Water: from a common good “par excellence” to the challenge of new relationship between public and The article presents intersection concept common, via emblematic case struggles for human right water against privatisation commodification. Reinventing contributes both elaboration an alternative social economic imagery discussion about heritage, including cultural one.

Abstract The use of private consultants in child protection investigations Sweden is an evolving practice that occurs under the radar; it not political agenda and obscure relation to legislation. aim this article analyse contextual forces, facilitators intentions behind ongoing implementation privatisation investigations. For article, both quantitative qualitative data for years 2013–2017 were ...

This paper considers the technical efficiency gains that have been achieved since privatisation of the British passenger railway. This is done through estimation of a stochastic efficiency frontier, with efficiency gains split between those arising through technical change and those arising out of management technical performance i.e. total factor productivity. The results suggest that most of ...

This paper reviews experience of using the private sector for undertaking road maintenance in developing countries. It identifies the various organisational options for the client and supplier roles, key factors in establishing a competitive environment and building contract maintenance capacity, and the potential cost savings therefrom. It includes the following key messages: • The private sec...

The development of the neo-liberal state form in Britain during the 1980s has been characterised by liberalisation, deregulation, privatisation and commodification, placing issues of redistribution and social welfare secondary to the demands of business and enterprise. This active neo-liberal strategy has also, although explicitly non-interventionist, been characterised by a strong, centralised...

This paper considers the political activity of economic actors in what we refer to as ‘overlap issues.’ Such issues consist of two separate, but related, domestic and supranational decisions that are taken at both levels of European governance. Examined here are the domestic level privatisation policy-making processes in Spain, France and Ireland, and the subsequent European Commission decision...

Introduction The countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) and the Russian Federation have all embarked, with varying degrees of success, upon significant economic changes from centrally-planned, partly ‘closed’ economies, to more open free-market economies. Consequently, free-market systems for raising revenues for public sector activities have had to be developed and implemented. Under ...