RESq: Reform of Employment Services quorum

 

Steering Group

Brodkin, E Z (Evelyn)

Research Areas

• Government: Bureaucracy, policy implementation, politics of the welfare state, public policy, social politics
• Poverty & Income: Social policy, politics of the welfare state
• Organizations: Public management, contracting, policy delivery, accountability
• Welfare: Welfare policy and administration, welfare reform, politics of the welfare state

Current Projects

• Co-director of the Project on the Public Economy of Work that aims to explain how welfare law and the structure of lower-wage work are creating a new public economy of work. The project examines how evolving organizational arrangements and bureaucratic practices are shaping this new public economy in the context of concentrated urban poverty. As part of that project, she is investigating the street-level implementation of work-based reforms in Chicago.

Notable Publications

• Brodkin, E Z. (2009). Human Service Organizations as Political Institutions in Y. Hasenfeld, ed., Human Services as Complex Organizations.
• Brodkin, E Z. (2009). Social Policy and Management in the U.S.: The Uncertain Politics of Reform. in M. Pardo and E. Velasco eds., La Nueva Gerencia Publica en América del Norte: Tendencias Actuales de la Reforma Administrativa en Canada, Estados Unidos y México.
• Brodkin, E Z and Majmundar, M. (2008). Organizations and exclusion: An inquiry into bureaucratic proceduralism. Working paper #08-05, National Poverty Center, University of Michigan.
• Brodkin, E Z. (2008). "Accountability in Street-level Bureaucracies: Issues in the Analysis of Organizational Practice." . International Journal of Public Administration
• Brodkin, E Z. (2007). "Bureaucracy Redux: Management Reformism and the Welfare State." . Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory(17), 1-17.
• Brodkin, E Z and Majmundar, M. (2007). "Bureaucratic Proceduralism: A Study of Welfare Exits". Harris School Working Paper
• Brodkin, E Z. (2006). "Does Good Politics Make for Good Practice? Reflections on Welfare-to-Work in the U.S.". In G. Marston, P. Henman and C. McDonald (Eds.), Refereed Conference Proceedings: The Politics and Practice of Welfare to Work.
• Brodkin, E Z. (2005). "Toward a Contractual Welfare State? The Case of Work Activation in the U.S.". In Westerveld M and Sol, CCAM (Eds.), Contractualism in Employment Services: A New Form of Welfare State Governance. .
• Brodkin, E Z. (2005). "Welfare Administration." . In G. Mink and A.O. Connor (Eds.), Poverty and Social Welfare in America: An Encyclopedia.
• Brodkin, E Z, Fuqua C. and Waxman, E. (2005). Accessing the Safety Net: Administrative Barriers to Public Benefits in Metropolitan Chicago.
• Sol, CCAM and Brodkin, E Z. (2004). Big cities’ experience with contracts as a mechanism to move people from welfare to work. Paper for TLM meeting at Erasmus University Rotterdam April 26-27.

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