Call for papers – IRSPM 2018 conference panel, Citizens with Budgets: What role for the State?
Convenors – Catherine Needham, Kelly Hall, Catherine Mangan, University of Birmingham
The individualisation of funding to the citizen is a trend within a range of social policy sectors and across several countries. Much of the attention to date has focused on how this transfer of resources changes the role of the citizen, as they become a commissioner of services, an employer of staff and a bearer of risks. The focus of this panel is on the changing role for the state in a context in which budgets are individualised to citizens. This is a role in which the state may be a regulator and a commissioner, but is also required to be a market steward – or ‘market shaper’ as the Care Act 2014 puts it. Papers are encouraged which can contribute to theorising this role for the state, or exploring empirical cases in which states are engaging with markets for citizen budget-holders.
The IRSPM (International Research Society for Public Management conference) is 11-13 April in Edinburgh. Details on how to submit a paper are here: https://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/irspm/call-for-abstracts/. The deadline is Friday (20th Oct). For more information contact Catherine Needham, [log in to unmask]
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