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Pinelli, Cesare. "Profils de droit constitutionnel et communautaire des privatisations des services publics locaux en Italie et en France." Annuaire international de justice constitutionnelle 9, no. 1993 (1995): 565–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/aijc.1995.2407.

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Martin, Brendan. "Resistance to privatisation — social dialogue, US-style." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 8, no. 2 (May 2002): 279–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102425890200800211.

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This article looks at US experiences of the contracting-out form of privatisations, the problems it can cause and the forms of resistance that have developed among public service unions. It focuses in particular on how the municipal workers’ union in Indianapolis combined resistance with partnership to avert privatisation and achieve improved service, employment guarantees and better pay and working conditions. It then details, with reference to airport security, some of the perils of allowing privately owned companies, with their limited business preoccupations, to manage an area with a major public-good component.

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Cuadrado-Ballesteros, Beatriz, and Noemí Peña-Miguel. "Does Privatisation Reduce Public Deficits?" Policy & Politics 47, no. 2 (April 26, 2019): 287–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557319x15526372091439.

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This paper provides the first ever analysis of the two-way relationship between the privatisation of government services and fiscal balance. It uses data from 22 European countries between 1995 and 2013 to examine the factors that promote privatisation policies and the effects that privatisation then has on public finances. This is important because privatisation has been promoted by both the European Union and the International Monetary Fund as a way of responding to financial crises, and in an era of austerity it is important to have robust empirical evidence about the extent to which privatisation has achieved this. Our analysis demonstrates that governments often adopt privatisation policies in the hope of improving their fiscal balances, but that political ideology is important since left-wing administrations are more likely to see it as a means of also restructuring government services.

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Huffschmid, Jörg. "Finance as a driver of privatisation." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 14, no. 2 (January 1, 2008): 209–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102425890801400205.

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This article discusses the accumulation of private financial assets and the pressure on public budgets as powerful drivers of privatisation. Financial investors are the central actors in this process, which is developing within a framework of increasingly finance-led capitalism. Financial investors are the main beneficiaries and strong promoters of the worldwide move towards pension system privatisation. With financial assets growing as a result of upward income redistribution and pension reform, traditional institutional investors are finding it difficult to generate attractive profits for their clients, and this calls for financial innovation. The activities of innovative financial investors have a twofold impact on privatisation and privatised sectors: (i) private equity firms are opening up new areas for the privatisation of public assets and services, and (ii) the ‘shareholder activism’ of hedge funds is making it increasingly difficult to meet public service obligations in privatised sectors. The EU is not countering, but rather stimulating and supporting these developments. To avoid further destabilisation and social polarisation, social resistance and political intervention are necessary, in both financial markets and public services.

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Marlière, Philippe. "Le public au service du privé. Mondialisation néo-libérale et privatisation des services publics en Grande-Bretagne." Les Temps Modernes 615-616, no. 4 (2001): 347. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/ltm.615.0347.

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Campos-Alba, Cristina M., Emilio J. de la Higuera-Molina, Gemma Pérez-López, and José L. Zafra-Gómez. "Explanatory factors in the renewal of contracts for the privatisation of public services." Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation 3, no. 1 (March 2017): 3–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055563617718386.

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After analysing the explanatory factors underlying the renewal of privatisation contracts, this paper examines the likelihood of local authorities renewing their contracts with private entities for the provision of public services, by studying a sample of 623 Spanish municipalities for the period 2002–2013, using a logit model. The type of service, the duration of the contract and certain political and economic factors were all found to influence the renewal or otherwise of this type of contract. Moreover, this effect differed between initial privatisation and subsequent contract renewal.

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Andreani, Tony. "La privatisation des services publics est une privatisation de la démocratie." Actuel Marx 34, no. 2 (2003): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/amx.034.0043.

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Pinch, S. P. "The Restructuring Thesis and the Study of Public Services." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 21, no. 7 (July 1989): 905–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a210905.

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The relevance of the restructuring thesis for the analysis of recent changes in the structure of public services is considered. It is argued that recent changes in public services are far more complex than suggested by the notion of privatisation and that a variety of concepts previously applied to the study of manufacturing industries can also be applied to the study of public services. The concepts considered include intensification, rationalisation, technical change, and self-provisioning. The paper concludes with a research agenda for analysis of public service restructuring.

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Carter, Bob, Steven Davies, and Peter Fairbrother. "The Rise and Rise of Market Relations in the British Public Sector: Implications for Industrial Relations." Economic and Labour Relations Review 13, no. 1 (June 2002): 36–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/103530460201300103.

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Having outlined a traditional model of British public sector industrial relations, this article focuses on developments from the 1980s to 2001. It argues that there has been a reorganisation of the state through privatisation and an historical shift in employment relations, from the state as a ‘model’, administrative employer to an increasingly managerial employer. In effect, a depoliticisation of employment relations has taken place, with the withdrawal of central government from direct control over operational and organisational activity in the public services. As part of these processes, the public services in Britain have been marketised, with the creation of a public service sector, no longer defined by ownership but by the service provided. These developments are reflected in the changing patterns of industrial relations activity in the public services, with profound implications for trade unionism.

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Marty, Frédéric. "La privatisation des services publics : fondements et enjeux." Regards croisés sur l'économie 2, no. 2 (2007): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/rce.002.0090.

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Guttman, Daniel. "Privatisation, public purpose and private service." OECD Journal on Budgeting 2, no. 4 (May 21, 2003): 85–154. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/budget-v2-art23-en.

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Guttman, Daniel. "Privatisation, intérêt public et service privé." Revue de l'OCDE sur la gestion budgétaire 2, no. 4 (April 24, 2003): 97–178. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/budget-v2-art23-fr.

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Schulten, Thorsten, Torsten Brandt, and Christoph Hermann. "Liberalisation and privatisation of public services and strategic options for European trade unions." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 14, no. 2 (January 1, 2008): 295–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102425890801400209.

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This article argues that liberalisation and privatisation of public services in Europe have had a significant impact on employment and working conditions. Our basic hypothesis is that companies affected by growing competitive pressures increase efforts to reduce labour costs. The consequences are, on the one hand, the reduction of public sector employment and, on the other, a transformation of the traditional public sector labour relations regime (LRR). While employees were previously treated as a relatively homogenous workforce, liberalisation and privatisation have fuelled divisions, fragmentation and individualisation. In some sectors and countries this has led not only to a substantial deterioration of employment and working conditions but also to the emergence of a two-tier workforce. From this perspective liberalisation and privatisation represent a considerable threat to workers and therefore the trade unions, which have at their disposal a number of strategies to respond to the new challenges, including fighting privatisation, demanding strong sector-wide regulations and campaigning to strengthen the public sector.

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Gormley, William T., Kate Ascher, and E. S. Savas. "The Politics of Privatisation: Contracting out Public Services." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 8, no. 2 (1989): 354. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3323404.

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Rodríguez-Boetsch, Leopoldo. "Public service privatisation and crisis in Argentina." Development in Practice 15, no. 3-4 (June 2005): 302–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614520500076092.

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Alsaid, Loai Ali, and Jean Claude Mutiganda. "Political and business leaderships in managing public service organisation." Corporate Ownership and Control 15, no. 4 (2018): 18–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv15i4art2.

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This study analyses the relationship between the state’s political ideologies and the implementation of cost management strategies during the re-privatisation of a public sector organisation. Drawing on the Dillard et al.’s (2004) conceptual framework, we conducted a case study in a public sector organisation operating in the electricity market of Egypt. Data was gathered through document analysis, interviews, meetings observations and continuous interactions with key informants from 2013 to 2014. The findings show that the implementation of cost management strategies had a political basis, grounded in the state’s reformative ideologies concerning re-privatisation of the public sector organisation. The re-privatisation failed because the state failed to convince a potential international investor. A theoretical contribution is to show the relevance of cost management strategies when used as a political tool to achieve a business goal, such as improving a public sector organisation’s performance management in a developing country. This is the first empirical case study to analyse management accounting change based on the state’s political ideologies in the Maghreb region of Africa. The key difference between this global trend elsewhere and in the Egyptian State, as in some other Islamic countries, is that Egypt was both nationalistic and militarised.

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Whitfield, Dexter. "Impact of privatisation and commercialisation on municipal services in the UK." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 8, no. 2 (May 2002): 234–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102425890200800208.

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This article looks at the fundamental changes that have occurred in recent years in the area of public services in the United Kingdom, with a focus on those provided by local government. The various forms of privatisation and commercialisation that have been applied are described. In the second part the in many cases catastrophic impacts on users and workers, for democratic accountability and service quality are detailed. The article closes with a discussion of responses and alternatives.

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Barton, Ruth, and Peter Fairbrother. "‘We're Here to Make Money; We're Here to Do Business’: Privatisation and Questions for Trade Unions." Competition & Change 11, no. 3 (September 2007): 241–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/102452907x212410.

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Australia has been one of the world's leading proponents of privatisation. One of the key arguments about privatisation is that it would end the inefficient state monopoly of public services and reduce the power of public sector trade unions. Within a relatively short period of the privatisation of the energy and transport sectors in Victoria Australia, there was a reconsolidation of ownership which raised new challenges for the trade unions. After this phase, the main trade unions in these two sectors took steps to meet these new circumstances to renew and rebuild their structures and strengthen their capacity to challenge the new private oligopolies. Thus, paradoxically some unions were able to open up space to renew and rebuild in the post–privatisation world.

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Röber, Manfred. "Sack, Detlef (2019). Vom Staat zum Markt. Privatisierung aus politikwissenschaftlicher Sicht. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, XVII/379 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-658-26872-5; ISBN 978-3-658-26873-2 (eBook); https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-26873-2." der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management 13, no. 1-2020 (June 25, 2020): 241–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/dms.v13i1.12.

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The book by Detlef Sack provides a profound overview of the topic of “privatisation” from a political science perspective. First of all, different forms of privatisation are presented. Then the privatisation topic is placed in the context of political and economic theories. After an overview of the history of privatisation in Germany, Europe and selected countries in Africa and Asia, the author describes and analyses privatisation projects in various policy fields. He then points out the need for an effective regulatory regime for the privatisation of public tasks and services. In a next step, the economic, social and power-political effects of privatisation are outlined. Finally, current reactions to privatisation in the form of remunicipalisation and perspectives for further privatisation research in political science are presented. The book is characterized by a pleasant objectivity in dealing with a politically and scientifically often very controversially discussed topic and can therefore be recommended for reading to anyone interested in this subject.

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POWELL, MARTIN, and ROBIN MILLER. "Framing Privatisation in the English National Health Service." Journal of Social Policy 43, no. 3 (April 15, 2014): 575–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279414000269.

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AbstractThe debate on privatisation is central to social policy, yet it tends to generate more heat than light as definitions and operationalisations of ‘privatisation’ are often implicit, unclear and conflicting. This paper aims to explore the extent of privatisation in the NHS over three periods of government through the lens of three approaches of Mixed Economy of Welfare, Wheels of Welfare and Publicness. All have two dimensions of provision and finance in common, but Mixed Economy of Welfare and Publicness stress the third dimension, that of regulation, while Wheels of Welfare stresses decision. All three approaches agree that some policies in the NHS constitute privatisation, but there is some disagreement largely stemming from their differential stress on regulation or decision. It is important to introduce a degree of transparency in the debate which provides clear definitions and rationales. However, all approaches require further development which focuses on the important but neglected point of how different types of privatisation lead to different impacts on patients.

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Rahman, Redwanur. "The privatisation of healthcare system in Bangladesh." International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance 32, no. 1 (February 11, 2019): 97–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa-11-2017-0217.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that triggered the privatisation of Bangladesh’s health sector. Design/methodology/approach This study follows systematic reviews in its undertaking and is based on an extensive review of both published and unpublished documents. Different search engines and databases were used to collect the materials. The study takes into account of various research publications, journal articles, government reports, policy and planning documents, relevant press reports/articles, and reports and discussion papers from the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Findings While Bangladesh’s healthcare sector has undergone an increasing trend towards privatisation, this move has limited benefits on the overall improvement in the health of the people of Bangladesh. The public sector should remain vital, and the government must remobilise it to provide better provision of healthcare. Research limitations/implications The paper focusses only on the public policy aspect of privatisation in healthcare of a country. Practical implications The paper examines the issue of privatisation of healthcare and concludes that privatisation not only makes services more expensive, but also diminishes equity and accountability in the provision of services. The study, first, makes a spate of observations on improving public healthcare resources, which can be of value to key decision makers and stakeholders in the healthcare sector. It also discourages the move towards private sector interventions. Originality/value This study is an independent explanation of a country’s healthcare system. Lesson learned from this study could also be used for developing public policy in similar socio-economic contexts.

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Chambat, Pierre. "Service Public et Néolibéralisme." Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales 45, no. 3 (June 1990): 615–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/ahess.1990.278861.

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Traiter des rapports entre néolibéralisme et service public en France n'est pas une mince affaire . Nul doute qu'il y ait entre les deux termes une relation conflictuelle qui renvoie aux oppositions classiques État/marché, public/privé, administration/entreprise, logique sociale/logique marchande. Si le mouvement de déréglementation est un phénomène qui touche peu ou prou toutes les sociétés occidentales, il n'en reste pas moins qu'il se heurte en France à de fortes résistances qui's'arriment à la notion de service public. Dans le débat où s'opposent État/marché, logique sociale/logique d'entreprise, la notion de service public figure tout à la fois comme valeur sociale — la solidarité sert à justifier le refus de la privatisation, de la logique marchande ou de la dérégulation — et comme handicap économique — les obligations de service public engendrent des surcoûts et les protections réglementaires faussent les règles de la concurrence.

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Kuks, Stefan M. "The privatisation debate on water services in the Netherlands: public performance of the water sector and the implications of market forces." Water Policy 8, no. 2 (April 1, 2006): 147–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wp.2006.0010.

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Legally adopted in France and the UK, privatization of water services is still vigorously debated in the Netherlands. Advocates of privatization believe it is the best way to save on utility costs and to increase their transparency. Opponents believe that the Dutch water sector already provides high quality services for low prices, including an additional public performance that is expected to be excluded in a free market. The author argues that the performance of water service providers should not be assessed only in terms of efficiency, but in terms of the effects on the entire water system as well as the protection of small customers. It is quite possible that without privatization, a public agency could also improve its efficiency and become more competitive in relation to other service providers. Privatization seems to be more a matter of political ideology (based on a belief that the public sector operates inefficiently) than a matter of hard facts. The success of privatization depends at least on the performance of a complementary public regulatory regime. The question should not be whether the public or the private sector performs better hypothetically, but how the actual performance regarding public goods and services can be improved.

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Plane, Patrick. "La privatisation des services publics en Afrique subsaharienne Enjeux et incertitudes." Revue économique 47, no. 6 (November 1996): 1409. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3502600.

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Plane, Patrick. "La privatisation des services publics en Afrique subsaharienne. Enjeux et incertitudes." Revue économique 47, no. 6 (1996): 1409–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/reco.1996.409856.

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Davids, Cindy, and Linda Hancock. "Policing, Accountability and Citizenship in the Market State." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 31, no. 1 (April 1998): 38–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486589803100104.

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This paper investigates trends in the reform agenda for Victoria Police. These include the implementation of the concept of user pays, outsourcing of ‘non–core’ services, expanded privatisation, corporate sponsorship, customer service, flatter management structures, fixed term contracts for senior officers, and performance targets — changes identified with 1990s economic rationalism, managerialism and the market model. With implications for similar trends internationally, the paper unpacks what these reforms mean in terms of relationships between the community and police (including services, management, and organisation). It raises questions related to what constitutes core tasks of the state, state accountability to the public, public safety, the social costs of economic rationalism, managerialism and the microeconomic reforms of the 1990s. These signal shifts in governance, and changes in the relationship between the citizen and the state.

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Pollock, Allyson M., and Louisa Harding-Edgar. "Covid-19 and public health." Theory & Struggle 122, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 92–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/ts.2021.10.

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The UK has the highest death rate from Covid-19 in the world, and it is vulnerable groups who have suffered the most. This article describes the multiple failures of government that led to this tragedy. The depletion of and disinvestment in public health services, communicable disease control and community health services over decades meant those reliant on these services were failed. The fundamental tenets of public health were set aside, and public health expertise ignored, in favour of establishing a parallel, privatised system for epidemic control which failed expensively and spectacularly. Long-established principles of infectious disease control and rules and standards for scientific evaluation were not followed, and our ‘world-class scientists’ fatally departed from World Health Organisation advice. Covid has been used as a cover for more privatisation and less scrutiny and accountability. It has exposed the gap between rich and poor and erosion in our public services. However, rather than ameliorating inequalities, the government has presided over enormous inter- and intra-generational transfers of harms and risks from rich to poor and to those in institutional settings, and from older prosperous people to children. Above all, Covid has been a cover for enormous transfers of wealth from the public purse and public services to private interests — notably in health services. There is a political solution to the undermining of public health, commercial conflicts and lack of public accountability: the government must bring forward legislation to reinstate a publicly funded, publicly operated and fully integrated National Health and Care Service, and set out clear plans for reinvestment and restoring and rebuilding health and care services.

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Klein, Rudolf. "Book Reviews: The Politics of Privatisation: Contracting Out Public Services." Health Services Management Research 1, no. 3 (November 1988): 183–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095148488800100308.

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Crouch, Colin. "9. The Paradoxes of Privatisation and Public Service Outsourcing." Political Quarterly 86 (December 2015): 156–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-923x.12238.

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Bieler, Andreas, and Jamie Jordan. "Commodification and ‘the commons’: The politics of privatising public water in Greece and Portugal during the Eurozone crisis." European Journal of International Relations 24, no. 4 (September 22, 2017): 934–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066117728383.

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In response to the Eurozone crisis, austerity and restructuring has been imposed on the European Union’s peripheral member states in order to receive financial bailout loans. In addition to cuts in funding for essential public services, cuts in public sector employment and the further liberalisation of labour markets, this has also included pressure towards the privatisation of state assets. Yet, workers have not simply accepted these restructuring pressures; rather, they have organised and fought back against austerity and enforced privatisation. Based on a historical-materialist perspective and following a strategy of incorporated comparison, in this article, we will comparatively assess the struggles against enforced water privatisation in Greece and Portugal set against the background of the structuring conditions surrounding the Eurozone crisis.

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Moks, Marcin. "Swedish health care system – some trends of its reforming." Oeconomia Copernicana 1, no. 1 (December 31, 2010): 151–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/oec.2010.009.

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The constant increase in public health expenditure, which is being observed from the 60s, initiated research into way to optimize it. The aim the article is to show concepts of the health reforms which have been applied in the Swedish health service. In the article are presented main proposals of changes in the system financing and service provision. Article characterizes patient participation in costs of services, private health insurance, privatisation of health care facilities, purchase-provider split and providers reimbursement. The articles begins with the overview of concepts related to health care system reform. Next, the health system in Sweden is shortly presented. The main part of the article presents the reforms which has been implemented in the financing and services provision. Patients’ participation in financing of the health system has been extended by fees for service. The importance of private medical insurance is marginal. Purchaser-provider split has been introduced in most of counties. In general primary care facilities have been privatised. In regard to service providers reimbursement is generally used global budgeting, feed for service or diagnosis-related groups.

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Eliassen, Kjell A., and Johan From. "Deregulation, privatisation and public service delivery: Universal service in telecommunications in Europe." Policy and Society 27, no. 3 (February 2009): 239–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polsoc.2008.10.001.

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Annison, Jill, Lol Burke, and Paul Senior. "Transforming Rehabilitation: Another example of English ‘exceptionalism’ or a blueprint for the rest of Europe?" European Journal of Probation 6, no. 1 (April 2014): 6–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2066220314529053.

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The Transforming Rehabilitation agenda represents a radical departure in the way that rehabilitative services are delivered in England and Wales. Under the proposed changes, the existing Probation Trusts will be replaced by a significantly smaller National Probation Service dealing with the rump of high-risk public protection cases. The supervision and delivery of services to those offenders assessed as low and medium risk will be contracted to a range of providers on a payment by results basis. In this introduction to the special edition of the European Journal of Probation, the authors trace the policy developments that have extended the scope of the privatisation of state services in England and Wales. They then consider the values underpinning these developments and the potential impact on probation work before finally exploring the ways in which the current debate over the future of the probation service in England and Wales are being constructed and responses to this crisis shaped. This is organised into four interrelated arguments – the evidence response; the implementation response; the media response and the reclaim response.

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Stubbs, J. G., and J. R. Barnett. "The Geographically Uneven Development of Privatisation: Towards a Theoretical Approach." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 24, no. 8 (August 1992): 1117–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a241117.

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Over the least decade a plethora of privatisation policies have been initiated in many countries of the world both at national level and at local level. Few attempts, however, have been made to analyse, within a theoretical framework, the geographically uneven development of privatisation policies both within, and between, regions and nation-states. This paper is an examination of the uneven growth between regional hospital authorities in the private contracting of public hospital ancillary services in New Zealand. A significant, if somewhat surprising, finding is that, after a surge in privatisation in the early 1980s, the process has virtually stagnated in the last few years. Possible reasons for this, and the more general spatial uneven development of this form of privatisation, are advanced and, on the basis of this study, some avenues for further research are indicated.

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Ludlow, Amy. "Transforming Rehabilitation: What lessons might be learned from prison privatisation?" European Journal of Probation 6, no. 1 (April 2014): 67–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2066220314524115.

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Drawing upon empirical data collected during HMP Birmingham’s privatisation in 2011, this article explores the prospects of competition increasing performance in the delivery of ‘probation services’ in England and Wales. The constraints and challenges that stem from the public procurement rules and their manner of implementation are highlighted, alongside the adverse impacts that competition can have upon organisational culture. Together with current evidence about the (mixed) performance of privately managed prisons, the article argues that the Government’s faith in competition as a panacea solution to improve public services is misplaced and that too few lessons are being learned from commissioning mistakes.

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Benito, Bernardino, María-Dolores Guillamón, and Ana-María Ríos. "Public Management Versus Private Management in the Provision of Drinking Water: What is the Cheapest?" Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government 16, no. 2 (April 24, 2018): 271–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.4335/16.2.271-292(2018).

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Advocates of the privatisation/outsourcing of public sector services defend the cost savings and greater efficiency derived from this type of management. In this sense, many local governments have opted to outsource the provision of some public services. However, empirical evidence for cost savings in the provision of public services is mixed. Accordingly, we analyze if the effective cost of drinking water provision depends on the type of management carried out by the local government for a sample of more than 3,500 Spanish municipalities. We find that provision of drinking water is cheaper if it is managed directly by the local government. Therefore, our results suggest that the provision of services privately does not always guarantee cost savings.

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Loumède, Catherine. "Compte rendu critique du Rapport d’étape de la recherche sur la privatisation." Nouvelles pratiques sociales 6, no. 1 (January 22, 2008): 201–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/301210ar.

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Résumé Ce texte est un compte rendu critique du Rapport d'étape de la recherche sur la privatisation des services de santé et des services sociaux dont le texte précédent constituait l'une des sections. Après avoir résumé les principales idées du Rapport, l'auteure s'arrête sur les propositions concernant le « tiers secteur communautaire » et soulève des questions au sujet des rapports entre ce secteur communautaire et le secteur public.

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Guy, Simon, and Simon Marvin. "Wasser als Ware." PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft 26, no. 102 (March 1, 1996): 37–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v26i102.933.

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Privatisation of British water services has dramatically reconfigurcd both production and consumption intercsts. While critics such as John Ernst decry a growing service inequity, PeterSaunders and Colin Harris celebrate enhanced consumer benefits. Closer investigation of new styles of utility network management reveal spatially complex patterns of social, econornic and environmental change. While worries over the social and public health implications of water poverly grow, the environrnental dividends of privatised water supply become clearer. The paper identifies two recently emcrging logics of networks management; the first prioritises thc shaping of demand over the expansion of supply capacity; the second prioritises the recovery of water charges over the social am! health needs of low income households. These logics highlight powerful resonanccs and dissonances between the economic and environmental bencfits of the commodification process and the social and health costs associated with a sharpening polarisation in access to basic water services.

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Bayliss, Kate. "Utility privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of water." Journal of Modern African Studies 41, no. 4 (December 2003): 507–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x03004415.

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Over the past twenty years, the focus of development policy has shifted from the state to the private sector. Privatisation is now central to utility reform in much of SSA. This paper sets out developments in water privatisation and reviews the evidence regarding its impact. Water privatisation has been carried out to some degree in at least fourteen countries in the region, and many other governments are at various stages in the privatisation process. However, in some cases privatisation has been difficult to achieve, and a few countries have successfully provided water under public ownership. Evidence on the impact of privatisation indicates that the performance of privatised utilities has not changed dramatically, but that enterprises have continued to perform well, or not so well, depending both on their state when they were privatised and on the wider economic context. The evidence points to internal improvements in terms of financial management. However, governments face considerable difficulties in attracting investors and regulating private utilities. Furthermore, privatisation fails to address some of the fundamental constraints affecting water utilities in SSA, such as finance, the politicised nature of service delivery, and lack of access for the poor. A preoccupation with ownership may obscure the wider goals of reform.

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Maconachie, Glenda. "Preparing for Privatisation? Emotion and Client Service in the Public Sector." International Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Change Management: Annual Review 5, no. 2 (2006): 39–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1447-9524/cgp/v05i02/49487.

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Glynn, D. R., W. R. Baker, C. A. Jones, and J. L. Liesner. "Economic Issues in Water Privatisation and Regulation." Water Science and Technology 26, no. 7-8 (October 1, 1992): 1921–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.1992.0637.

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During the privatisation of the United Kingdom water and sewerage industry a wide range of important and challenging practical economic issues were encountered, many of which also arise in some form or other throughout the developed and developing worlds. One such issue is the control of the prices charged for public water supply and sewerage, sewage treatment and disposal services. This paper explores some of those issues, analyses how privatisation and regulation have been shaped in order to address them, and, where possible, evaluates performance so far. Where appropriate, examples of how similar issues have been tackled are given for other countries, including the US and France.

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Carbonnier, Gilles. "Privatisation de la guerre et sous-traitance des services publics : défis pour l’action humanitaire." Annuaire suisse de politique de développement, no. 24-2 (October 1, 2005): 117–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/aspd.354.

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White, Kevin, and Fran Collyer. "To market, to market: Corporatisation, privatisation and hospital costs." Australian Health Review 20, no. 2 (1997): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah970013.

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The Australian political arena echoes with calls for the privatisation of health careinstitutions, the contracting-out of health care services and the introduction of variousmarketing strategies into hospital management. These calls are justified by assertingthat the market, rather than the public sector, can provide better services, greaterproductivity and increased efficiency. The National Health Strategy (1991, p 17)provides a good example. Noting that Australia is copying American investment trendsfor hospital ?chains? rather than for independent small establishments, the strategydismisses any concern over changes in ownership, pointing instead to a ?process ofrationalisation? that is to be ?welcomed?. Using evidence from the United States,United Kingdom and Australian hospital sectors, this paper examines claims for thegreater efficiency of market processes.

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Walker, Carl, Kepa Artaraz, Mary Darking, Ceri Davies, Stephanie Fleischer, Rebecca Graber, Shadreck Mwale, Ewen Speed, Jenny Terry, and Anna Zoli. "Building spaces for controversial public engagement – Exploring and challenging democratic deficits in NHS marketization." Journal of Social and Political Psychology 6, no. 2 (December 21, 2018): 759–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v6i2.902.

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The Brighton Citizen's Health Services Survey (BCHSS) was developed to explore and potentially challenge how knowledge is used and by whom in the production of local health commissioning institutions and relations. Through the creation of an ‘animating set of questions’, it sought to open up spaces through which to make visible some of the ways of knowing and valuing the NHS and health services that had been minimised through the commensuration practices of post-2012 public engagement. In this way there was a clear agenda to facilitate a form of knowledge democratisation which opened up and validated different 'health publics’, in order to explore and broaden participative engagement opportunities. The paper provides an account of the project. It considers the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of this example of ‘evidence-based activism’, reflects on the impact of the project on local commissioning and considers the range of controversies that arose as a result of the work. It explores the way that research straddling the boundary between academic inquiry and political activism speaks to the many issues that are prevalent in the changing HE sector as well as NHS privatisation, health commissioning and public sector cuts.

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Balazard, Hélène, and Robert Fisher. "The “big society” in the United Kingdom: privatisation or democratisation of public services." Revue française d'administration publique 163, no. 3 (2017): 507. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/rfap.163.0507.

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Sheil, Christopher. "Book Reviews : State of Siege: Renewal or Privatisation for Australian State Public Services?" Journal of Industrial Relations 33, no. 2 (June 1991): 268–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002218569103300209.

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Wang, Huanming, Rui Mu, and Shuyan Liu. "The effects of privatisation on the equity of public services: evidence from China." Policy & Politics 46, no. 3 (July 27, 2018): 427–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557317x14938075758967.

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Lyons, Mark. "THE PRIVATISATION OF HUMAN SERVICES IN AUSTRALIA: HAS IT HAPPENED?" Australian Journal of Public Administration 53, no. 2 (June 1994): 179–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8500.1994.tb01878.x.

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Foster, Debbie, and Graham Taylor. "Reinventing the Wheel? Privatisation and the Crisis of Public Service Trade Unionism." Management Research News 17, no. 7/8/9 (July 1994): 114–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb028383.

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Cella, Gian Primo. "Citizenship, the market and democracy." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 14, no. 2 (January 1, 2008): 333–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102425890801400211.

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The recent waves of privatisation and liberalisation have affected not only forms of economic regulation but also the very nature of citizenship and democracy. It is one thing to privatise a bank or airline; while it is quite another for government to withdraw from directly delivering public welfare services or from the major public utilities. This article analyses the way in which the latest phase of liberalisation and privatisation has transformed the very nature of that citizenship which, in the vision of T. H. Marshall, made it possible to construct a genuine industrial citizenship. To this end we develop the thinking and research which led some to speak of the advent of ‘post-democracy’. The argument that the opportunities granted by ‘exit’ (typical of market choice) are overestimated proves to be the crucial one, especially where the quality of social services are concerned. We therefore revisit Hirschman's well-known ‘exit/voice’ model before, in the concluding section, making a few proposals as to how a fresh approach could be taken to the problem of choosing between forms of regulation, in which a significant role could be played by ‘encompassing’ organisations such as major trade union confederations.

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