Magnus Paulsen Hansen is Assistant Professor of Political Sociology at Roskilde University. He specializes in the role of ideas and evaluation in the legitimation of welfare state transformations.

“In this well researched and theoretically sophisticated book, Magnus Paulsen Hansen sheds new and important light on the moral economy of activation.” Daniel Béland, McGill University

• The active turn(s);PART I: MODELLING;Tests, compromises and policy change;Cities of unemployment;PART II: ACTIVATION REFORMS;From looking backwards to forwards;Turning solutions into ‘structural’ problems;Testing thresholds;Intimate scandals;PART III: PATTERNS;Chemotherapy;Infinite testing.

Magnus Paulsen Hansen is Assistant Professor of Political Sociology at Roskilde University. He specializes in the role of ideas and evaluation in the legitimation of welfare state transformations.

“In this well researched and theoretically sophisticated book, Magnus Paulsen Hansen sheds new and important light on the moral economy of activation.” Daniel Béland, McGill University

• The active turn(s);PART I: MODELLING;Tests, compromises and policy change;Cities of unemployment;PART II: ACTIVATION REFORMS;From looking backwards to forwards;Turning solutions into ‘structural’ problems;Testing thresholds;Intimate scandals;PART III: PATTERNS;Chemotherapy;Infinite testing.

Magnus Paulsen Hansen is Assistant Professor of Political Sociology at Roskilde University. He specializes in the role of ideas and evaluation in the legitimation of welfare state transformations.

“In this well researched and theoretically sophisticated book, Magnus Paulsen Hansen sheds new and important light on the moral economy of activation.” Daniel Béland, McGill University

• The active turn(s);PART I: MODELLING;Tests, compromises and policy change;Cities of unemployment;PART II: ACTIVATION REFORMS;From looking backwards to forwards;Turning solutions into ‘structural’ problems;Testing thresholds;Intimate scandals;PART III: PATTERNS;Chemotherapy;Infinite testing.