Public Services or Corporate Welfare : Rethinking the Nation State in the Global Economy

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: The Global Corporate Agenda -- The seven- issue corporate agenda -- The nation state -- 1 Public Goods, Public Risk and Power Struggles -- Global and national public goods -- Global risk or risky business -- Competition, power struggles and alliances -- Reconfiguring the state market civil society paradigm -- 2 Nation States: Facilitating and Accommodating Globalisation -- Globalisation, regionalisation and the nation state -- How the state facilitates globalisation -- Privately financed infrastructure and sustainable development: mortgaging the future -- States make markets -- Globalisation of Public Management -- 3 Modernising the State: A Third Way for Competition -- The roots of transformation and modernisation -- The objectives of transformation and modernisation -- Role of the state -- Financing the state -- 4 Modernising the State: New Organisation and New Management? -- Organisational structure of the state -- Managing the state -- 5 The Emerging Corporate-Welfare Complex -- Resilience to change -- New challenges for the welfare state -- The Third Way welfare state -- Pensions and social security the global market -- The new corporate- welfare complex -- 6 The Price of Neo-Liberal Modernisation -- Macroeconomic impact -- Asset stripping and high transaction costs -- Employment impact -- Democratic accountability and user/ employee involvement -- Fragmenting the state -- Equality and social justice -- Quality of service -- The performance state paradigm -- Ownership and control -- Partnerships -- The effect on state capacity -- 7 The Nation State in 2020 -- New world ( dis) order -- The corporate or minimalist state -- The enabling or partnership state -- The third sector or social economy state -- Other models.