It compares for-profit firms as providers of hospital services and pensions and investigates the new private actors in social policy provision, whether they become political actors, and the extent of their power in welfare state politics.
Jonas Pieper is a researcher at the Observatory for Sociopolitical Developments in Europe, based in Germany. He has previously held positions as a policy officer on EU social policy and as a researcher at University of Bremen where he specialized in comparative welfare state studies.
Innehållsförteckning
1: Introduction.- 2: Private sector provider power in welfare state politics.- 3: Mapping private sector providers.- 4: Power resources of private sector providers.- 5: Private sector providers and patterns of privatization.- 6: Private sector providers in political processes.- 7: Conclusion.