Naslov
Public and Social Services in Europe: from Public and Municipal to Private Sector Provision
(Public and Social Services in Europe From Public and Municipal to Private Sector Provision)

Urednik/ci
Wollmann, Hellmut ; Koprić, Ivan ; Marcou, Gérard

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija knjige
Uredničke knjige, monografija, znanstvena

Izdavač
Palgrave Macmillan

Grad
London : Delhi

Godina
2016

Stranica
XVIII, 342

ISBN
978-1-137-57498-5

Ključne riječi
comparative analyses, institutional changes, local level, public utilities, social services

Sažetak
This book presents comparative analyses and accounts of the institutional changes that have occurred to the local level delivery of public utilities and personal social services in countries across Europe. Guided by a common conceptual frame and written by leading country experts, the book pursues a “developmental” approach to consider how the public/municipal sector-centred institutionalization of service delivery (climaxing in the 1970s) developed through its New Public Management-inspired and European Union market liberalization-driven restructuring of the 1980s and early 1990s. The book also discusses the most recent phase since the late 1990s, which has been marked by further marketization and privatization of service delivery on the one hand, and some return to public sector provision (“remunicipalization”) on the other. By comprising some 20 European countries, including Central East European “transformation” countries as well as the “sovereign debt”-stricken countries of Southern Europe, the chapters of this volume cover a much broader cross section of countries than other recent publications on the same subject.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pravo

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