Varieties of welfare markets from a street‐level perspective: Comparing long‐term care services in Germany and Israel-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Varieties of welfare markets from a street‐level perspective: Comparing long‐term care services in Germany and Israel

Published:2022-10-05 Issue:2 Volume:83 Page:419-428
ISSN:0033-3352
Container-title:Public Administration Review
language:en
Short-container-title:Public Administration Review

Author:

Cohen Nissim¹^ORCID,Klenk Tanja²,Davidovitz Maayan³^ORCID,Cardaun Sarah⁴

Affiliation:

1. The Division of Public Administration and Policy University of Haifa Haifa Israel

2. Professorship for Public Policy and Public Administration Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg Hamburg Germany

3. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service New York University New York City New York USA

4. Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg Hamburg Germany

Abstract

AbstractHow does the marketization of social service provision impact the practices of street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) towards their clients? To explore this question, we compare the markets for ambulatory long‐term care for the elderly in Germany and Israel, which differ in the latitude of choice offered to clients and the intensity of state regulation. Based on 52 qualitative interviews with SLBs and managers of care providers, our study shows that in both countries, institutional contexts play a significant role in shaping street‐level bureaucracy practices. We found that SLBs and managers in Israel engage in entrepreneurial behavior, whereas their German counterparts adopt administrative practices. By identifying these tendencies as responses to the respective welfare market characteristics, the article makes an important contribution to the field of comparative SLB research and furthers our understanding of the broader implications of the marketization of welfare services.

Publisher

Wiley

Link

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/puar.13549

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