Markets, Rights and Power in Australian Social Policy
Published on 30. April 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
366 pages
978-1-920899-95-0 (ISBN)
Description
The provision of social services in Australia has changed dramatically in recent decades, raising a range of important questions about financial and democratic accountability: 'who benefits', 'who suffers' and 'who decides'. This book explores these developments through rich case studies of a diverse set of social policy domains. The case studies demonstrate a range of effects of marketisation, including the impact on the experience of consumer engagement with social service systems, on the distribution of social advantage and disadvantage, and on the democratic steering of social policy.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Australia
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
A5: Tankobon
Illustrations
3 b&w ill., 28 tables
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
501 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-920899-95-0 (9781920899950)
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Persons
About the editors:
Gabrielle Meagher is a professor of social policy at Macquarie University.
Susan Goodwin is associate professor in policy studies at the University of Sydney.
Gabrielle Meagher is a professor of social policy at Macquarie University.
Susan Goodwin is associate professor in policy studies at the University of Sydney.
Content
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: capturing marketisation in Australian social policy by Gabrielle Meagher and Susan Goodwin
1. The politics of market encroachment: policymaker rationales and voter responses by Gabrielle Meagher and Shaun Wilson
2. The marketisation of human services and the expansion of the not-for-profit sector by Susan Goodwin and Ruth Phillips
3. The devil's in the detail: the hidden costs of private retirement incomes policy by Adam Stebbing
4. Social benefit bonds: financial markets inside the state by Angela Mitropoulos and Dick Bryan
5. 'Which bank?' Competition and community service obligations in the retail banking sector by Leanne Cutcher and Johann Loibl
6. Community aged care providers in a competitive environment: past, present and future by Bob Davidson
7. Home security: marketisation and the changing face of housing assistance in Australia by Lucy Groenhart and Nicole Gurran
8. Money and markets in Australia's healthcare system by Fran Collyer, Kirsten Harley and Stephanie Short
9. Marketisation of immigrant skills assessment in Australia by Anna Boucher
10. Markets in education: 'school of choice' and family capital by Helen Proctor and Claire Aitchison
11. Conditional income transfers and choice in social services: just more conditions and more markets? by Terry Carney
About the contributors
Index
Foreword
Introduction: capturing marketisation in Australian social policy by Gabrielle Meagher and Susan Goodwin
1. The politics of market encroachment: policymaker rationales and voter responses by Gabrielle Meagher and Shaun Wilson
2. The marketisation of human services and the expansion of the not-for-profit sector by Susan Goodwin and Ruth Phillips
3. The devil's in the detail: the hidden costs of private retirement incomes policy by Adam Stebbing
4. Social benefit bonds: financial markets inside the state by Angela Mitropoulos and Dick Bryan
5. 'Which bank?' Competition and community service obligations in the retail banking sector by Leanne Cutcher and Johann Loibl
6. Community aged care providers in a competitive environment: past, present and future by Bob Davidson
7. Home security: marketisation and the changing face of housing assistance in Australia by Lucy Groenhart and Nicole Gurran
8. Money and markets in Australia's healthcare system by Fran Collyer, Kirsten Harley and Stephanie Short
9. Marketisation of immigrant skills assessment in Australia by Anna Boucher
10. Markets in education: 'school of choice' and family capital by Helen Proctor and Claire Aitchison
11. Conditional income transfers and choice in social services: just more conditions and more markets? by Terry Carney
About the contributors
Index