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072 7 _aPOL028000
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082 0 4 _a361.941
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aLe Grand, Julian
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Other Invisible Hand :
_bDelivering Public Services through Choice and Competition /
_cJulian Le Grand.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2007
300 _a1 online resource (208 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter 1. Ends and Means --
_tChapter 2. Choice and Competition --
_tChapter 3. School Education --
_tChapter 4. Health Care --
_tChapter 5. New Ideas --
_tChapter 6. The Politics of Choice --
_tAfterwords: An American Perspective --
_tAfterwords: A Sceptic's Perspective --
_tFurther Reading --
_tBibliography
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aHow can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education? Governments spend huge amounts of public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are actually delivered are often low quality, inefficiently run, unresponsive to their users, and inequitable in their distribution. In this book, Julian Le Grand argues that the best solution is to offer choice to users and to encourage competition among providers. Le Grand has just completed a period as policy advisor working within the British government at the highest levels, and from this he has gained evidence to support his earlier theoretical work and has experienced the political reality of putting public policy theory into practice. He examines four ways of delivering public services: trust; targets and performance management; "voice"; and choice and competition. He argues that, although all of these have their merits, in most situations policies that rely on extending choice and competition among providers have the most potential for delivering high-quality, efficient, responsive, and equitable services. But it is important that the relevant policies be appropriately designed, and this book provides a detailed discussion of the principal features that these policies should have in the context of health care and education. It concludes with a discussion of the politics of choice.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General.
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700 1 _aEnthoven, Alain
_eautore
700 1 _aLipsey, David
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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