reform: the prospects of governmentality perspective & Paul Henman
Part A: Participants: reforming the agents of welfare delivery
State-third sector partnership frameworks: from administration to participation & Deena White
Shifts in welfare governance: state, market and non-profit sector in four European countries & Menno Fenger
From charity to 'not for profit': changes in the role and structure of voluntary social service agencies & Jo Barnes
Part B: Practices: the welfare governance of street-level practices
'Ending welfare as we know it': welfare reform in the United States & Joel F. Handler
The new governance of Australian welfare: street-level contigencies & Cosmo Howard
The administration of transformation: a case study of implementing welfare reform in the UK & Sharon Wright
Part C: Processes: the changing spaces of welfare governance

Administering global welfare: public management, governance and the new role of INGOs & Gaby Ramia
The fight against unemployment as a main concern of the European social policy: the implications of a new, local level approach & Carla Valadas
From government fragmentation to local governance: welfare reforms and lost opportunities in Italy & Yuri Kazepov and Angela Genova
Administering welfare reforms: reflections & Paul Henman and Menno Fenger.