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Examining the role of the modern nation state, Dexter Whitfield
assesses the achievements, failures, costs and benefits of the
neo-liberal and 'third way' transformation of the state. He
demonstrates that private finance of infrastructure, marketisation
of government and privatisation of the welfare state are
accelerating the globalisation process and generating ever larger
financial, social and environmental crises. Whitfield analyses
current trends which are exacerbated by the marketisation and
partnership agenda advocated by global bodies such as the World
Bank, IMF and WTO. He reveals how these policies further reduce the
capacity of the state in the global economy, its ability to provide
good quality public services and inevitably create a corporate
welfare complex. Within a framework for understanding the extent,
scale and impact of the transformation of the state, the author
forecasts the implications of the continuation of current policies.
New Labour is creating markets in public services on an
unprecedented scale. Education, health and social care, children's
services, housing, planning and regeneration, the criminal justice
system and the welfare state are all being marketised. It has gone
well beyond even Tory expectations of the 1990s.Privatisation
inevitably follows marketisation, eroding democratic accountability
and embedding business interests. The impact will be far reaching.
Any benefits in terms of economic, social and sustainable
development that are gained through regional strategies and city
regions could evaporate if market forces are allowed to run rampant
across the public sector.As this timely book makes clear, action by
alliances of trade unions, community organisations and civil
society organisations is urgently required.
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