TY - CHAP
T1 - Where is municipal marketization heading? Experiences from England and Scandinavia
AU - Lindholst, Andrej Christian
AU - Bretzer, Ylva Noren
AU - Dempsey, Nicola
AU - Leiren, Merethe Dotterud
AU - Hansen, Morten Balle
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Negative experiences, newer reform trends and local circumstances have challenged the reform doctrines of the New Public Management (NPM) and raised the question of whether reforms have entered a post-NPM era. We explore this question in a comparison of experiences with marketisation—a key doctrine in the NPM—within local park and road services in England, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The comparison draws upon survey data collected from mid-level managers in 2014–16. We conclude that although marketisation is widespread it is not dominant. Also, the practices of marketisation are partly transformed by newer reform trends. In perspective, we find that marketisation is an evolving practice, which trajectories depend on local contextual circumstances and adaption of newer reform ideas.
AB - Negative experiences, newer reform trends and local circumstances have challenged the reform doctrines of the New Public Management (NPM) and raised the question of whether reforms have entered a post-NPM era. We explore this question in a comparison of experiences with marketisation—a key doctrine in the NPM—within local park and road services in England, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The comparison draws upon survey data collected from mid-level managers in 2014–16. We conclude that although marketisation is widespread it is not dominant. Also, the practices of marketisation are partly transformed by newer reform trends. In perspective, we find that marketisation is an evolving practice, which trajectories depend on local contextual circumstances and adaption of newer reform ideas.
UR - https://vbn.aau.dk/en/publications/adcc1cde-8ee0-4e80-b1f4-010fbc52f066
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56059-1_12
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56059-1_12
M3 - Contribution to book/anthology
SN - 978-3-030-56058-4
T3 - Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance
SP - 157
EP - 170
BT - The Future of Local Self-Government
A2 - Bergstrøm, Tomas
A2 - Franzke, Jochen
A2 - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A2 - Wayenberg, Ellen
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -