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By rethinking the role of ideas and morality in policy changes, this book illustrates how the moral economy of activation leads to a permanent behaviourist testing of the unemployed in public debate as well as in local job centres.

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In this lucidly written and theoretically sophisticated book, Hansen offers an analysis of how welfare activation policy is framed, critiqued and justified in France and Denmark...Not only is it an excellent piece of empirical research in itself, this book presents an emergent theoretical approach which presents an important contribution and challenge to the existing literature.” Critical Social Policy

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The active turn(s); PART I: MODELLING; Tests, compromises and policy change; Cities of unemployment; PART II: ACTIVATION REFORMS; From looking backwards to forwards; Turning solutions into ‘structural’ problems; Testing thresholds; Intimate scandals; PART III: PATTERNS; Chemotherapy; Infinite testing.

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      Publisher: Bristol University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/09/2019
      ISBN13: 9781447349969, 978-1447349969
      ISBN10: 1447349962
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      By rethinking the role of ideas and morality in policy changes, this book illustrates how the moral economy of activation leads to a permanent behaviourist testing of the unemployed in public debate as well as in local job centres.

      Trade Review
      In this lucidly written and theoretically sophisticated book, Hansen offers an analysis of how welfare activation policy is framed, critiqued and justified in France and Denmark...Not only is it an excellent piece of empirical research in itself, this book presents an emergent theoretical approach which presents an important contribution and challenge to the existing literature.” Critical Social Policy

      Table of Contents
      The active turn(s); PART I: MODELLING; Tests, compromises and policy change; Cities of unemployment; PART II: ACTIVATION REFORMS; From looking backwards to forwards; Turning solutions into ‘structural’ problems; Testing thresholds; Intimate scandals; PART III: PATTERNS; Chemotherapy; Infinite testing.

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