Public Services or Corporate Welfare

17-Jan-2001

Rethinking the Nation State in the Global Economy by Dexter Whitfield. CPS Special Offer on this essential, insightful and though-provoking new book which:

• provides a radical analysis of modernisation including partnerships, private finance and Best Value;
• analyses how the state facilitates globalisation by promoting private finance and the marketisation of public services;
• exposes how the Third Way masks the continuity of neo-liberalism;
• demonstrates how the World Trade Organisation is committed to privatising public services and welfare states;
• charts the emergence of a Corporate–Welfare Complex;
• promotes a revitalised role for the state in a new system of global governance, stressing the importance of sustaining and improving the welfare state;
• advocates a dynamic new model of public service management placing priority on innovation, equality and investment as an alternative to the reinvention and performance management models.

Contents

• The global corporate agenda
• Public goods, public risk and power struggles
• Nation states
• facilitating and accommodating globalisation
• Modernising the state
• A third way for competition and public management?
• The emerging corporate-welfare complex
• The price of neo-liberal modernisation
• The nation state in 2020
• Redesigning the state - A new public order
• A new public service management
• New alliances and strategies

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