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Privatisation and the Welfare State book cover

1st Edition

Privatisation and the Welfare State

Edited By Julian Le Grand, Ray Robinson Copyright 1984
250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1984, Privatisation and the Welfare State brings together a distinguished set of experts on the Welfare State and its main policy areas of health care, housing, education and transport. Each chapter provides some much-needed analysis of privatisation policies in areas where, too often, political rhetoric is allowed to dominate discussion. The book makes a major... Read more

About the Contributions

Preface

1. Privatisation and the Welfare State: An Introduction, Julian Le Grand and Ray Robinson

Part I: General Principles and Strategies

2. The Political Economy of Privatisation, Alan Walker

3. The Progressive Potential of Privatisation, David Donnison

4. Is Privatisation Inevitable?, Nick Bosanquet

5. Voluntary Organisations and the Welfare State, Robert Sugden

Part II: Policy Issues

6. Privatisation and the National Health Service, Alan Maynard and Alan Williams

7. Private Health Insurance, Peter A. West

8. Privatisation and Housing, Christine M.E. Whitehead

9. The Demise of Public Housing?, R.M. Kirwan

10. Privatisation of Education, Maurice Peston

11. Educational Vouchers – It All Depends on What you Mean, Mark Blaug

12. The Allocation of Urban Public Transport Subsidy, Stephen Glaister

13. Subsidies to Urban Public Transport and Privatisation, Graham Crampton

References

Index

Biography

Sir Julian Ernest Michael Le Grand, FBA is an academic specialising in public policy. He is the Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and was a senior policy advisor to former Prime Minister Tony Blair

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