Limiting resources : market-led reform and the transformation of public goods / LaDawn Haglund
- Author
- Haglund, LaDawn, 1968-
- Published
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2010]
- Copyright Date
- ©2010
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 238 pages) : illustrations
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- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- 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.
- Summary
- "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
- Subject(s)
- Water resources development—Costa Rica
- Water resources development—El Salvador
- Electric power—Costa Rica
- Electric power—El Salvador
- Public goods
- Ressources en eau—Exploitation—Costa Rica
- Électricité—Costa Rica
- Électricité—Salvador
- Biens collectifs
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING—Power Resources—Electrical
- POLITICAL SCIENCE—Public Policy—Economic Policy
- Electric power
- Water resources development
- Costa Rica
- El Salvador
- ISBN
- 9780271051093 (electronic bk.)
0271051094 (electronic bk.)
9780271055237 (electronic bk.)
0271055235 (electronic bk.)
9780271053547
0271053542
9780271037189
0271037180
9780271037196
0271037199
9780271050508 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index.
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