Down from Bureaucracy : the Ambiguity of Privatization and Empowerment

Summary: Throughout the world, politicians are dismantling state enterprises and heaping praise on private markets, while in the United States a new rhetoric of "citizen empowerment" links a widespread distrust of government to decentralization and privatization. Here Joel Handler asks whether this restructuring of authority really allows ordinary citizens to take more control of the things that matter in their roles as parents and children, teachers and students, tenants and owners, producers and consumers. Looking at citizens as stakeholders in the modern social welfare state created by the New Deal.

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ISBN: 9781400821983
ISBN: 1400821983
Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 pages)
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Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.

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