Public and social services in Europe : from public and municipal to private sector provision /: from public and municipal to private sector provision. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Hellmut Wollmann, Ivan Koprić, Gérard Marćou, editors.
• Editors: Wollmann, Hellmut, 1936-; Koprić, Ivan; Marcou, Gérard
• Contents: 1. Comparative study of public and social services provision : definitional, conceptual and methodological frame / Hellmut Wollmann -- 2. The impact of EU law on local public service provision : competition and public service / Gérard Marćou -- 3. What impact have European Court of Justice decisions in the field of local public services provision? / Pierre Bauby and Mihaela Simlie -- 4. Delivering public services in the United Kingdom in a period of austerity / John McEldowney -- 5. Local government public service provision in France : diversification of management patterns and decentralization reforms / Gérard Marćou -- 6. Re-municipalisation revisited : long-term trends in the provision of local public services in Germany / Frank Bönker, Jens Libbe and Hellmut Wollmann -- 7. Local government and the market : the case of public services and care for the elderly in Sweden / Stig Montin -- 8. Local public services in Italy : still fragmentation / Giulio Citroni, Andrea Lippi and Stefania Profeti -- 9. Spanish municipal services delivery : an uncertain scenario / Jaume Magre Ferran and Esther Pano Puey -- 10. From municipal socialism to the sovereign debt crisis : Local services in Greece 1980-2015 / Theodore Tsekos and Athanasia Triantafyllopoulou -- 11. Mixed system : transformation and current trends in the provision of local public services in the Czech and Slovak Republics / Juraj Nemec and Jana Soukopová -- 12. The evolution of local public services provision in Poland / Łukacs Mikuła and Marzena Walaszek -- 13. From municipalisation to centralism : changes in the Hungarian local public service delivery / Tamás M. Horváth -- 14. Local government and local public services in Croatia / Ivan Koprić, Anamarija Musa and Vedran Đulabić -- 15. Local service delivery in Turkey / Ulaş Bayraktar and Çağla Tansug -- 16. Local governments and the energy sector : a comparison of France, Iceland and the United Kingdom / Roselyn Allemand -- 17. Water provision in France, Germany and Switzerland : between convergence and divergence / Eva Lieberherr, Claudine Viard and Carsten Herzberg -- 18. Hospital privatization in Germany and France : marketization without deregulation? / Tanja Klenk and Renate Reiter -- 19. Models of local public service delivery : privatisation, publicisation and the renaissance of the cooperative? / Hartmut Bauer, and Friedrich Markmann -- 20. Institutional variants of local utility services : evidence from several European countries / Giuseppe Grossi and Christoph Reichard -- 21. Public and social services in Europe : from public/municipal to private provision : and reverse? / Hellmut Wollmann.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (342 pages)
• Subjects: 361.94; Municipal services -- Europe; Privatization -- Europe; Local government -- Europe; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services; Local government; Municipal services; Privatization; Europe; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137574992; 1137574992
• Related ISBNs: 9781137574985; 1137574984; 9781349847112; 1349847119
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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