Public or private goods? : redefining res publica
Legitimized by the arguments of efficiency gains, public housing, pensions, unemployment insurance and health care are all being gradually privatized. The book explores core public tasks that the state has traditionally provided but which are increasingly privatized and subsumed into the private sector.
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Contents: Foreword1. IntroductionBrigitte Unger, Loek Groot and Daan van der Linde2. Value Based Demarcation Between the Public and the Private DomainKlaas van EgmondPart I Traditional Core Tasks of the State: Security3. The Fight against Money Laundering: A Public Task?Joras Ferwerda4. Natural Disasters and (Future) Government DebtIan KoetsierPart II New Core Tasks: Social Security5. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Pension System DesignsIan Koetsier6. Pension Provision: (Still) a Public Task?Florian Blank7. Protection Against Unemployment – A Res Publica? Brigitte Unger8. More Health Care or More Beer? A Curious Paradox of Making Some Economic Tasks a Res PublicaFrans van Waarden9. ECEC: Childcare Markets in the Netherlands and England Trudie Knijn and Jane LewisPart III Public Goods10. Housing Policy and Spatial Inequality: Recent Insights from Vienna and AmsterdamGerlinde Gutheil-Knopp-Kirchwald and Justin Kadi11. Funding of Protected Areas: A Purely Public Task? Grazia Withalm12. The Role of Governments in Conserving and Funding Cultural Institutions Michael Getzner 13. Income Distribution as a Public Task: The Redistributive Preferences of (Mis)informed Voters Daan van der Linde14. ConclusionsBrigitte Unger, Michael Getzner and Daan van der LindeIndex
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Contributors include: F. Blank, G. Bonvissuto, J. Ferwerda, M. Getzner, G. Gutheil-Knopp-Kirchwald, J. Kadi, T. Knijn, I. Koetsier, J. Lewis, B. Unger, D. van der Linde, K. van Egmond, F. van Waarden
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