This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book analyses the considerable
variation in the shares of private provision for core services in education health and social
services in the Scandinavian countries. The chapters compare countries service areas and the
for-profit non-profit and public sectors. Each focuses on different levels of change: the mix
of welfare providers national laws and regulations governance in municipalities nursing
homes and schools and finally the consequences experienced by the users of the services. The
authors ask which combinations of governance structures service sector providers and user
choice give the best results for active citizenship. Promoting Active Citizenship will be of
interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including Public
Administration and Management Non-Profit Management Social Policy Innovation in Public
Service Social Care and Education and School Research.
