Journals
There is a large variety of journals, from various disciplines or sub-disciplines that have published articles on the issue of the governance of activation. Limiting ourselves to English language journals, the following are useful:
• Social policy journals, such as Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Social Policy, Critical Social Policy, Social Policy and Administration, International Social Security Review and International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.
• Public policy, public management and public administration journals, such as Public Administration, Public Administration Review, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
• Sociological journals, such as European Societies.
• Social work and social services journals, such as Social Service Review.
• Political science journals, such as Australian Journal of Political Science.
• Economic journals, such as Local Economy, Australian Journal of Labour Economics.
Websites
A large range of websites contains reports, publications, publication lists etc., which are of relevance for the area of the governance of activation:
• Websites of international policy making or policy advising bodies, such as the Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities – EU Commission (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/employment_social/index_en.htm); the OECD, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (www.oecd.org/department/0,3355,en_2649_33729_1_1_1_1_1,00.html); the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research (www.euro.centre.org).
• The websites of the yearly conferences of various international research groups such as the Network for European Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet: www.espanet.org); the European Group on Organisational Studies (EGOS: www.egosnet.org); the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA: www.iiasiisa.be/egpa/agacc.htm); the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC19) of the International Sociological Association (www.isa-sociology.org/rc19.htm); and the International Social Security Association (ISSA: www.issa.int/engl/homef.htm)
• Websites of (inter)national researchers’ networks and international research projects, such as the Active Social Policies European Network (ASPEN: http://aspen.fss.uu.nl/en/index.php); the Nordic Centre of Excellence Reassessing the Nordic Welfare Model (REASSESS, research strand 7 on Activation and New Governance Structures: www.reassess.no/index.gan?id=14525&subid=0); Reform of Public Employment Service Quorum (RESQ: www.resqresearch.com); the EU's 6th Framework Programme's Network of Excellence Reconciling Work and Welfare (RECWOWE: http://recwowe.eu/); Eurocap/Capright, European Research Program on Social Dialogue, Employment and Territories. Toward a European Politics of Capabilities (www.idhe.ens-cachan.fr/Eurocap); the Danish Employment Policies Researchers’ Network (BPFnet: http://www.bpfnet.dk/).
• Websites of national ministries of Employment, Social Affairs, Social Security etcetera (for links, see the ASPEN-website mentioned above);
• A variety of websites publishing overviews of national research reports and studies, often in local language. Examples are, for Germany the website of the Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (www.iab.de), for the UK the website of the resource centre of the British Department for Work and Pensions (www.dwp.gov.uk/resourcecentre/), and for the Netherlands the website of the Raad voor Werk en Inkomen (www.rwi.nl/nl-NL/Publicaties).
