SO C IA L SERVICES
(Summary)
Part Four consislting o f seven articles is fully devoted to the funding o f social services. Several major issues are emphasized here. They concern, first o f all, the form in which social services are funded in the context o f redistribution o f services. This provides a background for the analysis o f sources o f funding and organization o f institutions belonging to the social services sector.
A poin t o f reference for these issues are several cross-sections. It allow ed to grasp the finance o f social services in its differentiation according to types, institutions, crossnational com parisons (American and Spanish experience), and division o f pow ers between the State and the local self-government.