Restating the State?ISBN: 978-1-4051-2454-6
Paperback
172 pages
December 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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In his essay “The end of laissez-faire”, Keynes
distinguished between the agenda and the non-agenda of government.
This book asks how we interpret that distinction today.
- A ground-breaking collection concerned with rethinking the
contemporary role of the state.
- Comprises essays written by leading scholars and
politicians.
- Looks back at the expansion of the social democratic state in
post-war Britain, and at the subsequent challenge to this from
neo-liberal ideas and policies.
- Discusses new doctrines for managing the state, new conceptions
of the state, and new ideas for organising the delivery of public
services.
- Covers current concepts, such as the enabling state, and
topical issues such as public private partnerships.
- Goes beyond traditional ‘state versus market’
arguments.
- Opens up new conceptual and practical territory.