GREEN-PEDERSEN, Christoffer <br/><br/>
New public management reforms of the Danish and Swedish welfare states :  the role of different social democratic responses 

 - Malden :  Wiley-Blackwell,  April 2002 
<br/><br/> This article investigates market-type reforms of the service welfare states in Sweden and Denmark. Sweden has implemented such reforms to a greater extent than Denmark. The explanation should be found in the diferent responses of the Social Democratic parties to the NPM agenda in general and market-type reforms in particular. In Denmark, the Social Democrats have opposed market-type reforms, whereas in Sweden they have been more opens towards these ideas. With this focus, the paper differs from most other writings about variation in the extent of NPM