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Power and Privatization

Choice and Competition in the Remaking of British Democracy

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  • © 1996

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  1. Joel D. Wolfe

    1. University of Cincinnati, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Joel D. Wolfe
    Pages 1-6

  3. Explaining the Politics of Privatization

    • Joel D. Wolfe
    Pages 7-26

  4. The Collapse of Social Democracy

    • Joel D. Wolfe
    Pages 27-45

  5. The New Right and State Power

    • Joel D. Wolfe
    Pages 46-65

  6. Power and the Public Sector Sell-off

    • Joel D. Wolfe
    Pages 66-95

  7. Regulation and Control

    • Joel D. Wolfe
    Pages 96-125

  8. Deregulation and Competition as Control

    • Joel D. Wolfe
    Pages 126-145

  9. Commercializing Association: the Reform of Union Power

    • Joel D. Wolfe
    Pages 146-170

  10. The Privatization of Democracy

    • Joel D. Wolfe
    Pages 171-185

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 186-209
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This book shows that privatization in Britain constitutes a form of state power. After analyzing the historical and ideological background, the study examines how market processes indirectly extend state control by governing participation in state asset sales, regulatory regimes, deregulated policymaking and the marketization of trade unions. Privatizing control remade British democracy. Direct state power has been concentrated and held in reserve, while market processes guide wide areas of routine decision-making. Thus, it is demonstrated that privatization has depoliticized choice and diminished freedom.

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    Joel D. Wolfe

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