| Description |
1 online resource (354 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Questions, Theory and Methods -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Comparing Contemporary Marketization in the Light of the Past -- Revisiting Marketization in the Public Sector -- First Impressions, Second Thoughts -- A Comparative Approach -- Country Context: The UK and Scandinavia -- Service Context: Local Parks and Road Services as Two Spearhead Services -- Data Materials -- Content and Outline -- Part I -- Part II -- Part III -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2 Organizing Marketization |
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Introduction -- Marketization and Privatization -- Marketization and Economic Theory -- Public Choice Theory and Marketization -- The Principal-Agent Model and Marketization -- The New Institutional Economics, Transaction Costs and Marketization -- Exit, Voice and Loyalty and Marketization -- Contestable Markets and Marketization -- Typology of Goods and Marketization -- Summing up Economic Theory and Marketization -- Sociological and Historical Institutionalism: Diffusion and Path Dependencies -- Sociological Institutionalism: Institutionalized Cognitive Frames Enhancing and Inhibiting Diffusion |
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Historical Institutionalism: The Importance of Path Dependencies -- Institutional Theory and Marketization in Public Management Reforms -- Organizing Marketization and Beyond -- Synthesizing Eight Models of Organizing Marketization -- New Public Management and Its Alternatives -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Research Design, Materials and Methods -- Introduction -- A Comparative Research Strategy -- The INOPS Survey -- Characteristics of Primary Respondents -- Representativeness -- Secondary Data Sources -- Methodological Discussions -- Measurement Equivalence -- Method Biases |
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Case-Studies -- Final Remarks on Methods -- References -- Chapter 4 Introducing the Research Setting: Four Countries and Two Local Services -- Introduction -- Local Park and Road Services -- National Reform Trajectories -- Characteristics of Municipalities -- A Common EU Context -- Summary -- References -- Part II Country Analysis -- Chapter 5 In-House, Contracted Out ... or Something Else? Parks and Road Management in England -- Introduction -- Public Service Delivery in England: 1970s-1990s -- Compulsory Competitive Tendering -- Public-Private Partnership |
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Public Service Delivery in England: Late 1990s-2010s -- The State of Contemporary Parks and Roads and the Legacy of Past Policies -- The Extent of Contracting-Out Parks and Roads Maintenance in England -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6 Sweden: Local Marketization 1980-2018, Incremental Tendencies and Deviances -- Introduction -- Marketization Waves in Sweden, 1980s to 2018 -- Four Decades of Swedish Marketization-What Did We Get? -- Public Sector Reforms in the Swedish Local Park and Road Sectors -- Municipal Park and Road Developments, 1980-2015 |
| 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. Andrej Christian Lindholst is Associate Professor at Department of Political Science at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on marketization and organizational change in the public sector and implications for management, organization and performance. 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 |
| Notes |
Summing Up 40 Years of Local Marketization in Sweden: A Few Initial Lessons |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Government marketing -- Scandinavia
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Government marketing -- England
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Government marketing
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England
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Scandinavia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lindholst, Andrej Christian
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Hansen, Morten Balle
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| ISBN |
9783030324780 |
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3030324788 |
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