While the past decades have witnessed a growing proportion of publicly funded services
delivered by private providers, analyses of the consequences for service quality are scarce …

SoPhi on julkaissut akateemisesti korkeatasoista filosofista ja yhteiskuntatieteellistä
kirjallisuutta vuodesta 1995. Kirjoittajamme ovat kansainvälisesti ansioituneita tutkijoita …

Nordic countries are known for their service‐based welfare states, which include basic
health and social care for all older adults who have been formally assessed and found to …

This article illustrates how the implementation of 'interstitial'innovation in welfare policy can
be hampered by resistance to change on the part of its intended beneficiaries by means of a …

The study of European long‐term care (LTC) marketisation is dominated by institutional and
ideational perspectives. In contrast, political economic theoretical frameworks have received …

Focusing on Swedish home care for older people, this article explores the discursive (re)
production of home care as an institution. Equality and universal service provision have …

Ideational and gender discursive approaches are used to examine how implementing actors
discursively engage with processes of marketization within home care policy in Ireland …

Internationally, primary health care has in recent years gained a more central position in
political priorities to ensure sustainable health care for the population. Thus, more people …

The provincial health services labor market was fundamentally altered in 2002 with the
introduction of a series of legislative and policy changes enabling the contracting-out, or …

The sizeable presence of migrant care workers in the private care market in many European
countries is confirmed by several studies that have explained the phenomenon through …