EAN: 9781137574985

PUBLIC AND SOCIAL SERVICES IN EUROPE GEBUNDEN

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.

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