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Hans Knutsson
Senior lecturer
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Welfare choices : a story of market forces and social progress
Author
Editor
- Irvine Lapsley
- Hans Knutsson
Summary, in English
The implementation of market solutions has been widely attempted in many different parts of the public sector. This chapter concerns a groundbreaking social reform, which introduced personal assistants for ‘functionally impaired’ people. It was a far-reaching and liberating reform aimed at making disabled people part of society. It replaced collective institutional care with individual choice, in turn built on a number of market-oriented mechanisms. The reform, though, soon grew costly and has been plagued by fraud and public mistrust. The chapter discusses how ideas of market mechanisms are not equal to ready-made solutions; they may come ill-conceived and before long be in need of revision and negotiation. The chapter provides a case of a major Swedish social reform, which illuminates, first, an experimental full-scale policy implementation and, second, how market ideas easily become confused with and substituted for the idea of individual choice.
Department/s
- Department of Business Administration
Publishing year
2017
Language
English
Pages
224-238
Publication/Series
Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Routledge
Topic
- Public Administration Studies
- Economics
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 9781315560328
- ISBN: 9781138675940