Chapter 1. Comparative Study of public and social services provision: Definitional, conceptual and methodological frame; Hellmut Wollmann
Chapter 2. The impact of EU law on local public service provision: competition and public service; Gérard Marcou
Chapter 3. What impact of European Court of Justice decisions in the field of local public services provision?; Pierre Bauby and Mihaela Simlie
Chapter 4. Delivering public services in the United Kingdom in a period of austerity; John McEldowney
Chapter 5. Local government public service provision in France: diversification of management patterns and decentralization reforms; Gérard Marcou
Chapter 6. Re-Municipalisation Revisited: Long-Term Trends in the Provision of Local Public Services in Germany; Frank Bönker, Jens Libbe and Hellmut Wollmann
Chapter 7. Local government and the market. The case of public services and care for the elderly in Sweden; Stig Montin
Chapter 8. Local public services in Italy: still fragmentation; Giulio Citroni, Andrea Lippi and Stefania Profeti
Chapter 9. Spanish Municipal Services delivery: an uncertain scenario; Jaume Magre Ferran and Esther Pano Puey
Chapter 10. From municipal socialism to the sovereign debt crisis: Local Services in Greece 1980-2015; Theodore Tsekos and Athanasia Triantafyllopoulou
Chapter 11. Mixed System: Transformation and Current Trends in the Provision of Local Public Services in the Czech and Slovak Republics; Juraj Nemec and Jana Soukopova
Chapter 12. The evolution of local public services provision in Poland; Lukacs Mikula and Marzena Walaszek
Chapter 13. From Municipalisation to Centralism: Changes in the Hungarian Local Public Service Delivery; Tamás M. Horvath
Chapter 14. Local Government and Local Public Services in Croatia; Ivan Kopric, Vedran Dulabic and Anamarija Musa
Chapter 15. Local service delivery in Turkey; Ulas Bayraktar and Cagla Tansug
Chapter 16. Local governments and the energy sector: A comparison of France, Iceland and the United Kingdom; Roselyn Allemand, Magali Dreyfus, Arni Magnusson and John McEldowney
Chapter 17. Water Provision in France, Germany and Switzerland: Between Convergence and Divergence; Eva Lieberherr, Claudine Viard and Carsten Herzberg
Chapter 18. Hospital privatization in Germany and France: Marketization without deregulation?; Tanja Klenk and Renate Reiter
Chapter 19. Models of local public service delivery: Privatisation, publicisation and the renaissance of the cooperative?; Hartmut Bauer, and Friedrich Markmann
Chapter 20. Institutional variants of local utility services: Evidence from several European countries; Giuseppe Grossi and Christoph Reichard
Chapter 21. Public and social services in Europe: From public/municipal to private provision - and reverse?; Hellmut Wollmann. .