Overview
- Argues that we should consider the political effects of privatization
- Contends that welfare industries can rely on power resources that provide them with a privileged access to policy makers
- Investigates whether welfare industry power can explain the growth of private provision of social policies
- Demonstrates that existing theories of welfare state change should consider private providers as a new interest group
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- welfare state politics
- private sector providers
- privatization
- National Health Service NHS
- life insurance industry
- pension providers
- power resources index
- Welfare industry
- marketization
- welfare state reforms
- private pensions
- privatization of social policy provision
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Department of Health
- Deutsche Krankenhausgesellschaft
- Deutsche Volksfürsorge
- Gesamtverband der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft (GDV)
- public policy provision
- social policy
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Private Sector Providers in the Welfare State
Authors: Jonas Pieper
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62563-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62562-1Published: 08 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87343-5Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62563-8Published: 23 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 181
Topics: Public Policy, Social Policy, Public Administration