Discourse in Comparative Policy Analysis: Privatisation Policies in Britain, Russia and the United States

Abstract

Privatisation has been of the most widely used and extensively debated policies in the world for the last quarter century. This phenomenon, though, is mostly unified by rhetoric, and substantially varies across time and space, particularly in implementation. To answer the question of what presupposes a choice of particular mechanism of privatisation, three distinct cases of privatisation (the US, the UK, and Russia) are analysed through Fischer's (1995) model of practical policy deliberation. The model tests the reasons for policy ranging from its technical efficiency to its relation to the ideological principles that justify the societal system. The elaborated theory suggests that privatisation policies generally pursue multiple goals, with the prevailing goal being determined by the dominant discourse in which the topic of privatisation is debated in society. The prevailing goal, in turn, determines the privatisation mechanism that maximises this particular goal.

Safe water, household income and health challenges in Ugandan homes that harvest rainwater

“…This was primarily because of the importance of large facilities that could enable the storage of large quantities of water throughout the dry season and which can ensure an optimum and adequate supply of sustainable safe water in households. At the same time, in local or intemational marketplaces, water is traded in large quantities as a commodity to augment national or household consumption needs and, in some countries, the supply of water is privatised to improve delivery (Gabrielyan, 2006;Marques, 2006;Hall & Lobina, 2007;Kazimbaya-Senkwe & Guy, 2007;Botto et al, 2011). This study found tank size to be statistically significant.…”