New public management reforms of the Danish and Swedish welfare states: The role of different social democratic responses

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Green-Pedersen, C
• 署名单位: Aarhus University
• 刊物名称: GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0952-1895
• DOI: 10.1111/1468-0491.00188
• 发表日期: 2002
• 关键词: local-government; health-care; sector; POLITICS; Retrenchment; governance; CHOICE

摘要

This article investigates market-type reforms of the service welfare states in Sweden and Denmark. Sweden has implemented such reforms to a greater extent than Denmark. The explanation should be found in the different responses of the Social Democratic parties to the NPM agenda in general and market-type reforms in particular. In Denmark, the Social Democrats have opposed market-type reforms, whereas in Sweden they have been more open towards these ideas. With this focus, the paper differs from most other writings about variation in the extent of NPM.