The paper studies the shift in managing the state or public enterprises from a perspective of policy learning during the period 1982-1991 in Sweden. There was a significant reversal in the policy around state enterprises sector from 1982 towards a more market oriented business approach. The aim...

Nowhere are the failings of the neoliberal political and economic order more evident than in its signature project of privatisation. As privatisation and marketised solutions continue to fail, state intervention and public ownership are coming back, in diverse ways, to the management and...

The public value of history, culture and heritage interacts in complex ways with the private ownership of so many of the facilities which give substance to these matters. This article begins by reflecting on the processes involved in seeking to associate government, community and the market in...