Central versus local service regulation: Accounting for diverging old-age care developments in Sweden and Denmark, 1980-2000

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 267-287

  Rauch, Dietmar ^a  

^a Institute for Futures Studies   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Denmark; Inter governmental relations; Old age care; Retrenchment politics; Sweden; Welfare state

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS; SERVICE PROVISION; STANDARD (REGULATION); WELFARE PROVISION;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 43049131476     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: 14679515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2007.00596.x     Document Type: Article

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