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Innovations in financing public services : country case studies / edited by Stephen J. Bailey, Pekka Valkama and Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko.

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Innovations in financing public services : country case studies / edited by Stephen J. Bailey, Pekka Valkama and Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko.
Publication
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Bailey, S. J. (Stephen James), 1951-
  • Valkama, Pekka.
  • Anttiroiko, Ari-Veikko.
Description
xiv, 292 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
This book explores new forms of private, mutual municipal, public-private and 'reverse' state funding of public investments, co-payments and shared contributions, vouchers, and pooled public risk-financing. It includes case studies taken from the Nordic countries, UK, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia, Turkey and South Korea.
Subject
  • Finance, Public
  • Finance, Public > Case studies
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Public Finance
  • Public finance
  • Public administration
  • Political science & theory
  • Political economy
  • Finance and Accounting
Genre/Form
Case studies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Innovative public finance: definition, practice and context -- Beyond PFI: procurement of public sector infrastructure and the evolving plurality of methods in the UK -- Innovations in private sector provision of infrastructure in South Korea -- The distinctive financing of road infrastructures in Spain: evolution and innovation -- Public-private partnerships in Slovenia: reverse financial innovations enhancing the public role -- Local government funding agencies: lessons from success and failure -- Innovation in local government risk financing: lessons from the UK and Nordic experiences -- Innovations in financing higher education in Slovakia -- Innovation in the Turkish budgetary system: recent developments in public governance -- Co-payments: innovations in the balance between public and private finance -- Vouchers as innovative funding of public services -- Public service vouchers in the UK and Finland.
ISBN
  • 9780230241596 (alk. paper)
  • 023024159X (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010484409
OCLC
  • 587209688
  • SCSB-11636597
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library