Does Out-Contracting of Welfare Services Promote Active Citizenship?

Sivesind, Karl Henrik; Trætteberg, Håkon Solbu

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55381-8_1

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“…One strategy has been to open up to private providers, combined with free user choice of service provider (Meagher & Szebehely, 2013). The typical approach is to maintain tight public regulation and to more or less fully finance services, with the proviso that public and private providers are allowed to compete in a quasi‐market (Sivesind & Trætteberg, 2017).…”

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Does educational inequality predict exercise of users' choice? Survey evidence from domiciliary care services among elderly in Oslo, Norway

Trætteberg

Fladmoe

2020

Soc Policy Adm

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The traditional goal of equality in services remains at the heart of the Scandinavian welfare model; however, in recent decades, policymakers have also placed increased emphasis on user influence over services. Voice and choice are two channels to achieve this goal. The possibility to give feedback and voicing dissatisfaction to service providers (voice) is a well-established channel of service users' influence, however it is increasingly supplemented by user choice schemes (choice), where one can choose between different public and private service providers. We use the case of domiciliary care for the elderly to examine how the traditional goal of user equality is associated with the growing emphasis on user influence through voice and choice. The analyses are based on user surveys carried out by the municipality in the city of Oslo, which is arguably the only municipality in Norway where user choice plays a significant role in elderly care. Since the municipality subsidizes the private providers, individual economic resources should have less relevance. However, voicing dissatisfaction and choosing between different providers may anticipate cognitive resources that are not equally distributed among the users. The survey data indicate that there is an association between level of education and propensity to exploit all

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Does educational inequality predict exercise of users' choice? Survey evidence from domiciliary care services among elderly in Oslo, Norway

Trætteberg

Fladmoe

2020

Soc Policy Adm

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“…By October 2018, the system was adopted in home-care services by 158 of 290 Swedish municipalities . The marketization discussed has resulted in a 'welfare mix' with different types of providers: public, for-profit and non-profit (Ascoli and Ranci 2002;Sivesind and Traetteberg 2017). 4 The exact configuration of this welfare mix is for the elderly persons to decide (given the precondition that they have been granted elderly care by the municipality's care manager).…”

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Conservation or disappearance? The public provider of home care services in a system of choice

Feltenius

Wide

2021

Public Management Review

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This article aims to analyse the position of the public provider (i.e. share of recipients) of home-care services in Swedish municipalities with marketization: a system of choice. Following the literature, an assumption is that the public provider has difficulties in surviving the competition with private home-care providers. In addition, the relevancy of this assumption could differ between different municipal settings. To test this assumption, we use statistical analysis. The main result is that the public provider is a 'strong player' in most municipalities experiencing marketization. However, there exists a variation in this respect -the position varies between municipalities.

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“…Institutional boundaries allowing for the promotion of egalitarian norms within education may be considered a result of the political ambition of the policy of a welfare state. Looking to history, Sivesind and Traetteberg (2017) argue that the Nordic welfare model differs from the market economy and socialism by combining public benefits, such as an education system for all, with redistribution of economic sources across social classes. It is within this tradition that curricula have been formulated both to create equal opportunities for all, independent of race, sex, class and religion, and to create spaces for individuals to construct their own lives in line with the liberal-democratic tradition (Dale 2011).…”

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“…However, when writing about the Nordic welfare model today, one should keep in mind that it is no longer a hegemonic model due to national differences within the Nordic region and its transformation during the 21st century (Sivesind and Wahlström 2016). Characteristics of this transformation include, according to Sivesind and Traetteberg (2017), a reduction of public debt, simplified and lowered taxes, new pension systems and openness to development of innovative and knowledge-intensive economies. In these economies, private actors act as consultants and provide services on behalf of the state.…”

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An officially endorsed national curriculum: institutional boundaries and ideational concerns

Sivesind

Karseth

2019

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Recently, there has been a notable renewal in nationalisation processes, which has had consequences on public policies and curriculum development in different countries (Winter 2018). There are both pros and cons associated with this development; increased nationalism can favour a kind of populism that hinders a society from adequately acting upon global problems, or national movements can result in domestic unification as people defend their democratic rights using institutional boundaries (Calhoun 2007; Hroch 1996). National movements can, for example, justify public education as an egalitarian project to guarantee democratic rights for all citizens. This was the case for the populist movement that evolved in the last part of the 19 th century within the Nordic countries, where a folk movement served as a counter-force to state regulations that did not take egalitarian values and people's interests into account (Jarning 1998; Lauglo 1995). It is from the viewpoint of relational power developed through local deliberations and public endorsement that this article examines a set of rationales for developing a national curriculum.

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Does Out-Contracting of Welfare Services Promote Active Citizenship?

Cited by 11 publications

References 29 publications

Does educational inequality predict exercise of users' choice? Survey evidence from domiciliary care services among elderly in Oslo, Norway

Does educational inequality predict exercise of users' choice? Survey evidence from domiciliary care services among elderly in Oslo, Norway

Conservation or disappearance? The public provider of home care services in a system of choice

An officially endorsed national curriculum: institutional boundaries and ideational concerns

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