Privatisation against the European Social Model: A Critique by Marica Frangakis, Christoph Hermann, Károly Lóránt, J.

By Marica Frangakis, Christoph Hermann, Károly Lóránt, J. Huffschmid

This e-book offers a complete evaluation and demanding research of the procedures of liberalization and privatization, and their results for fiscal functionality, social harmony and political democracy within the ecu Union. It examines the most drivers and a few of the theoretical rationales for privatisation within the context of other faculties of thinking. It argues at the foundation of vast empirical facts that privatisation in Europe, fairly the continuing privatization of social companies, undermines the fundamental components of different social types that experience constructed in Europe. those arguments are supported by way of a few in-depth case reviews, with particular specialise in healthiness care, schooling and finance. The authors of this quantity develop from this critique and discover the fundamental requisites for a innovative public area and its function for fiscal, social and democratic development. This publication can be fundamental analyzing for all drawn to financial coverage, Public quarter Economics, ecu Integration and Political Science. 

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For these purposes, provisions were adopted to prohibit or heavily constrain state subsidies (or, where these were thought necessary to uphold a service to grant them indiscriminately to all providers) to abolish cross-subsidies, to unbundle accounting, separate different activities and so on. To monitor and ensure the implementation of the internal market and competition, rules liberalisation was regularly accompanied by the set-up of new regulatory provisions and authorities in the member states.

Com - licensed to Taiwan eBook Consortium - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-03 Privatisation in Western Europe Marica Frangakis and Jörg Huffschmid the essential characteristic of a service is that it must be provided for remuneration. The service does not, however, necessarily have to be paid by those benefiting from it. The economic nature of a service does not depend on the legal status of the service provider (such as a non-profit making body) or on the nature of service, but rather on the way a given activity is actually provided, organised and financed.

Com - licensed to Taiwan eBook Consortium - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-03 Privatisation in Western Europe Marica Frangakis and Jörg Huffschmid the essential characteristic of a service is that it must be provided for remuneration. The service does not, however, necessarily have to be paid by those benefiting from it. The economic nature of a service does not depend on the legal status of the service provider (such as a non-profit making body) or on the nature of service, but rather on the way a given activity is actually provided, organised and financed.

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