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100			_aBonvin, Jean-Michel
245			_aActivation policies, new modes of governance and the issue of responsibility
260			_c2008
300			_ap.367-77.
362			_aJul
520			_aMost 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.
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aSocial Policy and Society
908			_aN
909			_a78905
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