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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $21.00
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Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jonathan Coopersmith
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.79320947
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Publication Date: 1992-11
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Reading Level: 288
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Price: $69.00
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Sale: $50.36
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Manufacturer: Pennwell Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Denise Warkentin
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Publisher: Pennwell Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7932
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Publication Date: 1998-05
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Reading Level: 239
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Description: The electric power industry is undergoing the greatest transformation in its 100-year history. In readable, concise fashion author Denise Warkentin explains how the electric industry works! After briefly tracing the history of the industry, she details shareholder-owned, consumer-owned utilities, as well as rural cooperatives and independent power producers. Other issues addressed include deregulation, the emergence of energy marketers, and the flurry of mergers, acquisitions, and consolidations now ongoing.
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Price: $62.95
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Sale: $40.46
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Manufacturer: Michigan State University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Michigan State University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.6
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Publication Date: 2002-07
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Reading Level: 360
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Description: For the past several decades, a climate of deregulation has encompassed industries ranging from public utilities to mass transportation. Harry Martin Trebing has been at the forefront of this debate as one of the foremost specialists in the world in the field of public utility regulation. Samuels and Miller have collected a series of articles that assess Trebing's theories on public utility regulation while examining his towering contribution to the field.
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Price: $129.00
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Sale: $39.95
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 361.61094
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Publication Date: 2002-08-31
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Reading Level: 280
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Description: The increased need for improved social services has now gone beyond the lower class in the European Union. Research on recent changes and developments of demographics in these European countries has shown that Fordist organization of work, the lengthening of the average life span, and the increased instability of the family have all contributed to escalating social inequities. A large portion of Europe's population is now at social risk, exacerbated by both homelessness and intolerance; this in turn has prompted a re-evaluation of the state provisions of social care. State insurance programs have been found inadequate in addressing social needs effectively, while care services are preferred over cash benefits due to the instability of working careers for those in the middle class. Subsequently, in recent years the focus has increasingly been on social services and on the need for expansion and development of a public sector service system. This volume in the Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies series explores the impact of policy and legislative change on the organizational and institutional structure of social service systems. Its contributing authors provide a solid framework for researching and evaluating the effectiveness of social services and state policy.
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Price: $117.00
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Sale: $38.48
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Manufacturer: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.925
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Publication Date: 2005-05
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: * What should be privatized and what should be left in the public sector? Who decides and on what basis?
* Presents worldwide examples from all sectors to show what’s worked, what hasn’t, and why--what the limits to privatization are
* Major analysis of and challenge to the market shibboleth of our age: private sector good, public sector bad
* A Report to the Club of Rome--like the hugely influential Limits to Growth and Factor Four
Driven by ideology, the IMF, the World Bank, and powerful business interests, governments all over the world have been privatizing services in a growing number of sectors. Not just industrial utilities like energy, water, and transport, but health, education, media, communications, pensions, even prisons, and defense. But what have been the results? Have private funds and management produced greater efficiency, better economic performance and higher levels of service everywhere?
This book is the first thorough audit of privatizations around the world. It shows how and where they have worked well, and where they have defeated their own aims--with serious impacts on public health, environmental sustainability, democratic accountability, and the level of public service. It analyzes the factors behind success or failure to establish criteria for future sell-offs, and argues for the fundamental importance of democratic governance of the privatization of publicly owned goods. The result is a book of major importance, challenging one of the orthodoxies of our day--a benchmark for future debate.
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Price: $65.00
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Sale: $12.50
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Joel F. Handler
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 350.000973
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Publication Date: 1996-04-01
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Throughout the world, politicians are dismantling state enterprises and heaping praise on private markets, while in the United States a new rhetoric of "citizen empowerment" links a widespread distrust of government to decentralization and privatization. Here Joel Handler asks whether this restructuring of authority really allows ordinary citizens to take more control of the things that matter in their roles as parents and children, teachers and students, tenants and owners, producers and consumers. Looking at citizens as stakeholders in the modern social welfare state created by the New Deal, he traces the surprising ideological shifts of empowerment from its beginning as a cornerstone of the war on poverty in the 1960s to its central place in conservative market-based voucher schemes for school reform in the 1990s. Handler shows that in the past the gains from decentralization have proved to be more symbol than substance: some disadvantaged members of society will find new opportunities in the changes of the 1990s, but others will simply experience powerlessness under another name. He carefully distinguishes "empowerment by invitation" (in special education, worker safety, home health care, public housing tenancy, and neighborhood organizations) from the "empowerment by conflict" exemplified by the radical decentralization of the Chicago public schools. What emerges is a map of the major pitfalls and possible successes in the current journey away from a discredited regulatory state.
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Price: $89.95
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Sale: $57.72
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Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Daniel Diaz Fuentes
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.9405
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Publication Date: 2007-03-06
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Transnational corporations (TNCs) and public enterprises have been perceived as organisations evolving in separate, even antagonistic, business, economic and ideological spheres. Yet, at the beginning of the C21st, utilities in energy, telecommunications, transport and water unexpectedly emerged as leading TNCs. How and why did this remarkable and unprecedented transition occur? What are the consequences for competition, regulation, public services and consumers? Leading authorities from Europe, Russia, Canada, Mexico and the United States analyse the business, economic and historical contexts that have influenced these changes.
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Price: $75.00
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Sale: $14.75
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Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jacques V. Dinavo
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Publisher: Praeger Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.90091724
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Publication Date: 1995-03-30
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: This work concludes that privatization promotes economic development and democracy in developing countries. Several governments have opted for privatization to maximize consumer choice, to promote competition, and to improve the quality and efficiency of goods and services. Many governments in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are cautiously turning state-owned enterprises over to the private sector because of the benefits coming with a free market economy and free enterprise spirit. The case of Zaire shows the failure of state-owned enterprises to meet national economic, social, and political goals. The case of the Cameroon shows privatization at work in a developing country.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $35.82
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Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 371.195
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Publication Date: 2004-10
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: This book challenges readers to consider the consequences of commercialism and business influences on and in schools. Critical essays examine the central theme of commercialism via a unique multiplicity of real-world examples. Topics include:
*privatization of school food services;
*oil company ads that act as educational policy statements;
*a parent's view of his child's experiences in a school that encourages school-business partnerships;
*commercialization and school administration;
*teacher union involvement in the school-business partnership craze currently sweeping the nation;
*links between education policy and the military-industrial complex;
*commercialism in higher education, including marketing to high school students, intellectual property rights of professors and students, and the bind in which professional proprietary schools find themselves; and
*the influence of conservative think tanks on information citizens receive, especially concerning educational issues and policy.
Schools or Markets?: Commercialism, Privatization, and School-Business Partnerships is compelling reading for all researchers, faculty, students, and education professionals interested in the connections between public schools and private interests. The breadth and variety of topics addressed make it a uniquely relevant text for courses in social and cultural foundations of education, sociology of education, educational politics and policy, economics of education, philosophy of education, introduction to education, and cultural studies in education.
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Price: $189.00
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Sale: $185.00
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.793206
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Publication Date: 1993-02-28
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: This book brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, the utility industry, private and public organizations and regulatory agencies to address various challenges and opportunities related to product differentiation in the electric power industry. The book's objectives are to: - review the state of the art in implementing reliability differentiated electric services;
- address the entire process for developing and implementing reliability differentiated product menus including research, design, marketing, implementation and evaluation;
- consider technical, economics, and regulatory barriers to implementing reliability differentiated product design; and
- bring together a variety of theoretical and practical experience in electric power product differentiation.
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