Public services or corporate welfare : rethinking the nation state in the global economy / Dexter Whitfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitfield, Dexter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state.

State, The.

Privatization.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examining the role of the modern nation state, Dexter Whitfield assesses the achievements, failures, costs and benefits of the neo-liberal 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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: The Global Corporate Agenda

The seven- issue corporate agenda

The nation state

1 Public Goods, Public Risk and Power Struggles

Global and national public goods

Global risk or risky business

Competition, power struggles and alliances

Reconfiguring the state market civil society paradigm

2 Nation States: Facilitating and Accommodating Globalisation

Globalisation, regionalisation and the nation state

How the state facilitates globalisation

Privately financed infrastructure and sustainable development: mortgaging the future

States make markets

Globalisation of Public Management

3 Modernising the State: A Third Way for Competition

The roots of transformation and modernisation

The objectives of transformation and modernisation

Role of the state

Financing the state

4 Modernising the State: New Organisation and New Management?

Organisational structure of the state

Managing the state

5 The Emerging Corporate-Welfare Complex

Resilience to change

New challenges for the welfare state

The Third Way welfare state

Pensions and social security the global market

The new corporate- welfare complex

6 The Price of Neo-Liberal Modernisation

Macroeconomic impact

Asset stripping and high transaction costs

Employment impact

Democratic accountability and user/ employee involvement

Fragmenting the state

Equality and social justice

Quality of service

The performance state paradigm

Ownership and control

Partnerships

The effect on state capacity

7 The Nation State in 2020

New world ( dis) order

The corporate or minimalist state

The enabling or partnership state

The third sector or social economy state

Other models.

8 Redesigning the State A New Public Order

The state in capitalist society

The core functions of the state

Extending democratic accountability and new models of governance

Taxation of income, consumption and corporate profits

Reversing marketisation and privatisation

New financial and regulatory architecture to control capital

Promoting civil society, citizenship and the social economy

Maintaining universal welfare systems

Reducing poverty through empowerment, redistribution, equalities, regeneration and control of development

Creating jobs and quality employment

Imposing corporate governance and social accountability

Maintaining macroeconomic stability and investment

9 A New Public Service Management

Principles of public service

A blueprint for a new Public Service Management

Corporate policies, values and public service ethos

Democratic accountability and communications

Social Justice Planning and Auditing

Innovation, redesign and capacity building

User and employee/ trade union involvement

Strategic researching and planning social and economic needs

Quality systems and performance review

Monitoring, evaluation and learning environment

Public sector networks, partnerships and strategic sourcing

Quality employment &amp

training

10 New Strategies and Alliances

Bibliography

Index

accountability

238

261

accountability,

178

211

Accounts Commission for Scotland 86

Acheson Report 262

Adam Smith Institute 69

advisory groups 113

AEA Technology 169

affordability

13

134

ageing 135-9

agentification 101

Aid to Families with Dependent Children [AFDC]

144

157

alliances

28

49

247

284-5

America Works 124

Andersen Consulting

106

124

183

194

Angel 168

Angola 47

APEC

33

37.

39

55

Argentina

40

154

177

Arriva 190

Arthur Andersen

30

92

186

Asian Development Bank 54

asset stripping 167-74

Associated British Ports 78

AT&amp

T 126

Audit Commission

86

89

116

187

audit state

18

219

auditing 87

audits

social, 263

state, 185

Australia

47

57

90

160

185

public service management, 253

welfare, 133

Austria 133

Bangkok 43

Bedfordshire 83

Belfast Port 80

Belgium

133

benchmarking 115

Benefits Agency/Post 194

Best Value

8

68

114-18

212

257

260

Better Quality Services

Better Regulation Initiative 74

Birmingham

81

285

Birmingham City Council

161

192

Blackburn 83

Blair, Tony

7

BMW 161

Boeing 157

bonds 242

Brazil

42

Bretton Woods institutions

3

4

37

135

243

Britain

6

35

41

54

56

60

62

63

85

114

126

128

132

British Aerospace

78

170

British Airways

169

British Coal 169

British Energy 169

British Gas

166

167

184

British Petroleum [BP] 169

British Rail 168

British Social Attitudes survey 131

British Steel 169

British Telecom [BT]

189

British Transport Docks Board 127

Britoil 169

Brookings Institution 139

Build-Operate-Transfer 57

Bulgaria 150

bus companies 102

bus deregulation

175

190

bus services 175

business agenda 15

Business Excellence Model 110

Business Improvement Districts 109

Business Process Reengineering 110

Business Roundtable 21

Busways 190

Cable and Wireless

170.

California Public Employees Retirement System 15

Cambridge Educational Services 81

Canada

31

110

151

162

capacity building 270

Capita Group

79

capital accumulation

16

73

capital expenditure

95

capital flight

11

capital flows 242

capitalist economy 284

Carillion 96

casualisation 32

catalytic states 46

Central and Eastern Europe

central-local relations 233

centralisation

99

214

Centre for Public Services [CPS] 275

Chantrey Vellacott 192

Chase Manhattan Bank 161

Chicago Institute on Urban Poverty 176

children 60

Chile

59

147

152

privatised pensions, 152-4

China

206

Citibank 157

Citizen's Charter

84

111

112

Citizens' Council on Corporate Issues 251

City Centre Management Companies 107

City Challenge 105

Cityworks 103

civil service 16

civil society

34-5

class 84

Cleveland 125

client-contractor

102

188

Coalition of Service Industries 5

coalitions 285

Code for Quality Employment 283

Columbia HCA 26

commercialisation

83

commodification

20

70

72

98

community action 285

community care 73

community organisations 218

company towns

15

164

215

Competing for Quality 172

competition 118

competition policy 245

competitive culture 166

competitive tendering

120-1

employment, 174

reform, 64

competitive tendering or Compulsory Competitive Tendering [CCT]

120

121

Comprehensive Spending Review 89

Confederation of British Industry

21

91

Conservative government 85

Conservative Party 66

construction industry 99

consultants 65.

consultation 178

consultative state 18

continuity of service 239

continuous improvement 277

contract state

Contract with America 141

contracting 121

contracting out 123

contractor organisation 98

contractors 155

Copenhagen 13

corporate agenda 3

corporate governance 14-15

corporate policies 239

corporate state

209

210-11

corporate taxation

corporate welfare

2

9

44-5

155-7

Corporate Welfare Complex

10-13

223-4

Corporation 80

corporatisation 101

corruption

197

cost transparency 239

council house sales 78

council housing

119

Coventry 81

Coventry City Council 106

crony capitalism 14

cross border mergers 51-2

Cumbria 83

Czech Republic 50

de-familialisation 140

debt write-off 169

decentralisation 102

deficits 75

Deloitte Touche

democratic accountability

65

178-9

229

261-2

273

284

democratic control

democratic dividend 229

democratic renewal

67

113

demographic change 135-9

Denmark

103

149

deprivation 265

deregulation

46

125-8

buses, 125

Deregulation and Contracting Out Act [1994] 126

destabilisation 69

developing countries

39

207

232

242

development banks

development education 247

development process 99

disinvestment 70

District Auditors

dividends 75

DSO

80

e-government

250

269

East Asia

14

43

58

East Asian economies

22

38

financial crisis, 45

ecological sustainability 246

economic development 161

economic infrastructure 57

economic integration 49.

economic management 71.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-314) and index.

ISBN:

9781849640039

1849640033

9780585426044

058542604X

OCLC:

51002825