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This concluding chapter provides a summary of the main findings about private sector providers along three dimensions: political action, power resources, and involvement into welfare state politics. It discusses theoretical implications of these results with regard to private provider power as well as recent theories of welfare state change. It closes with discussing what we can learn from the results politically.
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Pieper, J. (2018). Conclusion. In: New Private Sector Providers in the Welfare State. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62563-8_7
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