Background The effects of outsourcing health services to for-profit providers are contested,
with some arguing that introducing such providers will improve performance through …

Social care services are commonly delivered by a combination of for-profit, public, and non-
profit sector providers. These services are often commissioned in quasi-markets, in which …

Following the economic recession and resulting financial cuts to English education budgets
introduced in 2010, the number of local authority educational psychology teams adopting a …

Policymakers now have four decades' experience using marketization to address cost and
quality problems in public‐sector health services. While much is known about the …

Most residential children's social care services in England, including children's homes, are
operated by for-profit companies, but the implications of this development are not well …

Across Europe, market mechanisms are spreading into areas where they did not exist
before. In public administration, market governance is displacing other ways of coordinating …

In recent years, geographers have paid attention to the practices and spaces of care, yet
museums rarely feature in this body of literature. Drawing on research conducted with two …

Policy recommendations, which aim to reduce health inequalities in society, often focus
upon improving the incomes, working conditions and physical environments of the most …

How do markets function? Who creates, shapes and organizes them? And what do they
mean for the relationship between labour and capital? Marketization examines how the state …

The national health services (NHS) of England, Portugal, Finland and other single-payer
universalist systems financed by general taxation, are based on the theoretical principle of …