01241pab a2200169 454500 180718b2008 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Bonvin, Jean-Michel Activation policies, new modes of governance and the issue of responsibility 2008 p.367-77. Jul Most activation policies are based on a simplistic conception of responsibility: behaving responsibly coincides with quickly reintegrating the labour market. Local welfare agents are called to push beneficiaries to actively endorse this goal. But the issue of responsibility is much more complex. Drawing on Sen's capability approach, this article suggests that responsibilisation of recipients requires both empowerment and granting them more real freedom of choice on the labour market. Against the present trend toward hypertrophying individual responsibility, it calls for a more equilibrated balance between individual and social responsibility. The objective is not to define an impracticable ideal of responsibility, but to provide a yardstick for assessing activation programmes. - Reproduced. Public administration Social Policy and Society N 78905 78905 78905 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 7, Issue no: 3 AR79365 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR