ISBN 0-7453-0856-2
Pluto Press, London, 2001
314 pages.
Contents
Introduction: The Global Corporate Agenda 1
The seven-issue corporate agenda 3
The nation state 15
1 Public Goods, Public Risk and Power Struggles 19
Global and national public goods 19
Global risk or risky business 22
Competition, power struggles and alliances 26
Reconfiguring the state–market–civil society paradigm 33
2 Nation States: Facilitating and Accommodating Globalisation 37
Globalisation, regionalisation and the nation state 37
How the state facilitates globalisation 46
Privately financed infrastructure and sustainable development: mortgaging the future 53
States make markets 60
Globalisation of Public Management 62
3 Modernising the State: A Third Way for Competition 63
The roots of transformation and modernisation 63
The objectives of transformation and modernisation 66
Role of the state 71
Financing the state 85
4 Modernising the State: New Organisation and NewManagement 101
Organisational structure of the state 101
Managing the state 114
5 The Emerging Corporate-Welfare Complex 130
Resilience to change 130
New challenges for the welfare state 133
The Third Way welfare state 141
Pensions and social security – the global market 147
The new corporate-welfare complex 155
6 The Price of Neo-Liberal Modernisation 165
Macroeconomic impact 165
Asset stripping and high transaction costs 167
Employment impact 174
Democratic accountability and user/employee involvement 178
Fragmenting the state 180
Equality and social justice 182
Quality of service 183
The performance state paradigm 185
Ownership and control 189
Partnerships 191
The effect on state capacity 197
7 The Nation State in 2020 204
New world (dis)order 205
The corporate or minimalist state 210
The enabling or partnership state 212
The third sector or social economy state 215
Other models 219
8 Redesigning the State – A New Public Order 221
The state in capitalist society 221
The core functions of the state 224
Extending democratic accountability and new models of governance 229
Taxation of income, consumption and corporate profits 231
Reversing marketisation and privatisation 233
New financial and regulatory architecture to control capital 240
Promoting civil society, citizenship and the social economy 247
Maintaining universal welfare systems 248
Reducing poverty through empowerment, redistribution, equalities, regeneration and control of development 249
Creating jobs and quality employment 250
Imposing corporate governance and social accountability 250
Maintaining macroeconomic stability and investment 252
9 A New Public Service Management 253
Principles of public service 253
A blueprint for a new Public Service Management 258
Corporate policies, values and public service ethos 259
Democratic accountability and communications 261
Social Justice Planning and Auditing 262
Innovation, redesign and capacity building 269
User and employee/trade union involvement 270
Strategic researching and planning social and economic needs 275
Quality systems and performance review 277
Monitoring, evaluation and learning environment 278
Public sector networks, partnerships and strategic sourcing 279
Quality employment & training 282
10 New Strategies and Alliances 284
Bibliography 287
Index 306
