The Organisational Evolution of the Childcare Regime in Germany: Issues and Dynamics of a Public‐private Partnership |
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Authors: | by Ingo Bode |
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Institution: | Institute of Sociology of the University of Duisburg‐Essen, Germany |
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Abstract: | In many European countries, institutional childcare has developed as a field shaped by both statutory and associative agency, the German system being emblematic for this. In Germany, a considerable proportion of childcare services are provided by nonprofit organizations under public regulation. Departing from a historical overview, the article elaborates on the mixed economy of welfare in that system and sheds light on recent transformations of the existing public‐private partnership. It is argued that with a range of cultural and civil‐society‐related evolutions, the system is going to adopt elements of a market regulation that are prone to change the rules of games within the partnership as such. |
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