Social Impact Bonds

New forms of public/private partnerships bring financial interests into public service delivery.  In the social service sector, these social impact bonds have been heralded as a means to enhance collaboration in service delivery. But they also threaten to narrow social rights. 

 

Publications

Tse, Allison and Mildred E. Warner 2020. “Comparing Policy Outputs and Outcomes: Does SIB Market Discipline Narrow Social Rights?” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 22(2): 134-152. DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2019.1609789

Tse, Allison E. and Mildred E. Warner 2020. “The Razor’s Edge: Social Impact Bonds and the Financialization of Early Childhood Services,” Journal of Urban Affairs, 42(6): 816-832. http://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2018.1465347

Warner, Mildred E., (2020). “Do SIBs make markets in the welfare system? Should they? For whom?” Public Money and Management, 40(3): 189-190. DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2020.1714296

Tan, Stephanie, Alec Fraser, Neil McHugh and Mildred Warner, 2021. “Widening perspectives on Social Impact Bonds,” Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 24:1, 1-10. Introduction to special issue doi.org/10.1080/17487870.2019.1568249

WEBINARS

GO Lab, Oxford University, Social Impact Bonds September 2019. Panel discussion: Can't get you out of my head: Overly fixated on the SIB tool? Streamed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3129&v=-bwaUrJNZPM (48 minutes in).

GO Lab, Oxford University, Social Impact Bonds September 2018. Head to head debate with Toby Eccles of Social Finance, Making Markets in the Welfare System, streamed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7g2diXVxVc&t=1287s

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