Public and private welfare

Burchardt, Tania; Obolenskaya, Polina

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“…A different three-dimensional view was set out by Burchardt (1997), and developed in subsequent publications (e.g., Smithies, 2005; Edmiston, 2011; Burchardt, 2013). She develops a typology of welfare services based on ‘wheels of welfare’ and attempts to illustrate its use by clarifying discussions about the privatisation of welfare and by analysing changes in expenditure.…”

Section: ‘Wheels Of Welfare’ (Wow) Perspectivesmentioning

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“…Burchardt (2013) explains ‘decision’ as an element of ‘purchase’ which has two components: the funding of the service and the decision about which provider or how much of the service to buy. Burchardt (1997, 2013) refers to the third dimension as ‘decision’, but Edmiston (2011) terms it control, which appears to bring the typology closer to publicness terminology. Burchardt (1997) discusses, but ultimately rejects, the dimension of regulation as it is not clear that regulation constitutes a dimension which is independent of provision and finance as all welfare providers are subject to regulation to a greater or lesser extent.…”

Section: ‘Wheels Of Welfare’ (Wow) Perspectivesmentioning

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“…Burchardt (1997, 2013) refers to the third dimension as ‘decision’, but Edmiston (2011) terms it control, which appears to bring the typology closer to publicness terminology. Burchardt (1997) discusses, but ultimately rejects, the dimension of regulation as it is not clear that regulation constitutes a dimension which is independent of provision and finance as all welfare providers are subject to regulation to a greater or lesser extent. She differentiates the ‘pure public’ category (i.e., tax-financed, publicly provided services under public decision-making) from the ‘other end of the spectrum’ of the ‘pure private’ (free-market) category, but also points to ‘contracting out’ (private provision, public finance and decision) and ‘voucher-type schemes’ (public finance, private decision and either public or private provision).…”

Section: ‘Wheels Of Welfare’ (Wow) Perspectivesmentioning

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“…This paper aims to provide some clarity on the topic by exploring the extent of privatisation in the NHS through three different frames or lenses: the Mixed Economy of Welfare (MEW) (Powell, 2007, 2008), ‘Wheels of Welfare’ (WoW) (Burchardt, 1997) and Publicness (e.g., Bozeman, 1987). It discusses perspectives on privatisation in general before examining the three approaches in more detail.…”

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Framing Privatisation in the English National Health Service

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Miller

2014

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The debate on privatisation is central to social policy, yet it tends to generate more heat than light as definitions and operationalisations of ‘privatisation’ are often implicit, unclear and conflicting. This paper aims to explore the extent of privatisation in the NHS over three periods of government through the lens of three approaches of Mixed Economy of Welfare, Wheels of Welfare and Publicness. All have two dimensions of provision and finance in common, but Mixed Economy of Welfare and Publicness stress the third dimension, that of regulation, while Wheels of Welfare stresses decision. All three approaches agree that some policies in the NHS constitute privatisation, but there is some disagreement largely stemming from their differential stress on regulation or decision. It is important to introduce a degree of transparency in the debate which provides clear definitions and rationales. However, all approaches require further development which focuses on the important but neglected point of how different types of privatisation lead to different impacts on patients.

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Section: ‘Wheels Of Welfare’ (Wow) Perspectivesmentioning

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2014

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“…Although the amounts of actual privatisation have been relatively small (see for instance Burchardt et al , 1999;Power and Whitty, 2000), the emphasis on choice in education policies has drawn attention away from the public sphere and onto the private sphere. It has brought about a refocusing of research:…”

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Markets and Misogyny: Educational Research on Educational Choice

Power

2006

British Journal of Educational Studies

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This paper has arisen from a concern that much recent policy-related research on markets displays misogynistic tendencies. In both the media and academic accounts it would appear as though the blame for social and educational inequalities can now be laid at the door of women -particularly middle-class mothers. Through examining competing perspectives on how we might understand this attribution of blame, this paper argues that their guilt is best explained not through changes in behaviour but through the conjuncture of shifts in education policy and related research. These shifts have turned the attention of research away from the public domain of the state and the organisational and cultural attributes of schools to focus on the private domain of domestic decision-making. But the representations of these public and private domains are underpinned by unexamined gendered and ideological subtexts which have limited our powers of description and explanation. The paper concludes by suggesting strategies through which we might both address the tacit misogyny in research on markets and develop more sophisticated accounts of contemporary changes.

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Public and private welfare

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Framing Privatisation in the English National Health Service

Framing Privatisation in the English National Health Service

Markets and Misogyny: Educational Research on Educational Choice

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