Marketization in Local Government : Diffusion and Evolution in Scandinavia and England /: Diffusion and Evolution in Scandinavia and England. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Andrej Christian Lindholst, Morten Balle Hansen.
• Editors: Lindholst, Andrej Christian; Balle Hansen, Morten
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Marketization Comparing Contemporary Marketization in the Light of the Past. Andrej Christian Lindholst, Morten Balle Hansen -- 2. Organizing marketization. Morten Balle Hansen, Andrej Christian Lindholst, Carsten Greve -- 3. Research design, materials and methods. Andrej Christian Lindholst, Morten Balle Hansen, Ylva Noren Bretzer, Merethe Dotterud Leiren, Nicola Dempsey -- 4. Researching marketization in context: Four countries and two local services. Andrej Christian Lindholst, Morten Balle Hansen, Ylva Noren Bretzer, Merethe Dotterud Leiren, Nicola Dempsey -- 5. England: In-house, contracted out... or something else? Nicola Dempsey, Mel Burton, Johanna Selin -- 6. Sweden: Local marketization 1980-2018, incremental tendencies and deviances. Ylva Noren Bretzer, Bengt Persson, Thomas B. Randrup -- 7. Denmark: The incremental way toward a deep-seated marketized service delivery. Andrej Christian Lindholst -- 8. Norway: The reluctant adopter of marketization. Merethe Dotterud Leiren, Julie Runde Krogstad, Ingjerd Solfjeld -- 9. Economic effects from competitive tendering in Scandinavia and the importance of country context. Andrej Christian Lindholst, Ole Helby Petersen, Kurt Houlberg -- 10. Patterns and variations of marketization compared. Andrej Christian Lindholst, Morten Balle Hansen, Ylva Noren Bretzer, Nicola Dempsey, Merethe Dotterud Leiren -- 11. England: Long-term partnership contracting in practice: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London. Nicola Dempsey, Claudia Martinez Velarde, Mel Burton -- 12. Sweden: Experiences with public-private partnerships: Balancing collaboration and competition. Anders Kristoffersson, Andrej Christian Lindholst, Bengt Persson, Thomas B. Randrup -- 13. Denmark: When rust never sleeps: Marketization as continuous organizational change. Andrej Christian Lindholst, Thomas Haase Jensen, Troels Høgfeldt Kjems -- 14. Norway: Municipal enterprise as pretext for marketization of park services: Insights from Oslo services. Ingjerd Solfjeld, Merethe Dotterud Leiren -- 15. Lessons from case studies: Working with marketization. Andrej Christian Lindholst, Nicola Dempsey, Thomas Barfoed Randrup, Ingjerd Solfjeld -- 16. The histories and futures of marketization. Morten Balle Hansen, Andrej Christian Lindholst, Carsten Greve.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer International Publishing Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (354 pages)
• Subjects: 352.748; Political planning; Political science; Legislative bodies; Europe--Politics and government; Great Britain--Politics and government; Comparative government; Public Policy; Governance and Government; Legislative and Executive Politics; European Politics; British Politics; Comparative Politics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3030324788; 9783030324780
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