Partners, not rivals : privatization and the public good / Martha Minow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minow, Martha, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privatization--United States.

Privatization.

Public welfare--Contracting out.

Social service--Contracting out.

United States.

Public contracts--United States.

Public contracts.

Social service--Contracting out--United States.

Social service.

Medical care--Contracting out--United States.

Medical care.

Medical care--Contracting out.

Public welfare--Contracting out--United States.

Public welfare.

Educational vouchers--United States.

Educational vouchers.

United States--Social policy--1993-.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

232 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, [2002]

Summary:

What happens when private companies, non-profit agencies, and religious groups manage what government used to--in education, criminal justice, legal services, and welfare programs? In this important new book, renowned legal scholar Martha Minow takes on this astonishingly unexamined change in our public life. She acknowledges that private commercial interests are not necessarily bad, and that religious providers have long played crucial roles in health care, social services, and schooling. But if commercial interests are here to stay, we must be sure that we can preserve certain public values in the face of these market forces. Minow shows us how to guard against the dangers of privatization to preserve our basic freedoms.

Contents:

Choice or commonality

What's going on?

Schooling, welfare, and faith-based initiatives

Medicine and law : profits and prophets

"A daring system".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0807043362

OCLC:

49249679