Limiting Resources : : Market-Led Reform and the Transformation of Public Goods /

Limiting Resources : : Market-Led Reform and the Transformation of Public Goods / / LaDawn Haglund.

The provision of public goods such as education, electricity, health, sanitation, and water used to be regarded as primarily the responsibility of governments, but in the 1980s privatization of such services spread and reliance on market mechanisms instead of governments became common in many parts...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Haglund, LaDawn,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015]
©2010
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Acronyms
  • Introduction: Public Utility Reform: Problems and Perspectives
  • 1 Theorizing Public Goods: The Role of Organizing Principles
  • 2 ‘‘For the People’’: Constructing the ‘‘Public’’ of Public Goods
  • 3 ‘‘Over Our Dead Bodies’’: The Emergence of Privatization Policies
  • 4 The Institutionalization of Market-Led Public Goods Provision
  • 5 Power, Resistance, and Neoliberalism as Instituted Process
  • Conclusion: Market Transformation of Public Goods
  • Appendix: Methodological Notes
  • References
  • Index

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