A policy of school choice has, in various shapes, been implemented in educational systems
across the world during the last decades. Drawing on various empirical and theoretical …

Two related concepts have been used to understand the welfare state–'decommodification'
and the 'workfare'or the 'competition'state, as it relates to processes of 'recommodification'. I …

Intuitively, organisations can easily be categorised as 'public'or 'private'. However, this book
questions such a black and white dichotomy between public and private, and seeks a …

Deliberative democracy has become the central reference point for democracy theorists over
the last decade or so, influencing normative frameworks and the ways we conceptualize the …

During the 1990s, the Swedish welfare state was declared by some to be in a “crisis”, due to
both financial strain and loss of political support. Others have argued that the spending cuts …

Controversy exists regarding whether recent changes in the organization of the public
services in the UK and elsewhere constitute a paradigm shift towards a post‐bureaucratic …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Inclusive Education Policy, Contexts and Comparative Perspectives
Edited by Felicity Armstrong, Derrick Armstrong and Len Barton Routledge Taylor & Francis …

In the early 1990s the Swedish welfare system was struck by capital flight and a national
financial crisis creating severe problems for the Swedish economy. This crisis became the …

Public private partnerships provide an important illustration of the way the traditional role of
government as employer and service provider is being transformed. While policy–makers …

This major new text on the theory and practice of public management moves away from
descriptive accounts of its evolution to provide a systematic treatment of the key paradigms …