Power and Privatization: Choice and Competition in the Remaking of British Democracy - Hardcover

Wolfe, J.

 
9780333637340: Power and Privatization: Choice and Competition in the Remaking of British Democracy
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ISBN 10: 0333637348 ISBN 13: 9780333637340
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1996

Synopsis

This book shows that privatization in Britain constitutes a form of state power. After analyzing the historical and ideological background, the study examines how market processes indirectly extend state control by governing participation in state asset sales, regulatory regimes, deregulated policymaking and the marketization of trade unions. Privatizing control remade British democracy. Direct state power has been concentrated and held in reserve, while market processes guide wide areas of routine decision-making. Thus, it is demonstrated that privatization has depoliticized choice and diminished freedom.

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JOEL D. WOLFE

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0333637348
ISBN 13 
9780333637340
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
221

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