Privatization and the Welfare State (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Kamerman, Sheila B.; Kahn, Alfred J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691630550 ISBN 13: 9780691630557

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Looking at the theory and practice of privatization in its broadest manifestations, the contributors to this volume scrutinize the combination of public and private initiatives that makes up the present U.S. social sector. As they discuss privatization both in production and delivery of services and in financing, they reveal complexities that have been ignored in recent ideological arguments. This book, while warning about political misuse of privatization, offers an unusually rigorous definition and theory of the concept and presents a number of case studies that show how public and private sectors variously cooperate, compete, or complement one another in social programs--and how various systems have accommodated to the privatization rhetoric that has come to the fore under the Reagan administration.

The contributors are Marc Bendick, Jr., Evelyn Z. Brodkin, Arnold Gurin, Alfred J. Kahn, Sheila B. Kamerman, Michael O'Higgins, Martin Rein Richard Rose, Paul Starr, Mitchell Sviridoff, and Dennis Young.

Originally published in 1989.

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About the Author

SHEILA KAMERMAN is Professor of Social Policy and Planning at the Columbia University School of Social Work and Codirector, with Alfred J. Kahn, of the Cross-National Studies Research Program.

ALFRED J. KAHN is also Professor of Social Policy and Planning at Columbia University School of Social Work and Codirector of the Cross-National Studies Research Program.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691630550
• ISBN 13: 9780691630557
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296