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The Organisational Evolution of the Childcare Regime in Germany: Issues and Dynamics of a Public‐private Partnership
Author(s) -
Bode Ingo
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
annals of public and cooperative economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.526
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-8292
pISSN - 1370-4788
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8292.2003.00238.x
Subject(s) - general partnership , statutory law , german , agency (philosophy) , civil society , public administration , dynamics (music) , field (mathematics) , welfare , political science , business , economics , market economy , sociology , law , social science , pedagogy , mathematics , archaeology , politics , pure mathematics , history
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 .