Public Services or Corporate Welfare
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Public Services or Corporate Welfare

Rethinking the Nation State in the Global Economy

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Public Services or Corporate Welfare

Rethinking the Nation State in the Global Economy

About this book

Examining the role of the modern nation state, Dexter Whitfield assesses the achievements, failures, costs and benefits of the neoliberal and 'third way' transformation of the state. He demonstrates that private finance of infrastructure, marketisation of government and privatisation of the welfare state are accelerating the globalisation process and generating ever larger financial, social and environmental crises. Whitfield analyses current trends which are exacerbated by the marketisation and partnership agenda advocated by global bodies such as the World Bank, IMF and WTO. He reveals how these policies further reduce the capacity of the state in the global economy, its ability to provide good quality public services and inevitably create a corporate welfare complex. Within a framework for understanding the extent, scale and impact of the transformation of the state, the author forecasts the implications of the continuation of current policies.

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Information

Publisher
Pluto Press
Year
2001
Print ISBN
9780745308555
eBook ISBN
9781849640039
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Tables and Figures
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction: The Global Corporate Agenda
  7. 1 Public Goods, Public Risk and Power Struggles
  8. 2 Nation States: Facilitating and Accommodating Globalisation
  9. 3 Modernising the State: A Third Way for Competition
  10. 4 Modernising the State: New Organisation and New Management?
  11. 5 The Emerging Corporate-Welfare Complex
  12. 6 The Price of Neo-Liberal Modernisation
  13. 7 The Nation State in 2020
  14. 8 Redesigning the State A New Public Order
  15. 9 A New Public Service Management
  16. 10 New Strategies and Alliances
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index