04607nam 2200817 a 450 991045549260332120200520144314.01-282-75302-997866127530221-4008-2198-31-4008-1197-X10.1515/9781400821983(CKB)111056486503606(EBL)581602(OCoLC)700688614(SSID)ssj0000141099(PQKBManifestationID)11151370(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141099(PQKBWorkID)10056887(PQKB)10607134(MiAaPQ)EBC581602(OCoLC)56032561(MdBmJHUP)muse35987(DE-B1597)446140(OCoLC)979757058(DE-B1597)9781400821983(Au-PeEL)EBL581602(CaPaEBR)ebr10035898(CaONFJC)MIL275302(EXLCZ)9911105648650360619950809d1996 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDown from bureaucracy[electronic resource] the ambiguity of privatization and empowerment /Joel F. HandlerCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc19961 online resource (280 p.)The William G. Bowen Series ;24Description based upon print version of record.0-691-04461-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-260) and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --Chapter 1. Introduction --PART I: The Organization of the Welfare State: Public and Private --Chapter 2. The Context of Decentralization --Chapter 3. The Uses of Decentralization --Chapter 4. Privatization --PART II: The View from Below: Empowerment by Invitation, Empowerment through Conflict --Chapter 5. Power and Empowerment --Chapter 6. Empowerment by Invitation --Chapter 7. Empowerment through Conflict: School Reform --Chapter 8. Conclusion --References --IndexThroughout the world, politicians are dismantling state enterprises and heaping praise on private markets, while in the United States a new rhetoric of "citizen empowerment" links a widespread distrust of government to decentralization and privatization. Here Joel Handler asks whether this restructuring of authority really allows ordinary citizens to take more control of the things that matter in their roles as parents and children, teachers and students, tenants and owners, producers and consumers. Looking at citizens as stakeholders in the modern social welfare state created by the New Deal, he traces the surprising ideological shifts of empowerment from its beginning as a cornerstone of the war on poverty in the 1960's to its central place in conservative market-based voucher schemes for school reform in the 1990's.Handler shows that in the past the gains from decentralization have proved to be more symbol than substance: some disadvantaged members of society will find new opportunities in the changes of the 1990's, but others will simply experience powerlessness under another name. He carefully distinguishes "empowerment by invitation" (in special education, worker safety, home health care, public housing tenancy, and neighborhood organizations) from the "empowerment by conflict" exemplified by the radical decentralization of the Chicago public schools. What emerges is a map of the major pitfalls and possible successes in the current journey away from a discredited regulatory state.Decentralization in governmentUnited StatesCommunity powerUnited StatesPower (Social sciences)United StatesPrivatizationUnited StatesDecentralization in governmentWelfare stateSchoolsDecentralizationIllinoisChicagoUnited StatesPolitics and government20th centuryElectronic books.Decentralization in governmentCommunity powerPower (Social sciences)PrivatizationDecentralization in government.Welfare state.SchoolsDecentralization350/.000973Handler Joel F287878MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455492603321Down from bureaucracy2453352UNINA