New Private Sector Providers in the Welfare State

• Main Author: Pieper, Jonas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Public policy.; Social policy.; Public administration.; Public Policy.; Social Policy.; Public Administration.

This book provides a study of the rise of private sector providers in the welfare state. It compares for-profit firms as providers of hospital services and pensions and investigates the new private actors in social policy provision, whether they become political actors, and the extent of their power...

Table of Contents:

• 1: Introduction
• 2: Private sector provider power in welfare state politics
• 3: Mapping private sector providers
• 4: Power resources of private sector providers
• 5: Private sector providers and patterns of privatization
• 6: Private sector providers in political processes
• 7: Conclusion.