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Additional authors

1. Bartlett, Will.
2. Roberts, Jennifer A.
3. Le Grand, Julian.

Description

1. xiii, 341 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. A critical evaluation of the quasi-market revolution in social policy across sectors, examining reforms in competitive tendering, education, health and community care, with information on legal aid, careers services and the media. Based primarily on current empirical research, it highlights issues such as provider contracts, transaction costs and the role of trust in the effective operation of quasi-markets.

Subject

1. Since 1979
2. Social policy > Congresses
3. Social policy
4. Privatisierung
5. Sozialpolitik
6. Sozialreform
7. Wohlfahrtsstaat
8. Öffentliche Leistung
9. Sociale politiek
10. Marktmechanisme
11. Verzelfstandiging
12. social service
13. social reform
14. competition
15. welfare state
16. public service
17. bidding
18. contracting
19. health service
20. school
21. education
22. medical care
23. management
24. community care
25. elder care
26. care of people with disabilities
27. legal aid
28. vocational guidance
29. television
30. Social policy
31. services sociaux
32. réforme sociale
33. concurrence
34. Etat-providence
35. services publics
36. appel d'offres
37. conclusion de contrats
38. service de santé
39. école
40. éducation
41. soins médicaux
42. gestion
43. soins communautaires
44. soins aux personnes âgées
45. soins aux handicapés
46. assistance juridique
47. orientation professionnelle
48. télévision
49. servicios sociales
50. reforma social
51. competencia
52. servicios públicos
53. licitación
54. contrata
55. servicio de salud
56. escuela
57. educación
58. asistencia médica
59. administración
60. atención comunitaria
61. asistencia a las personas de edad avanzada
62. cuidado a las personas con discapacidad
63. asesoramiento jurídico
64. orientación profesional
65. televisión
66. Estado benefactor
67. Great Britain > Social policy > 1979- > Congresses
68. Great Britain
69. Großbritannien
70. Belgium
71. New Zealand
72. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
73. USA
74. Belgique
75. Nouvelle-Zélande
76. Etats-Unis
77. Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
78. Bélgica
79. Nueva Zelandia
80. Estados Unidos
81. Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte

Genre/Form

1. Congress
2. proceedings (reports)
3. Conference papers and proceedings
4. reference.
5. Conference papers and proceedings.
6. Actes de congrès.
7. référence bibliographique.
8. referencia.

Contents

1. Introduction : the development of quasi-markets in the 1990s / Will Bartlett, Jennifer A. Roberts and Julian Le Grand -- CCT, conflict and cooperation in local authority quasi-markets / Peter Vincent-Jones and Andrew Harries -- The X-efficiency properties of competitive tendering / Robert McMaster -- Financing of schools : a national or local quasi-market? / Michael Barrow -- Educational quasi-markets : the Belgian experience / Vincent Vandenberghe -- Self-managing schools in the marketplace : the experience of England, the USA and New Zealand / Geoff Whitty, Sally Power and David Halpin -- How providers are chosen in the mixed economy of community care / Russell Mannion and Peter Smith -- Markets, hierarchies and choices in social care / Irvine Lapsley and Sue Llewellyn -- Healthcare quasi-markets in a decentralised system of government / George France -- Purchasing plurality in UK healthcare : is a consensus emerging and is it the right one? / Nicholas Mays and Jennifer Dixon -- Private agencies and public purposes : a quasi-market in the interwar years / Noel Whiteside -- Legal aid : a case study in quasi-market failure / Gwyn Bevan -- Applying market principles to the delivery of careers guidance services : a critical review / A.G. Watts -- Public television quasi-markets in New Zealand and the UK / Diana Barrowclough -- Lessons from experience of quasi-markets in the 1990s / Jennifer A. Roberts, Julian Le Grand and Will Bartlett.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. "This book is the product of a series of seminars organised at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol and the London School of Economics between 1994 and 1996"--Acknowledgments.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-323) and index.