Privatizing Welfare Services
Lessons from the Swedish Experiment
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 January 2021
- ISBN 9780198867210
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages262 pages
- Size 225x145x20 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English 81
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Short description:
This book discusses Sweden's extensive experience of privatizing welfare services. The book presents several lessons from the Swedish experience that should be of interest to all democracies seeking to benefit from introducing market elements to health care, education, and elderly care.
MoreLong description:
Focusing on health care, education, and elderly care, Privatizing Welfare Services draws on extensive research on the consequences of introducing market-based mechanisms to deliver welfare services. Empirical evidence over the last few decades is summarized and condensed to policy lessons. How to balance equity and efficiency is a central theme. The book also addresses the challenges of financing the Swedish model of welfare services as well as the importance of management practices and public opinion. The privatization of service production has occurred despite major political controversy between two competing visions for the welfare state. Successful experiments have spread organically to neighbouring municipalities. What was done well in this process and what were the mistakes? The book addresses the fundamental economic challenges, the trends of the future, and the implications for institutional design.
This text is the first in-depth study of this trend in Sweden, one of the most extensive, highly developed welfare states and a system in which direct state provision of services dominated. It also breaks new ground by offering a very careful, balanced assessment of the results of privatization and how outcomes differ in the provision of different types of services, such as care for disabled people and preschool children.
Table of Contents:
Author's Preface
An Introduction to Privatizing Swedish Welfare Services
Quasi-markets
Controlling Public Spending
Anatomy of Welfare Reforms
Profit, Choice and Competition
Management
Public Opinion
Summary and Conclusions
References
