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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hellmut Wollmann is Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. His recent publications include Evaluation in Public Sector Reform (2003), Provision of Public Services in Europe (edited with G. Marcou, 2010), and Introduction into Comparative Public Administration (with S. Kuhlmann, 2014).
Ivan Koprić is Professor of Administrative Science and Local Governance at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and President of the Institute of Public Administration in Zagreb.
Gérard Marcou is Professor of Public Law at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Institut de Recherche Juridique de la Sorbonne, France, and Director of GRALE (Groupement de Recherche sur l'Administration Locale en Europe).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Public and Social Services in Europe
Book Subtitle: From Public and Municipal to Private Sector Provision
Editors: Hellmut Wollmann, Ivan Koprić, Gérard Marcou
Series Title: Governance and Public Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57499-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57498-5Published: 29 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57499-2Published: 12 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2524-728X
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7298
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 342
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy