Privileging privatisation: accounting practices and state transformation in the UK
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How do accounting practices interact with processes of state transformation? Focusing on the privatisation social housing in UK, we clarify an important mechanism through which served to constitute material incentives favour privatisation. Our archival research demonstrates that UK government’s atypical practice including public corporations’ liabilities its own debt calculations shaped discussions and decisions over transfer stock non-state Housing Associations 1980s. By unpacking constitutive relationship between incentives, advance bring together scholarship transformation politics accounting.
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عنوان ژورنال: British Politics
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1746-9198', '1746-918X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41293-021-00190-8