Rethinking the Welfare State: Government by Voucher

Rethinking the Welfare State offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of social welfare policy in an international context, with a particular emphasis on the US and Canada.The authors investigate the claim that a decentralized delivery of government supported goods and services enables policy objectives to be achieved in a more innovative and efficient way, but at a lower cost. Secondly they examine the effectiveness of the voucher system as a solution to problematic welfare concerns. While this system has shown much promise in improving welfare, there have been problems for institutions unable to attract enough voucher-assisted consumers to ensure their survival.In this context, the authors examine major social programmes such as food stamps, primary and secondary education, post-secondary education, labour market training, childcare, healthcare, legal aid, low-income housing, long-term care and pensions.

Business & Money

Trebilcock, Michael J.

Daniels, Ronald J.

Economics

Routledge

Rethinking the Welfare State offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of social welfare policy in an international context, with a particular emphasis on the US and Canada. The authors investigate the claim that a decentralized delivery of government supported goods and services enables policy objectives to be achieved in a more innovative and efficient way, but at a lower cost. Secondly they examine the effectiveness of the voucher system as a solution to problematic welfare concerns. While this system has shown much promise in improving welfare, there have been problems for institutions unable to attract enough voucher-assisted consumers to ensure their survival. In this context, the authors examine major social programmes such as food stamps, primary and secondary education, post-secondary education, labour market training, childcare, healthcare, legal aid, low-income housing, long-term care and pensions.

Contents The Future of Ontario Hydro: A Review of Structural and Regulatory Options -- Ronald Daniels and Michael Trebilcock - Regulation of Transmission and Distribution Activities of Ontario Hydro -- Laurence Booth and Paul Halpern - The Regulation of Trade in Electricity: A Canadian Perspective -- Robert Howse and Gerald Heckman - Hydro Restructuring and the Regulation of Conventional Pollutants -- Donald N. Dewees - Re-aligning Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations: Can Hydro Become a Mutual Gains Enterprise? -- Peter Warrian - Comparative Cost of Financing Ontario Hydro as a Crown Corporation and a Private Corporation -- Myron J. Gordon - Nuclear Environmental Consequences -- Donald N. Dewees - The Distribution of Electricity in Ontario: Restructuring Issues, Costs, and Regulation -- Adonis Yatchew - In Search of the Cat's Pyjamas: Regulatory Institutions and the Restructured Industry -- H.N. Janisch - Labour Adjustment at Hydro: Costs, Outcomes, and Alternative Strategies -- Peter Warrian. With the structural changes that are taking place in the electrical power industry Ontario Hydro at the Millennium is an important and timely investigation of Ontario Hydro as it charts a course for the twenty-first century.

Ontario Hydro at the Millennium: Has Monopoly's Moment Passed?

McGill-Queen's University Press

History

Universities have historically been integral to democracy. What can they do to reclaim this critical role? Universities play an indispensable role within modern democracies. But this role is often overlooked or too narrowly conceived, even by universities themselves. In What Universities Owe Democracy, Ronald J. Daniels, the president of Johns Hopkins University, argues that--at a moment when liberal democracy is endangered and more countries are heading toward autocracy than at any time in generations--it is critical for today's colleges and universities to reestablish their place in democracy. Drawing upon fields as varied as political science, economics, history, and sociology, Daniels identifies four distinct functions of American higher education that are key to liberal democracy: social mobility, citizenship education, the stewardship of facts, and the cultivation of pluralistic, diverse communities. By examining these roles over time, Daniels explains where colleges and universities have faltered in their execution of these functions--and what they can do going forward. Looking back on his decades of experience leading universities, Daniels offers bold prescriptions for how universities can act now to strengthen democracy. For those committed to democracy's future prospects, this book is a vital resource.

What Universities Owe Democracy

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Johns Hopkins University Press

Rule of Law Reform and Development: Charting the Fragile Path of Progress

This important book addresses a number of key issues regarding the relationship between the rule of law and development. It presents a deep and insightful inquiry into the current orthodoxy that the rule of law is the panacea for the world’s problems. The authors chart the precarious progress of law reforms both in overall terms and in specific policy areas such as the judiciary, the police, tax administration and access to justice, among others. They accept that the rule of law is necessarily tied to the success of development, although they propose a set of procedural values to enlighten this institutional approach. The authors also recognize that states face difficulties in implementing this institutional structures and identify the probable impediments, before proposing a rethink of law reform strategies and offering some conclusions about the role of the international community in the rule of law reform.Reviewing the progress in the rule of law reform in developing countries, specifically four regions – Latin America, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and Asia – this book makes a significant contribution to the literature. It will be of great interest to scholars and advanced students, as well as practitioners in the field, including international and bilateral aid agencies working on rule of law reform projects, and international and regional non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that focus on rule of law reform as a major aspect of their mandate.

Edward Elgar Publishing

`Within the law and development literature it is the most knowledgeable and comprehensive book on legal reform. I think that it will find a grateful readership among people working in development agencies, in humanitarian organizations and among scholars and students of development studies.' - Hans-Bernd Schäfer, University of Hamburg, Germany
`By identifying the key politico-economic reasons why rule-of-law reforms in developing countries have faltered and drawing out the implications for future strategy, this book is of immense importance and should be widely read.' - Anthony Ogus, CBE, FBA, University of Manchester, UK 
This important book addresses a number of key issues regarding the relationship between the rule of law and development. It presents a deep and insightful inquiry into the current orthodoxy that the rule of law is the panacea for the world's problems. The authors chart the precarious progress of law reforms both in overall terms and in specific policy areas such as the judiciary, the police, tax administration and access to justice, among others. They accept that the rule of law is necessarily tied to the success of development, although they propose a set of procedural values to enlighten this institutional approach. The authors also recognize that states face difficulties in implementing this institutional structures and identify the probable impediments, before proposing a rethink of law reform strategies and offering some conclusions about the role of the international community in the rule of law reform.
Reviewing the progress in the rule of law reform in developing countries, specifically four regions - Latin America, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and Asia - this book makes a significant contribution to the literature. It will be of great interest to scholars and advanced students, as well as practitioners in the field, including international and bilateral aid agencies working on rule of law reform projects, and international and regional non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that focus on rule of law reform as a major aspect of their mandate.
Contents: 1. The Relationship of the Rule of Law to Development; 2. The Judiciary; 3. Police; 4. Prosecution; 5. Correctional Institutions; 6. Tax Administration; 7. Access to Justice; 8. Legal Education; 9. Professional Regulation; 10. Rethinking Rule of Law Reform Strategies; Index

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Rethinking the Welfare State: Government by Voucher

Rethinking the Welfare State: Government by Voucher

Ontario Hydro at the Millennium: Has Monopoly's Moment Passed?

Ontario Hydro at the Millennium: Has Monopoly's Moment Passed?

Rethinking the Welfare State: Government by Voucher

What Universities Owe Democracy

Rule of Law Reform and Development: Charting the Fragile Path of Progress

Rule of Law Reform and Development: Charting the Fragile Path of Progress