1st Edition
Privatisation and the Welfare State
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 contribution to the reader’s understanding of the complex issues involved in this controversial area of social policy. As the first systematic evaluation of a broad range of welfare state privatisation proposals, it is essential reading for economists, social administrators, and political scientists.
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
