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.