Promoting Active Citizenship
Markets and Choice in Scandinavian Welfare
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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.
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.
Offers internationally relevant insights drawn from experimental Scandinavian welfare policies Provides conclusions based on analysis between different sectors, including public and for-profit service providers Addresses the voucher system and competition between schools as a key case study Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Karl Henrik Sivesind
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“Karl Henrik Sivesind and his colleagues have given us a worthy successor to Richard Titmuss’ classic Gift Relationship by providing a serious contemporary analysis of the consequences of different patterns of reliance on nonprofits, for-profits, and states in providing crucial protections against the vagaries of old age, ill-health, and inadequate education, showing in the process how important is the preservation of a common commitment to core values of equal access and universal protection reinforced and protected by a caring state.” (Lester M. Salamon, Johns Hopkins University, USA)
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