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  1. Performance Management, Caseloads and the Frontline Provision of Social Services

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, May 2015, Wiley

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  2. New Welfare, New Policies: Towards Preventive Worker-Directed Active Labour-Market Policies

    Article • Journal of Social Policy, April 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  3. Quasi-markets and the Delivery of Activation - A Frontline Perspective

    Article • March 2015, Wiley

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  4. Welfare-to-Work at the Front Line

    Article • Regions, June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  5. Innovative social and labour market policies in Europe in times of crisis

    Article • International Social Security Review, April 2014, Wiley

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  6. Innovating job activation by involving employers

    Article • International Social Security Review, April 2014, Wiley

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  7. Quasi‐markets and the Delivery of Activation – A Frontline Perspective

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  8. From Dutch Disease to Dutch Fitness? Two Decades of Disability Crisis in the Netherlands

    Article • January 2013, Nature

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  9. Governance of the activation policies in Europe

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, June 2012, Emerald

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  10. The diversity of activation markets in Europe

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, June 2012, Emerald

    Dr Rik van Berkel, Prof. Dr. Fritz Sager

  11. Decentralization and centralization

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, June 2012, Emerald

    Dr Rik van Berkel, Dr Sharon Wright

  12. Activation Work: Policy Programme Administration or Professional Service Provision?

    Article • Journal of Social Policy, March 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  13. The Governance of Active Welfare States in Europe

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  14. The Administration of Income Provision and Activation Services

    Article • January 2011, Nature

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  15. The Governance of Active Welfare States

    Article • January 2011, Nature

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  16. The Local- and Street-Level Production of Social Citizenship: The Case of Dutch Social Assistance

    Article • January 2011, Nature

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  17. The Liberal Governance of a Non-Liberal Welfare State? The Case of the Netherlands

    Article • January 2011, Nature

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  18. The Governance of Active Welfare States in Europe in a Comparative Perspective

    Article • January 2011, Nature

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  19. The Activation Turn in the Netherlands: ‘Home’-grown or Steered by Europe?

    Article • January 2011, Nature

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  20. Professionals without a profession? Redesigning case management in Dutch local welfare agencies

    Article • European Journal of Social Work, December 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  21. The Provision of Income Protection and Activation Services for the Unemployed in ‘Active’ Welfare States. An International Comparison

    Article • Journal of Social Policy, September 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  22. Some Useful Sources

    Article • Social Policy and Society, July 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  23. Introduction: The Governance of Activation

    Article • Social Policy and Society, July 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  24. Review Article: The Governance of Activation

    Article • Social Policy and Society, July 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  25. Individualised service provision in an era of activation and new governance

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, September 2007, Emerald

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  26. Contextualising new modes of governance in activation policies

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, September 2007, Emerald

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  27. New modes of governance in activation policies

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, July 2007, Emerald

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  28. Social Assistance Dynamics in the Netherlands: Exploring the Sustainability of Independence from Social Assistance via Labour Market Inclusion

    Article • Social Policy and Society, March 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  29. NEW MODES OF GOVERNANCE IN ITALY AND THE NETHERLANDS: THE CASE OF ACTIVATION POLICIES

    Article • Public Administration, March 2007, Wiley

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  30. Making it personalIndividualising activation services in the EU

    Article • February 2007, Policy Press

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  31. Individualised activation services in the EU

    Article • February 2007, Policy Press

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  32. The individualisation of activation services in context

    Article • February 2007, Policy Press

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  33. The decentralisation of social assistance in The Netherlands

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, January 2006, Emerald

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  34. The marketization of activation services: a modern panacea? Some lessons from the Dutch experience

    Article • Journal of European Social Policy, November 2005, SAGE Publications

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  35. Active social policies in the EUInclusion through participation?

    Article • September 2002, Policy Press

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  36. The concept of activation

    Article • September 2002, Policy Press

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  37. Introduction

    Article • September 2002, Policy Press

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  38. Activation policies as reflexive social policies

    Article • September 2002, Policy Press

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  39. The concept of inclusion/exclusion and the concept of work

    Article • September 2002, Policy Press

    Dr Rik van Berkel, Professor Colin C Williams

  40. Inclusion through participation? Active social policies in the EU and empirical observations from case studies into types of work

    Article • September 2002, Policy Press

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  41. Active social policies in the EU

    Article • September 2002, JSTOR

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  42. The Activation Approach in Dutch and Belgian Social Policies

    Article • Journal of European Area Studies, May 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  43. Work and inclusion

    Article • Transfer European Review of Labour and Research, February 2001, SAGE Publications

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  44. Workfare in the Netherlands – young unemployed people and the Jobseeker’s Employment Act

    Article • January 2001, Policy Press

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  45. From Dutch Disease to Dutch Fitness? Two Decades of Disability Crisis in the Netherlands

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  46. Fulfilling the promise of professionalism in street-level practice

    Article • JSTOR

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  47. Workfare in the Netherlands:

    Article • JSTOR

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  48. Both sides now: theoretical perspectives on the link between social and HR policies in promoting labour market participation

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Dr Rik van Berkel

  49. Activation policies as reflexive social policies

    Article • JSTOR

    Dr Rik van Berkel