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The reduction of legal constraints on private participation in service provisions. It allows competition among private suppliers for services that in the past had been provided by government or regulated by monopolies.

From a perspective of classical liberalism, deregulation of education is defined as the retraction of the state in the field of education and a shift of responsibility to private and decentralized actors (Mill 1984; Smith 2005; von Hayek 2005; Friedman 2008). ... We regard deregulation as a broader concept, which comprises liberalization, privatization and decentralization of authority as empirically measurable indicators.