Reconstituting the Public-Private Divide under Global Conditions: the Case of Dutch and British Water Management

Abstract: How is the line to be drawn in the public–private divide when those who would bridge it also assert that globalization restricts the state's ability to deliver public policy objectives? Critics of modernity have seen the distinction between two public–private discourses, state and market, the open and the hidden, as a modern flawed version of classic notions of the democratic citizen community. The projection of the divide on to a global stage appears to take us even further from that ideal. We report the results of a narrative analysis of the way practitioners in the Netherlands and England and Wales now deliver global public goods in the management of water as compared with their predecessors delivering public health and progress in the 19th century. In their adherence to the water systems concept we find them actively supporting a transparent public sphere beyond the state where multiple forms of agency assert global responsibilities

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Global Social Policy ; 5 (2005) 2 ; 227-248

Klassifikation
Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umwelt

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2005
Urheber
Dicke, Willemijn
Albrow, Martin

DOI
10.1177/1468018105053680
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-229556
Rechteinformation
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte

  • Dicke, Willemijn
  • Albrow, Martin

Entstanden

  • 2005

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