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Analyzing the changing boundaries between the public and the private spheres in the welfare state is particularly interesting in the Swiss case. In fact, the role of the private sector has always been important in social policymaking in this country, many decades before the contemporary pushes for privatization and market-based social protection in most industrialized countries (Cattacin 2006).
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Bertozzi, F., Gilardi, F. (2008). The Swiss Welfare State: A Changing Public-Private Mix?. In: Béland, D., Gran, B. (eds) Public and Private Social Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230228771_10
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