Privatization and the welfare state/edited by Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Khan

This book is one of several volumes based on activities sponsored by the Project on the Federal Social Role.. The project was a nonprofit, nonpartisan enterprise established in 1983 to stimulate innovative thinkling about the future directions of federal social policy.
Looking at the theory and practice of privatization in its broadest manifesta tions, the contributors to this volume scrutmize the combination of public and private imitiatives that makes up the pres em US. social sector. As they discuss pri watization both in production and delivery of services and in financing, they reveal complexities that have been ignored in re cem seningical arguments. This book, while warning about political misuse of privatization, offers an unusually rigorous definition and theory of the concept and presens a number of case studies that show how public and private sectors var mushy cooperate, compete, or complement one another in social programs and how warious systems have accommodated to the privatization theroric that has come to the fore under the Reagan administration.