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Comparative Study of Public and Social Services Provision: Definitions, Concepts and Methodologies

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In the introductory chapter, three distinguishing features of the book are highlighted: First, unlike most available comparative studies that deal separately with public and personal social services, the chapters of this volume comparatively comprise service sectors. Second, its country coverage is distinctly wider than most available studies especially by including Central Eastern European ‘transformation’ countries. Third, in pursuing a ‘developmental’ (historical) approach the book chapters, after discussing service provision in the post-1945 ‘advanced welfare’ state and its subsequent ‘neo-liberal’ (New Public Management, NPM) driven re-organisation (from public/municipal to private sector), focus on the most recent (‘post-NPM’) phase in part marked by a ‘comeback’ of the public/municipal sector (‘remunicipalisation’).

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  1. Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Hellmut Wollmann

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  1. Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt University (HU) Berlin Institute for Social Sciences, Berlin, Germany

    Hellmut Wollmann

  2. University of Zagreb , Zagreb, Croatia

    Ivan Koprić

  3. Universite Paris 1 - Eurequa , Paris, France

    Gérard Marcou

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Wollmann, H. (2016). Comparative Study of Public and Social Services Provision: Definitions, Concepts and Methodologies. In: Wollmann, H., Koprić, I., Marcou, G. (eds) Public and Social Services in Europe. Governance and Public Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57499-2_1

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