The choice revolution: Privatization of Swedish welfare services in the 1990s

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-155

  Blomqvist, Paula ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Childcare; Elder care; Health care; Primary education; Privatization; Reform; Social policy; Sweden; Welfare state

Indexed keywords

PRIVATIZATION; SERVICE PROVISION; SOCIAL POLICY; WELFARE PROVISION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 1842431387     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2004.00382.x     Document Type: Article

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