The privatization of urban services in Europe
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The privatization of urban services in Europe
（Social change in Western Europe）
Pinter, 1997
- : pbk
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Privatisation des services urbains en Europe
The privatisation of urban services in Europe
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Bibliography: p. [213]-220
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Municipal governments are trying increasingly to offload urban services in response to various factors. Services are becoming ever more costly to manage; and governments are influenced by the spread of free market doctrine, fiscal pressure, and bids from international concerns inducing them to transfer responsibility for delivering services to the private sector. This book discusses the transformation that has taken place in the urban services sector, showing that the general pattern, though universal, has varied in some respects - a degree of ambivalence in France, strong advocacy and commitment in Britain, and a consensus for shared management in Germany. Meanwhile, confronted by these three models, Spain, eastern Europe (in the shape of Hungary and Poland) and Latin America have yet to decide what course to take.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - the expansion of the market, D. Lorrain
- markets and the public services, K. Walsh
- the economy of networks, N. Curien
- the privatization of urban services in Britain, G. Stoker
- the privatization of urban services in Germany, M. Reidenbach
- France - silent change, D. Lorrain
- the privatization of public services in Spain, C. Garcia
- transnationalization in Latin America, H. Coing
- local services in Poland in the wake of public provision, P. Swianiewicz
- the privatization of urban services in Hungary, T. Fleischer
- privatization, urban government and the citizen - some conclusions, G. Stoker.
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