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The Privatization of Human Services

Policy and Practice Issues Volume I

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Margaret Gibelman
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  2. Harold W. Demone
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Theory, Practice, and Experience in the Purchase of Services

    • Margaret Gibelman
    Pages 1-51

  3. Evaluating State Mental Health Care Reform: The Case of Privatization of State Mental Services in Massachusetts

    • Dow A. Wieman, Robert A. Dorwart
    Pages 53-78

  4. Purchase of Service and Fostered Failure: A Massachusetts Case Study

    • Paul S. Regan
    Pages 79-95

  5. Contracting for Alcohol and Drug Treatment: Implications for Public Management

    • Steven Rathgeb Smith
    Pages 97-115

  6. Church, State, and Social Welfare: Purchase of Service and the Sectarian Agency

    • Eric M. Levine
    Pages 117-153

  7. Fears Betrayed: Initial Impressions of Contracting for United Kingdom Social Services

    • James Richardson, Richard Gutch
    Pages 155-182

  8. Accountability in Purchase-of-Service Contracting

    • Peter Kettner, Lawrence Martin
    Pages 183-204

  9. The Political Future of Privatization

    • Harold W. Demone Jr.
    Pages 205-244

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 245-256
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About this book

No reader of professional journals, agency reports, or the daily press needs to be told that Professors Gibelman and Demone have assembled a vol­ ume of contributions to a very lively debate. The two words highlighted, "privatization" and "contracting," sum up the prescriptions of many for social service reform and the anxieties of others who question the new strategies. The pace and scale of developments over the past 2 decades sometimes allows us to forget that the subject has a long history. Privatization may be thought of as involving public turnover to the private sector of responsi­ bility for services it has been delivering. Or it may be the public sector arranging for the private sector to take on new services that the public wishes to encourage or for which it accepts responsibility. The transaction usually involves public funds. The historical story, however, is not one of public temporal primacy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Privatization of Human Services

  • Book Subtitle: Policy and Practice Issues Volume I

  • Editors: Margaret Gibelman, Harold W. Demone

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-30309-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-8261-9870-9Published: 01 January 1998

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-30309-2Published: 09 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 256

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Services, Social Work

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