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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editors -- List of Tables -- 1 Does Out-Contracting of Welfare Services Promote Active Citizenship? -- Introduction -- Comparing Service Areas and Sectors -- The Concept of Active Citizenship -- Fundamental Sector Differences -- Governance Through Contracting or User Choice -- Outline of the Book and Its Chapters -- Appendix: Methods and Data Collection -- Comparative Case Studies -- Data Collection -- References -- 2 The Changing Roles of For-Profit and Nonprofit Welfare Provision in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark -- Introduction -- Divergence in Welfare Provider Mix among the Scandinavian Countries -- Denmark: Relatively Stable Welfare Provider Mix and a Large Nonprofit Welfare Share -- Sweden: Strong Growth in For-Profit Welfare -- Norway: A Stable Nonprofit Share of Welfare Employment -- Nonprofit Stagnation and For-Profit Growth -- Why is the Mix of Welfare Providers in the Scandinavian Countries Diverging? -- Appendix -- References -- 3 Education and Elderly Care in Denmark, Norway and Sweden: National Policies and Legal Frameworks for Private Providers -- Introduction -- Three Government Models -- The EU Public Procurement Directive and Its Implementation at the National Level -- National Implementation of the EU Public Procurement Directive -- The Importance of the EU Public Procurement Directive -- National Policies on School and Elderly Care12 -- Nonpublic Producers of Primary and Lower Secondary Education, 13 -- Nonpublic Producers of Institution-Based Elderly Care15 -- Discussion: A Unified Scandinavian Model? -- Concluding Remarks: The Role of Politics -- References -- 4 Towards a More Diversified Supply of Welfare Services? Marketisation and the Local Governing of Nursing Homes in Scandinavian Countries -- Introduction -- Creating a Market for Elderly Care.

1 Introduction -- Introduction -- The Nordic Welfare Model -- The Share of Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Welfare Providers -- ECEC in the Nordic Countries -- Three Sets of Goals for ECEC -- Challenges Facing ECEC in the Nordic Countries: Demographic Changes, Accessibility, and Educational Approach -- Explaining Institutional Change -- Approaches to the Provision of Welfare Services -- The Three Actors in the Welfare Mix -- Public Provision or Privatization? -- The Welfare Sector as a Quasi-Market -- The Role of Nonprofit Providers as Part of the Welfare Mix -- The Remainder of This Book: ECEC From a Comparative Nordic Perspective -- References -- 2 Shared Roots—Private Initiatives Along Two Trajectories -- Introduction -- The Dual Trajectory of the ECEC System -- Trajectory 1: Charities Establish Children's Asylums as Protectors from the Dangers of Streets -- Trajectory 2: Philanthropic Kindergartens and For-Profit Child Residential Homes for Wealthy Families -- The Merging of the Two Trajectories -- Fostering a Nordic ECEC Model Through Kindergarten Teacher Education -- Chapter Summary -- References -- 3 From the Fringes to the Heart of the Welfare State—Growth in ECEC Coverage -- Introduction -- Legislative Foundation -- Consolidation and Growth -- Full Coverage -- Chapter Summary -- References -- 4 Changes in the Role of Commercial and Nonprofit ECEC Providers—Deviations from the Nordic Welfare Model? -- Introduction -- Private Growth -- Explaining the Growth of Private Actors: Framework Conditions, Financing, and Public Debates -- Chapter Summary -- References -- 5 Reigning in Provider Diversity? Regulation, Steering, and Supervision -- Introduction -- Educational Promotion—The Rationale for State Steering -- National Policies Pursued in Terms of Regulation and Curriculum -- Securing Compliance—Supervision -- Soft Steering—Manuals and Evaluations -- Chapter Summary -- References -- 6 Does It Matter? Quality Differences Among Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Providers -- Introduction -- Theoretical Underpinnings of Different Ownership and Quality -- Quality of ECEC -- International Experiences: Quality Differences Among Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit ECEC? -- Research in the Nordic Countries on Quality Differences Among Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Providers -- Chapter Summary -- References -- 7 Conclusions -- Introduction -- Why Private Growth in Nordic ECEC? -- How to Respond to Adverse Effects From Marketization? Nordic Attempts to Reign in Quasi-markets -- Governance Challenges in the Welfare Mix -- Why Diversity in Provision? -- A Nordic Dimension in ECEC Governance? -- References.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- References -- 2: Beyond Nonprofits: In Search of the Third Sector -- 1 The Challenge -- 1.1 A Diverse and Contested Terrain -- 1.2 A Sector Hidden in Plain Sight -- 1.3 Why Address this Challenge? The Case for Better Conceptualization and Data -- 2 Overcoming the Challenges: The Approach -- 2.1 Establishing the Criteria for an Acceptable Conceptualization -- 2.2 The Concept of a "Common Core" -- 2.3 Retention of Component Identities -- 2.4 Building on Existing Progress -- 2.4.1 Institutional Components -- 2.4.2 Individual-Action Component -- 2.5 A Bottom-up Strategy -- 3 Key Findings and Implications -- 3.1 Enormous Diversity -- 3.2 Considerable Underlying Consensus -- 3.2.1 Wide Agreement on Three Underlying Common Conceptual Features -- 3.2.2 NPIs are in -- 3.2.3 More than NPIs: Cooperatives and Mutuals -- 3.2.4 More than NPIs: Social Enterprises -- 3.2.5 More than Institutions: The Individual Component -- 3.2.6 Conclusion: Portraying the Third Sector Conceptually -- 4 Toward a Consensus Operational Conception of the TSE Sector -- 4.1 Institutional Components -- 4.1.1 The Organization Feature -- 4.1.2 The Private Feature -- 4.1.3 The Self-governing Feature -- 4.1.4 The Noncompulsory Feature -- 4.1.5 The Totally or Significantly Limited Profit-distribution Feature -- 4.2 Informal and Individual Components -- 5 Conclusion and Next Steps -- References -- 3: The Size and Composition of the European Third Sector -- 1 The Contours of the European TSE Sector: The Aggregate View -- 1.1 An Enormous Economic Engine -- 1.2 Volunteer Engagement -- 1.3 What does the European TSE Sector Do? -- 1.4 Revenue Structure -- 1.5 Institutional Structure -- 1.6 Longitudinal Changes -- 2 A Diverse Sector: Regional Variations.

This book contributes to the expanding field of cross-cultural and comparative management, and addresses the issue of whether the main Scandinavian countries--Denmark, Norway and Sweden--exhibit such similarities in management style and practice as to constitute a country cluster