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Title State-led privatisation and the demise of the democratic state : welfare reform and localism in an era of regulatory capitalism / Mike Raco (University College, London UK).
Author Raco, Mike, author
Publisher Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2013]
Copyright ©2013


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Description 213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
ISBN 9781409443261 hardback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-197) and index.
Contents State-led privatisation, the restructuring of the state, and the new localism -- Privatisation, welfare reform, and the politics of the new progressivism -- Regulatory capitalism, privatisation, and the new contractualism in the welfare state -- The private finance initiative and the privatisation of the British welfare state -- The consequences of privatisation and the rise of new private sector elites -- The privatisation of healthcare and the new localism -- The privatisation of social housing and the re-making of citizenship -- Transport infrastructure and the impacts of privatisation -- What is left to the state?
Library Class Economics H548
Subject Privatization -- Great Britain.
Local government -- Great Britain.
Capitalism -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.

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