Books and articles by Dexter Whitfield

Latest books and articles

In Place of Austerity

In Place of Austerity, Restructuring the economy, state and public services, by Dexter Whitfield, Spokesman.

2011-11-09 14:02:33

The Dynamics of Public Sector Transformation, Dexter Whitfield

Soundings Winter 2010, Issue 46, pp99-111.

Outlines the elements of neoliberal transformation of the public sector and the criteria needed to assess the level of embeddedness and effectiveness of recent ‘reform’. It identifies key challenges beyond 2010 and proposes strategies to achieve progressive and systemic change.

2011-02-07 13:16:17

Launch events and presentations

Details of events and lectures in Britain, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Sweden. Further dates to be added.

2009-11-24 15:41:22

Press Release

Publication of Global Auction of Public Assets

2009-11-24 15:26:46

Global Auction of Public Assets Glossary

Glossary of 140 terms

2009-11-03 20:01:29

Contents of Global Auction of Public Assets

Summary of the contents.

2009-11-01 16:21:09

Global Auction of Public Assets

Global Auction of Public Assets: Public sector alternatives to the infrastructure market & Public Private Partnerships

2009-10-21 14:21:00

Book Review: Confuse and Conceal: The NHS and Independent Sector Treatment Centres

The book by Stewart Player and Colin Leys exposes how a succession of New Labour Health Ministers, advisers, senior civil servants and staff recruited from the private sector operated in the Department of Health to restructure the private health care sector with a network of Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs). Equally important, it chronicles the failure of scrutiny.

2008-04-17 08:56:33

Financing Infrastructure in the 21st Century: The Long Term Impact of Public Private Partnerships in Britain and Australia by Dexter Whitfield

A detailed study of the longer-term impact of changes in the design, structure and financing of PPP/PFI projects, external economic and political drivers such as growth of the secondary market and government modernisation policies, and the effect of economic, social and employment change. The report also examines PPP/PFI performance, democratic accountability and transparency, the impact on jobs and concludes with an assessment of alternative public sector investment strategies. Copies of the 80 page report are available from: Don Dunstan Foundation, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia. Email – dunstan.foundation@adelaide.edu.au Price £10.00 includes airmail postage.

2007-07-16 13:32:28

Marketisation of Legal Services

Legal Action, Journal of the Legal Action Group, March 2007. Examines how public services are being marketised and assesses the impact on legal services.

2007-05-23 19:54:13

New Labour's Attack on Public Services

New Labour is creating markets in public services on an unprecedented scale. Education, health and social care, children’s services, housing, planning and regeneration, the criminal justice system and the welfare state are all being marketised. Privatisation inevitably follows marketisation, eroding democratic accountability and embedding business interests. The impact will be far reaching. Any benefits in terms of economic, social and sustainable development that are gained through regional strategies and city regions could evaporate if market forces are allowed to run rampant across the public sector.

Alternative policies and strategies must build on the support for democratic governance, social justice and the welfare state. As this timely book makes clear, action by alliances of trade unions, community organisations and civil society organisations is urgently required.

2006-11-28 12:54:53

The Marketisation of Teaching

The Marketisation of Teaching PFI Journal No 52 The April 2006 issue of the PFI Journal contains an article by Dexter Whitfield which examines the potential impact of the Building Schools for the Future programme on education.

2006-11-28 10:09:45

PPPs- Where Will We Be By 2010?

PPPs- Where Will We Be By 2010?, Dexter Whitfield, Public Management and Policy Association Newsletter, No.16, February 2002

2006-11-28 09:51:20

Partnerships, Privatisation and the Public Interest - Public Private Partnerships and the Financing of Infrastructure Development in South Australia

By John Spoehr, Dexter Whitfield and John Quiggin for the Public Service Association of South Australia (2002). Discusses the basics, origins and rationale of PPPs, draws on the lessons from the British and Australian experience (55pp)

2006-11-28 09:16:11

Public Services or Corporate Welfare - Rethinking the Nation State in the Global Economy by Dexter Whitfield

A comprehensive analysis of key issues confronting public services and the welfare state in the global economy. 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.

2003-12-01 17:51:55