Elements of a Progressive European Social Model

Christoph Hermann

Chapter 15 in Privatisation against the European Social Model, 2009, pp 233-244 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Preceding chapters have analysed in great detail the consequences of privatisation of public services and have thereby shown how privatisation undermines the very foundations of the European Social Model (ESM). This chapter attempts to go a step further and discuss possible elements of a progressive ESM as an alternative to the changes described in the previous pages. However, the starting point is an acknowledgement that although privatisation and related processes resulted in a situation that in many aspects is clearly inferior to the state where services were still provided publicly, a progressive alternative cannot simply demand for a reinstatement of the old model. First, the European social models of the post-war years themselves had a number of serious deficiencies, and second there are new challenges ahead that demand new responses.

Keywords: Public Service; Service User; Work Council; Public Ownership; Universal Service (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230250680_15

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