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Marketization in local government : diffusion and evolution in Scandinavia and England / Andrej Christian Lindholst, Morten Balle Hansen, editors

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020Description: 1 online resource (354 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783030324780
  • 3030324788
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Marketization in Local Government : Diffusion and Evolution in Scandinavia and EnglandDDC classification:
  • 339.4/7 23
LOC classification:
  • JF1525.M37 2020
Contents:
Part I. Questions, Theory and Methods --- Introduction: Comparing Contemporary Marketization in the Light of the Past --- Organizing Marketization --- Research Design, Materials and Methods --- Introducing the Research Setting: Four Countries and Two Local Services Part II. Country Analysis --- In-House, Contracted Out…or Something Else? Parks and Road Management in England --- Sweden: Local Marketization 1980–2018, Incremental Tendencies and Deviances --- Denmark: The Incremental Way Towards a Deep-Seated Marketization of Service Delivery --- Norway: The Reluctant Adopter of Marketization --- Economic Effects of Contracting Out in Scandinavia, and the Importance of Country Context --- Patterns and Variations of Marketization Compared Part III. Case Studies --- Long-Term Partnership Contracting in Practice: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London --- Experiences with Public–Private Partnerships in Sweden: Balancing Collaboration and Competition --- When Rust Never Sleeps: Marketization as Continuous Organizational Change --- Municipal Enterprise as a Pretext for Marketization of Park Services: Insights from Oslo --- Lessons from Case Studies: Working with Marketization Part IV. Conclusions and Outlook --- Histories and Futures of Marketization
Summary: Marketization is one of the most powerful reform doctrines reshaping the organization of public service delivery throughout the last four decades. This book revisits conventional ideas and models of marketization and compares how these have diffused and evolved across municipalities in England and Scandinavia. The book highlights the paths and impacts of marketization as diverse and dynamic and asks us to reconsider what and how we think about marketization. The content of the book is co-authored by researchers from four countries and builds upon comparable surveys and case-studies from two longstanding 'spearhead' services - parks and roads - for the implementation of marketization. The book appeals to scholars and policy makers with interests in discussions about the history and future of marketization in an international perspective
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Includes index

Part I. Questions, Theory and Methods --- Introduction: Comparing Contemporary Marketization in the Light of the Past --- Organizing Marketization --- Research Design, Materials and Methods --- Introducing the Research Setting: Four Countries and Two Local Services
Part II. Country Analysis --- In-House, Contracted Out…or Something Else? Parks and Road Management in England --- Sweden: Local Marketization 1980–2018, Incremental Tendencies and Deviances --- Denmark: The Incremental Way Towards a Deep-Seated Marketization of Service Delivery --- Norway: The Reluctant Adopter of Marketization --- Economic Effects of Contracting Out in Scandinavia, and the Importance of Country Context --- Patterns and Variations of Marketization Compared
Part III. Case Studies --- Long-Term Partnership Contracting in Practice: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London --- Experiences with Public–Private Partnerships in Sweden: Balancing Collaboration and Competition --- When Rust Never Sleeps: Marketization as Continuous Organizational Change --- Municipal Enterprise as a Pretext for Marketization of Park Services: Insights from Oslo --- Lessons from Case Studies: Working with Marketization
Part IV. Conclusions and Outlook --- Histories and Futures of Marketization

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Marketization is one of the most powerful reform doctrines reshaping the organization of public service delivery throughout the last four decades. This book revisits conventional ideas and models of marketization and compares how these have diffused and evolved across municipalities in England and Scandinavia. The book highlights the paths and impacts of marketization as diverse and dynamic and asks us to reconsider what and how we think about marketization. The content of the book is co-authored by researchers from four countries and builds upon comparable surveys and case-studies from two longstanding 'spearhead' services - parks and roads - for the implementation of marketization. The book appeals to scholars and policy makers with interests in discussions about the history and future of marketization in an international perspective

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