TY - JOUR
T1 - Welfare state politics in privatization of delivery
T2 - Linking program constituencies to left and right
AU - Zehavi, Amos
N1 - Funding Information:
I would like to thank David Art, Dan Breznitz, Dana Brown, Rachael Cobb, Joshua Cohen, David Levi-Faur, Dan Metz, Fiona Ross, and three anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. Shirah Bergman, Eyal Finkelstein, Ron Mandelbaum, and Dana Mills have provided invaluable research assistance for this project. Finally, I am grateful for the financial support of the Harold Hartog School of Government and Policy at Tel Aviv University.
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - This article asks whether alleged partisan policy convergence has eradicated differences in relation to privatization of delivery of welfare state services. The study utilizes a novel methodological approach-numerous intrastate comparisons set in a consilience research framework-to assess the extent of convergence and its underlying reasons. It explores the partisan politics of school privatization of delivery across five countries that differ in their position on the left-right continuum: England, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, and Sweden. Privatization of delivery in health care was selected as a secondary policy domain. Analysis of within-country variation in both domains indicates that there remain significant differences between left and right across all countries. The right tends to set the privatization agenda, and the left is more reluctant than the right to privatize delivery of services. This difference in approach is related to the disparate influence that public and private program constituencies have over left and right parties.
AB - This article asks whether alleged partisan policy convergence has eradicated differences in relation to privatization of delivery of welfare state services. The study utilizes a novel methodological approach-numerous intrastate comparisons set in a consilience research framework-to assess the extent of convergence and its underlying reasons. It explores the partisan politics of school privatization of delivery across five countries that differ in their position on the left-right continuum: England, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, and Sweden. Privatization of delivery in health care was selected as a secondary policy domain. Analysis of within-country variation in both domains indicates that there remain significant differences between left and right across all countries. The right tends to set the privatization agenda, and the left is more reluctant than the right to privatize delivery of services. This difference in approach is related to the disparate influence that public and private program constituencies have over left and right parties.
KW - education
KW - health care
KW - partisan convergence
KW - privatization
KW - welfare state
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84856483590&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0010414011421307
DO - 10.1177/0010414011421307
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AN - SCOPUS:84856483590
SN - 0010-4140
VL - 45
SP - 194
EP - 219
JO - Comparative Political Studies
JF - Comparative Political Studies
IS - 2
ER -