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Limiting resources : market-led reform and the transformation of public goods
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"Using empirical evidence from Costa Rica and El Salvador, outlines alternative principles underlying water and electricity provision, including social rights, accountability, and environmental sus...
"Using empirical evidence from Costa Rica and El Salvador, outlines alternative principles underlying water and electricity provision, including social rights, accountability, and environmental sustainability. Argues that an excessive market orientation marginalized these principles while weakening state structures and accountability mechanisms and benefiting a small group of elites"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- LaDawn Haglund
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- Language
- English
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- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 238 pages) : illustrations
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- ISBNs
- 0271050500, 0271037199, 9780271053547, 9780271037189, 0271053542, 9780271050508, 9780271051093, 0271055235, 0271037180, 9780271055237, 9780271037196, 0271051094
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- on1266227823, ocn569481090, ocn779850777
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index.
- Introduction : public utility reform : problems and perspectives -- Theorizing public goods : the role of organizing principles -- "For the people" : constructing the "public" of public goods -- "Over our dead bodies" : the emergence of privatization policies -- The institutionalization of market-led public goods provision -- Power, resistance, and neoliberalism as instituted process -- Conclusion : market transformation of public goods