One uniform welfare state or a multitude of welfare municipalities? The evolution of local variation in Swedish elder care

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 495-511

  Trydegård, Gun Britt ^a   Thorslund, Mats ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Centralization decentralization; Elder care; Local variation; Universalism; Welfare municipalities

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; DECENTRALIZATION; ELDERLY CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WELFARE ECONOMICS; WELFARE PROVISION;

SWEDEN;

EID: 77955124769     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: 14679515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2010.00725.x     Document Type: Article

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