This book presents comparative analyses and accounts of the
institutional changes that have occurred to the local level
delivery of public utilities and personal social services in
countries across Europe. Guided by a common conceptual frame and
written by leading country experts, the book pursues a
"developmental" approach to consider how the public/municipal
sector-centred institutionalization of service delivery (climaxing
in the 1970s) developed through its New Public Management-inspired
and European Union market liberalization-driven restructuring of
the 1980s and early 1990s. The book also discusses the most recent
phase since the late 1990s, which has been marked by further
marketization and privatization of service delivery on the one
hand, and some return to public sector provision
("remunicipalization") on the other. By comprising some 20 European
countries, including Central East European "transformation"
countries as well as the "sovereign debt"-stricken countries of
Southern Europe, the chapters of this volume cover a much broader
cross section of countries than other recent publications on the
same subject.
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