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3rd Doctoral Workshop of the German ESPAnet SectionMax Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), Cologne | November 14th/15th, 2013Welfare state restructuring has resulted in a significant re-calibration of the nexus between the state and the market and has been accompanied by the introduction of welfare markets in many policy fields. On the one hand privatisation and marketisation can be considered as reflecting the decreasing capacities and resources for nation-state governance, and on the other as flexible responses to the problems of growth and changing social risks, responses that are often expected to increase efficiency in welfare production. In the European context, the Services Directive of the European Commission was conceived in 2006 to promote a cross-border market in services. While this directive explicitly excludes certain social services and health care, as a legal framework it alone cannot explain the differences that exist between welfare states and policy fields on the extent of the privatisation and marketisation of social services: for example, the level of marketisation in most European welfare states appears to be higher for health and elderly care than for child care services.We invite submissions of papers from PhD students who focus on the following: the drivers and obstacles to privatisation and marketisation in different national contexts and in different policy fields, including, inter alia, social services and social insurance; the effects these processes have on access, service-quality and financial resources; the problems of (multilevel) governance and public control of marketised social services. (...)Lire la suite : 2013-06-16Deadline: June 15th 2013