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The Welfare State-Public Sector Efficiency and Neo-Conservative Critique

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  • Casten von Otter

    (The Swedish Center for Working Life)

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Starting with a description of the conflicting paradigms of the 'welfaremodel' and the neo-conservative 'market-model' the problems of efficiency in the public sector are analyzed. The neo-conservative critique, it is argued, has drawn attention to several important problems and short-comings in public sector management. But the critique is blinded by an idealized picture of a free market system and does not realize the advantages of the public sector as a production system. The essential problems of public sector efficiency, and ways of dealing with these problems, are discussed in terms of measurements, management and mobilization.

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  • Casten von Otter, 1984. "The Welfare State-Public Sector Efficiency and Neo-Conservative Critique," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 5(2), pages 249-260, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:5:y:1984:i:2:p:249-260
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X8452006
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