Renate Minas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4430218 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Renate Minas |
| NOMBRES | Renate |
| APELLIDO | Minas |
| FIRMA | MINAS R |
| AFILIACIONES | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4571-9399 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Complementary policy fields in action
Different social policies may impact on the effectiveness of one another, yet the few existing results on such complementarities largely stem from macro-level studies and little is known about the actual character of such policy complementarities. A more direct and potentially illuminating approach to studying complementarity is instead to investigate a specific group needing support from several policy areas. One such group is young people who a…
Diverging Scandinavian paths towards service coordination and potential consequences for youth with complex problems
Coordinated services are often seen as a solution to complex problems spanning organisational boundaries, such as preventing young people from being marginalised in education and employment. Based on secondary sources, we compare the three Scandinavian countries' paths from traditional public administration to new public management and then towards new public governance with its focus on service coordination. Our analysis shows: (A) Although the …
Reform Pathways for Integrating Employment Assistance to Marginalized Groups
Service integration—understood as cooperation and collaboration between sectors and organizations—is commonly employed in European countries as a response to internal fragmentation of social security systems. In this chapter, drawing on research from Europe, we show how countries differ on central dimensions regarding service integration aimed at the unemployed. Further, we discuss how service integration depends on countries’ historical and inst…
A scoping review of research on coordinated pathways towards employment for youth in vulnerable life situations
For youth in vulnerable life situations, pathways to employment can be challenging, suggesting the need for coordinated services. The aim of this review is to explore the existing research on coordinated services for youth in vulnerable life situations. Considering the heterogenous nature of the literature, we adopted a scoping review methodology. We selected works from a base of 92 papers on youth, coordinated services, and pathways to work that…
Effective local governance assisting vulnerable groups
Youth not in employment, education or training (NEETs) have been analyzed from either individual or macro‐structural perspectives, while policy discussions have emphasized national policy. This disregards (i) the substantial variation in NEET rates within countries, and (ii) the importance of local governance for this variation. We examine these issues in Sweden through the lens of interactive governance. Theoretically, four aspects of collective…
Reaching without outreaching
Youth unemployment is a global issue, with supranational actors calling for policy responses, including early interventions such as outreach. This article examines how EU member states have translated the EU youth guarantee (YG) recommendation, focusing on early interventions in the form of outreach. Combining quantitative content analysis with corpus linguistics, we examined the YG implementation plans of 19 EU member states having differing ins…
The governance of poverty
Social assistance benefits are the last resort in national social protection systems, and decentralizing reforms leading to increasing local discretion over implementation of national legislation was an international trend frequently referred to as devolution. More recent reforms have instead often implied recentralization and/or involved mandatory institutional cooperation between welfare agencies located at different hierarchical levels. In con…
Actors and Governance Arrangements in the Field of Social Assistance
This chapter provides a more detailed account of the wide array of actors involved in governing social assistance. Social assistance policies in Europe display a number of features that witness an area characterised by fragmentation and authority shared by different political-administrative tiers. The chapter presents a structured inventory of who is involved at what level and in that respect try to capture the relevant political-administrative s…
Decentraliserad välfärd eller medborgerliga rättigheter? Om omfördelning av makt och ansvar mellan stat och kommun
I Sverige, liksom i övriga Europa, har det över de senaste decennierna skett en överföring av makt och ansvar från nationalstat till lokalsamhälle. Detta reser frågor om demokrati, nationellt garanterade medborgerliga rättigheter och betydelsen av kommunala variationer i välfärdstjänsternas tillgänglighet och kvalitet. I artikeln analyseras utvecklingen i Sverige under de senaste decennierna mot bakgrund av förändringar i lagstiftning och former …
Organizing local social service measures to counteract long-term social assistance receipt. What works? Experiences from Sweden
Active labour market policies and programs (ALMPs) have over the last decades been established as main instruments to promote the transition from welfare to work. In this article we study strategies employed by Swedish municipalities to help recipients ending spells of social assistance take-up. By using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data we try to identify which approaches stand out as more successful than others with respect to …
The concept of integrated services in different welfare states from a life course perspective
The concept of integrated services is a common feature of current social policy discussions. It is often argued that social support systems have not evolved to cope with the complexity of individuals’ needs. This is deemed true for a variety of interrelated difficulties that cut across traditional welfare programmes and life course lines. This article examines the efforts of integrated services to bridge policy areas such as social policy, labour…
One‐stop shops
The fragmentation of social security systems has emerged as a policy problem in W estern E urope, resulting in the emergence of integrated service models, for example so‐called one‐stop shops. Bridging several policy domains, integrated services can be assumed to affect the institutional structure of benefits and services, such as entitlement criteria, target groups or governance processes. This article focuses on integrated service models that p…
Decentralization and centralization
Purpose The purpose of this article is to examine the governance of activation in relation to the decentralization and centralization of activation for social assistance recipients in Sweden, The Netherlands and the UK. Design/methodology/approach This paper outlines broad trends in the governance of activation policies in Europe, focusing on processes of decentralization and centralization in Sweden (characterized by a context of shifting nation…
Decentralization and Back to Centralization
Labour-market policy reform has a long tradition in Sweden. With Sweden as a pioneer, Nordic governments introduced active labour-market policies early in the twentieth century and relied on these to facilitate structural changes in the economy. A significant feature of Swedish labour-market policy since then has been extensive state intervention. With the deep economic recession and massive increase in unemployment in the early 1990s, the condit…
Social expenditures and public administration
Minas R. Social expenditures and public administration: are local social assistance costs in Sweden a matter of organisation? Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 215–224 © 2009 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This study examines the connection between organisational factors and local social assistance expenditures in Swedish municipalities. The organisation of social assi…
Intake strategies
This article looks at how the intake of new social assistance clients is organised in Sweden and which factors affect the existence of special intake units, using interview and register data from 100 Swedish municipalities. The discussion is organised along two distributional principles: that of general access for all citizens and that of social assistance only to those who are in need. The results show that different intake types can be distingu…
Sifting the wheat from the chaff—the organization of telephone intake and the selection of social assistance inquirers in Sweden
In Sweden, the initial contact between help-seeking people and a social welfare office normally takes place over the telephone, with designated intake officers handling those aiming to apply for social assistance. Citizens seeking help are here sorted according to various eligibility criteria as well as according to different intake routines. The outcome of the sorting process is that some receive an appointment for a further assessment while oth…
One‐stop shops
The fragmentation of social security systems has emerged as a policy problem in W estern E urope, resulting in the emergence of integrated service models, for example so‐called one‐stop shops. Bridging several policy domains, integrated services can be assumed to affect the institutional structure of benefits and services, such as entitlement criteria, target groups or governance processes. This article focuses on integrated service models that p…
Decentralization and centralization
Purpose The purpose of this article is to examine the governance of activation in relation to the decentralization and centralization of activation for social assistance recipients in Sweden, The Netherlands and the UK. Design/methodology/approach This paper outlines broad trends in the governance of activation policies in Europe, focusing on processes of decentralization and centralization in Sweden (characterized by a context of shifting nation…
The governance of poverty
Social assistance benefits are the last resort in national social protection systems, and decentralizing reforms leading to increasing local discretion over implementation of national legislation was an international trend frequently referred to as devolution. More recent reforms have instead often implied recentralization and/or involved mandatory institutional cooperation between welfare agencies located at different hierarchical levels. In con…
Intake strategies
This article looks at how the intake of new social assistance clients is organised in Sweden and which factors affect the existence of special intake units, using interview and register data from 100 Swedish municipalities. The discussion is organised along two distributional principles: that of general access for all citizens and that of social assistance only to those who are in need. The results show that different intake types can be distingu…
The concept of integrated services in different welfare states from a life course perspective
The concept of integrated services is a common feature of current social policy discussions. It is often argued that social support systems have not evolved to cope with the complexity of individuals’ needs. This is deemed true for a variety of interrelated difficulties that cut across traditional welfare programmes and life course lines. This article examines the efforts of integrated services to bridge policy areas such as social policy, labour…
Organizing local social service measures to counteract long-term social assistance receipt. What works? Experiences from Sweden
Active labour market policies and programs (ALMPs) have over the last decades been established as main instruments to promote the transition from welfare to work. In this article we study strategies employed by Swedish municipalities to help recipients ending spells of social assistance take-up. By using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data we try to identify which approaches stand out as more successful than others with respect to …
Social expenditures and public administration
Minas R. Social expenditures and public administration: are local social assistance costs in Sweden a matter of organisation? Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 215–224 © 2009 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This study examines the connection between organisational factors and local social assistance expenditures in Swedish municipalities. The organisation of social assi…
Sifting the wheat from the chaff—the organization of telephone intake and the selection of social assistance inquirers in Sweden
In Sweden, the initial contact between help-seeking people and a social welfare office normally takes place over the telephone, with designated intake officers handling those aiming to apply for social assistance. Citizens seeking help are here sorted according to various eligibility criteria as well as according to different intake routines. The outcome of the sorting process is that some receive an appointment for a further assessment while oth…
Effective local governance assisting vulnerable groups
Youth not in employment, education or training (NEETs) have been analyzed from either individual or macro‐structural perspectives, while policy discussions have emphasized national policy. This disregards (i) the substantial variation in NEET rates within countries, and (ii) the importance of local governance for this variation. We examine these issues in Sweden through the lens of interactive governance. Theoretically, four aspects of collective…
Sifting the wheat from the chaff—the organization of telephone intake and the selection of social assistance inquirers in Sweden
In Sweden, the initial contact between help-seeking people and a social welfare office normally takes place over the telephone, with designated intake officers handling those aiming to apply for social assistance. Citizens seeking help are here sorted according to various eligibility criteria as well as according to different intake routines. The outcome of the sorting process is that some receive an appointment for a further assessment while oth…
Intake strategies
This article looks at how the intake of new social assistance clients is organised in Sweden and which factors affect the existence of special intake units, using interview and register data from 100 Swedish municipalities. The discussion is organised along two distributional principles: that of general access for all citizens and that of social assistance only to those who are in need. The results show that different intake types can be distingu…
Social expenditures and public administration
Minas R. Social expenditures and public administration: are local social assistance costs in Sweden a matter of organisation? Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 215–224 © 2009 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This study examines the connection between organisational factors and local social assistance expenditures in Swedish municipalities. The organisation of social assi…
Decentralization and Back to Centralization
Labour-market policy reform has a long tradition in Sweden. With Sweden as a pioneer, Nordic governments introduced active labour-market policies early in the twentieth century and relied on these to facilitate structural changes in the economy. A significant feature of Swedish labour-market policy since then has been extensive state intervention. With the deep economic recession and massive increase in unemployment in the early 1990s, the condit…
Decentralization and centralization
Purpose The purpose of this article is to examine the governance of activation in relation to the decentralization and centralization of activation for social assistance recipients in Sweden, The Netherlands and the UK. Design/methodology/approach This paper outlines broad trends in the governance of activation policies in Europe, focusing on processes of decentralization and centralization in Sweden (characterized by a context of shifting nation…
One‐stop shops
The fragmentation of social security systems has emerged as a policy problem in W estern E urope, resulting in the emergence of integrated service models, for example so‐called one‐stop shops. Bridging several policy domains, integrated services can be assumed to affect the institutional structure of benefits and services, such as entitlement criteria, target groups or governance processes. This article focuses on integrated service models that p…
Decentraliserad välfärd eller medborgerliga rättigheter? Om omfördelning av makt och ansvar mellan stat och kommun
I Sverige, liksom i övriga Europa, har det över de senaste decennierna skett en överföring av makt och ansvar från nationalstat till lokalsamhälle. Detta reser frågor om demokrati, nationellt garanterade medborgerliga rättigheter och betydelsen av kommunala variationer i välfärdstjänsternas tillgänglighet och kvalitet. I artikeln analyseras utvecklingen i Sverige under de senaste decennierna mot bakgrund av förändringar i lagstiftning och former …
Organizing local social service measures to counteract long-term social assistance receipt. What works? Experiences from Sweden
Active labour market policies and programs (ALMPs) have over the last decades been established as main instruments to promote the transition from welfare to work. In this article we study strategies employed by Swedish municipalities to help recipients ending spells of social assistance take-up. By using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data we try to identify which approaches stand out as more successful than others with respect to …
The concept of integrated services in different welfare states from a life course perspective
The concept of integrated services is a common feature of current social policy discussions. It is often argued that social support systems have not evolved to cope with the complexity of individuals’ needs. This is deemed true for a variety of interrelated difficulties that cut across traditional welfare programmes and life course lines. This article examines the efforts of integrated services to bridge policy areas such as social policy, labour…
Actors and Governance Arrangements in the Field of Social Assistance
This chapter provides a more detailed account of the wide array of actors involved in governing social assistance. Social assistance policies in Europe display a number of features that witness an area characterised by fragmentation and authority shared by different political-administrative tiers. The chapter presents a structured inventory of who is involved at what level and in that respect try to capture the relevant political-administrative s…
The governance of poverty
Social assistance benefits are the last resort in national social protection systems, and decentralizing reforms leading to increasing local discretion over implementation of national legislation was an international trend frequently referred to as devolution. More recent reforms have instead often implied recentralization and/or involved mandatory institutional cooperation between welfare agencies located at different hierarchical levels. In con…
Reaching without outreaching
Youth unemployment is a global issue, with supranational actors calling for policy responses, including early interventions such as outreach. This article examines how EU member states have translated the EU youth guarantee (YG) recommendation, focusing on early interventions in the form of outreach. Combining quantitative content analysis with corpus linguistics, we examined the YG implementation plans of 19 EU member states having differing ins…
Effective local governance assisting vulnerable groups
Youth not in employment, education or training (NEETs) have been analyzed from either individual or macro‐structural perspectives, while policy discussions have emphasized national policy. This disregards (i) the substantial variation in NEET rates within countries, and (ii) the importance of local governance for this variation. We examine these issues in Sweden through the lens of interactive governance. Theoretically, four aspects of collective…
Reform Pathways for Integrating Employment Assistance to Marginalized Groups
Service integration—understood as cooperation and collaboration between sectors and organizations—is commonly employed in European countries as a response to internal fragmentation of social security systems. In this chapter, drawing on research from Europe, we show how countries differ on central dimensions regarding service integration aimed at the unemployed. Further, we discuss how service integration depends on countries’ historical and inst…
A scoping review of research on coordinated pathways towards employment for youth in vulnerable life situations
For youth in vulnerable life situations, pathways to employment can be challenging, suggesting the need for coordinated services. The aim of this review is to explore the existing research on coordinated services for youth in vulnerable life situations. Considering the heterogenous nature of the literature, we adopted a scoping review methodology. We selected works from a base of 92 papers on youth, coordinated services, and pathways to work that…
Complementary policy fields in action
Different social policies may impact on the effectiveness of one another, yet the few existing results on such complementarities largely stem from macro-level studies and little is known about the actual character of such policy complementarities. A more direct and potentially illuminating approach to studying complementarity is instead to investigate a specific group needing support from several policy areas. One such group is young people who a…
Diverging Scandinavian paths towards service coordination and potential consequences for youth with complex problems
Coordinated services are often seen as a solution to complex problems spanning organisational boundaries, such as preventing young people from being marginalised in education and employment. Based on secondary sources, we compare the three Scandinavian countries' paths from traditional public administration to new public management and then towards new public governance with its focus on service coordination. Our analysis shows: (A) Although the …
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