How did Britain come to this? a century of systemic failures of governance
If every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets, what is wrong with the design of the systems that govern Britain? And how have they resulted in failures in housing, privatisation, outsourcing, education and healthcare? In How Did Britain Come to This? Gwyn Bevan examines a century...
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LSE Press
2023.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009781202506719 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Why governance matters - analysing systemic failures in the NHS
- 2. Economic and geographical fault lines
- 3. The interwar period and the Attlee settlement
- 4. The Attlee settlement's failures: stagflation, slums in the sky and educational geography
- 5. Neoliberalism and the new Thatcher settlement
- 6. The 'make or buy' decision: the UK's 'parastate' after privatisation and outsourcing
- 7. Marketisation in education
- 8. Healthcare: to marketise or not to marketise?
- 9. Playing the opening and middle games against Covid-19
- 10. Afterword: re-engaging with public governance.
