, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain government outsourcing by the pursuit of … economic efficiency. Starting out from different theories, we investigate political explanations of government outsourcing … using a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies between municipalities and over time, as well as between services. Our …

candidate model of representative democracy. -- outsourcing ; ideology ; public provision ; contracting out …There are several theoretical accounts of public sector outsourcing. We note that leading theories give different … predictions of the influence of political variables and test the predictions on a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies …

; ideology ; public provision ; contracting out ; child care ; education …, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain government outsourcing by the pursuit of … economic efficiency. Starting out from different theories, we investigate political explanations of government outsourcing …

There are several theoretical accounts of public sector outsourcing. We note that leading theories give different … predictions of the influence of political variables and test the predictions on a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies … municipalities had full discretion in the provision of preschools, while their influence on the provision of primary education was …

, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain government outsourcing by the pursuit of … economic efficiency. Starting out from different theories, we investigate political explanations of government outsourcing … using a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies between municipalities and over time, as well as between services. Our …

, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain government outsourcing by the pursuit of … economic efficiency. Starting out from different theories, we investigate political explanations of government outsourcing … using a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies between municipalities and over time, as well as between services. Our …

-patient and inpatient health care register data from Sweden over the period 1999-2008 merged with other population register data …