LEADER 04607nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910455492603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-75302-9 010 $a9786612753022 010 $a1-4008-2198-3 010 $a1-4008-1197-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821983 035 $a(CKB)111056486503606 035 $a(EBL)581602 035 $a(OCoLC)700688614 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000141099 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11151370 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141099 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10056887 035 $a(PQKB)10607134 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581602 035 $a(OCoLC)56032561 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35987 035 $a(DE-B1597)446140 035 $a(OCoLC)979757058 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821983 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581602 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035898 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275302 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486503606 100 $a19950809d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDown from bureaucracy$b[electronic resource] $ethe ambiguity of privatization and empowerment /$fJoel F. Handler 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1996 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 225 0 $aThe William G. Bowen Series ;$v24 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-04461-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-260) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tChapter 1. Introduction --$tPART I: The Organization of the Welfare State: Public and Private --$tChapter 2. The Context of Decentralization --$tChapter 3. The Uses of Decentralization --$tChapter 4. Privatization --$tPART II: The View from Below: Empowerment by Invitation, Empowerment through Conflict --$tChapter 5. Power and Empowerment --$tChapter 6. Empowerment by Invitation --$tChapter 7. Empowerment through Conflict: School Reform --$tChapter 8. Conclusion --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aThroughout 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. 606 $aDecentralization in government$zUnited States 606 $aCommunity power$zUnited States 606 $aPower (Social sciences)$zUnited States 606 $aPrivatization$zUnited States 606 $aDecentralization in government 606 $aWelfare state 606 $aSchools$xDecentralization$zIllinois$zChicago 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDecentralization in government 615 0$aCommunity power 615 0$aPower (Social sciences) 615 0$aPrivatization 615 0$aDecentralization in government. 615 0$aWelfare state. 615 0$aSchools$xDecentralization 676 $a350/.000973 700 $aHandler$b Joel F$0287878 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455492603321 996 $aDown from bureaucracy$92453352 997 $aUNINA