The Choice Revolution: Privatization of Swedish Welfare Services in the 1990s

By P. Blomqvist. 2004

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Neo-liberalism and universal state education: the cases of Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1980–2011 (2013, background): “By the 1960s most of the pre-existing private providers had been phased out, largely through lack of funding (Esping-Andersen 1985; Blomqvist 2004; Cox 2011; Nordlund 2000).”
Choice is yours: A psychodynamic exploration of health policymaking and its consequences for the English National Health Service (2006, background): “Patient choice and empowerment are at the forefront of the debate about the future direction of public health in many industrialized countries (e.g. Perri 6, 2003; Blomqvist, 2004; Harrison, 2004; Vrangbæk & Bech, 2004; Allen & Riemer-Hommel, 2006).”
The marketisation of care: Rationales and consequences in Nordic and liberal care regimes (2012, background): “The arguments for marketisation focused initially on improving quality, but, with the recession of the early 1990s, they moved more to cutting costs through price competition (Blomqvist, 2004).”