Overview
- Delivers a unique set of analyses of how the marketization in two local government sectors has evolved and diffused within and across England and Scandinavia in the past four decades
- Highlights how a simple set of reform ideas across country contexts has translated into highly different practices and experiences within Local Governments
- Contributes to discussions about the histories and futures of marketization in an international perspective
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Keywords
- Marketization
- Local Government
- New Public Management
- privatization
- reforms
- comparative research
- Public Private Partnerships
- institutions
- contracting
- Scandinavia
- UK
- austerity
- compulsory competitive tendering
- institutional arrangments
- non-governmental organizations
- procurement
- parks
- roads
- corporatization
- private operators
Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Country Analysis
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Case Studies
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Morten Balle Hansen is Professor at Department of Political Science at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on the management and organization of public sector activities, including diffusion of novel management and leadership models, evaluation and performance management.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marketization in Local Government
Book Subtitle: Diffusion and Evolution in Scandinavia and England
Editors: Andrej Christian Lindholst, Morten Balle Hansen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32478-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32477-3Published: 24 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32480-3Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32478-0Published: 20 December 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 345
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, Governance and Government, Legislative and Executive Politics, European Politics, British Politics, Comparative Politics