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100	1		_aRAUCH, Dietmar _934654
245	1	0	_aCentral versus local service regulation : _baccounting for diverging old-age care developments in Sweden and Denmark, 1980-2000
260			_aMalden, MA : _bBlackwell Publishers, _cJune 2008
520	3		_aIn Sweden and Denmark, the development of old-age care has followed markedly divergent paths over the past 20 years. In both countries, the level of old-age care universalism was exceptionally high in the early 1980s. Since then it has dropped sharply in Sweden, while remaining constantly high in Denmark. These divergent trends are clearly irreconcilable with the common image of a coherent Scandinavian welfare state model, and they seem hard to explain with reference to traditional approaches of comparative social policy. This article attempts to account for the divergent developments by focusing on the balance of old-age care regulation between central and local government. The main finding is that only in Sweden has the central regulation of old-age care been weak and unspecific. As a consequence, Swedish municipalities have enjoyed sufficient autonomous, regulatory competence to exercise certain local retrenchment measures in times of austerity, thereby eventually causing a nationwide weakening of old-age care universalism. By contrast, municipalities in Denmark have been much more tightly bound by central state regulations which have prevented them from imposing similar retrenchment measures in the old-age care sector; consequently, Denmark's level of old-age care universalism has remained comparatively high
773	0	8	_tSocial Policy & Administration _g42, 3, p. 267-287 _dMalden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, June 2008 _xISSN 01445596 _w
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999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c26760 _d26760
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