Public and Social Services in Europe

1. Comparative Study of Public and Social Services Provision: Definitions, Concepts and Methodologies
Hellmut Wollmann

2. The Impact of EU Law on Local Public Service Provision: Competition and Public Service
Gérard Marćou

3. What Impact Have the European Court of Justice Decisions Had on Local Public Services?
Pierre Bauby, Mihaela M. Similie

4. Delivering Public Services in the United Kingdom in a Period of Austerity
John McEldowney

5. Local Government Public Service Provision in France: Diversification of Management Patterns and Decentralisation Reforms
Gérard Marćou

6. Remunicipalisation Revisited: Long-Term Trends in the Provision of Local Public Services in Germany
Frank Bönker, Jens Libbe, Hellmut Wollmann

7. Local Government and the Market. The Case of Public Services and Care for the Elderly in Sweden
Stig Montin

8. Local Public Services in Italy: Still Fragmentation
Giulio Citroni, Andrea Lippi, Stefania Profeti

9. Delivery of Municipal Services in Spain: An Uncertain Picture
Jaume Magre Ferran, Esther Pano Puey

10. From Municipal Socialism to the Sovereign Debt Crisis: Local Services in Greece 1980–2015
Theodore N. Tsekos, Athanasia Triantafyllopoulou

11. Mixed System: Transformation and Current Trends in the Provision of Local Public Services in the Czech and Slovak Republics
Juraj Nemec, Jana Soukopová

12. The Evolution of Local Public Service Provision in Poland
Łukasz Mikuła, Marzena Walaszek

13. From Municipalisation to Centralism: Changes to Local Public Service Delivery in Hungary
Tamás M. Horváth

14. Local Government and Local Public Services in Croatia
Ivan Koprić, Anamarija Musa, Vedran Đulabić

15. Local Service Delivery in Turkey
Ulaş Bayraktar, Çağla Tansug

16. Local Government and the Energy Sector: A Comparison of France, Iceland and the United Kingdom
Roselyne Allemand, Magali Dreyfus, Magnús Árni Skjöld Magnússon, John McEldowney

17. Water Provision in France, Germany and Switzerland: Convergence and Divergence
Eva Lieberherr, Claudine Viard, Carsten Herzberg

18. Hospital Privatisation in Germany and France: Marketisation Without Deregulation?
Tanja Klenk, Renate Reiter

19. Models of Local Public Service Delivery: Privatisation, Publicisation and the Renaissance of the Cooperative?
Hartmut Bauer, Friedrich Markmann

20. Variance in the Institutions of Local Utility Services: Evidence from Several European Countries
Giuseppe Grossi, Christoph Reichard

21. Public and Social Services in Europe: From Public and Municipal to Private Provision—And Reverse?
Hellmut Wollmann

Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, Public Policy