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1 online resource (xviii, 238 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index. |
Summary |
"Using empirical evidence from Costa Rica and El Salvador, outlines alternative principles underlying water and electricity provision, including social rights, accountability, and environmental sustainability. Argues that an excessive market orientation marginalized these principles while weakening state structures and accountability mechanisms and benefiting a small group of elites"--Provided by publisher. |
Contents |
Introduction : public utility reform : problems and perspectives -- Theorizing public goods : the role of organizing principles -- "For the people" : constructing the "public" of public goods -- "Over our dead bodies" : the emergence of privatization policies -- The institutionalization of market-led public goods provision -- Power, resistance, and neoliberalism as instituted process -- Conclusion : market transformation of public goods. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Water resources development -- Costa Rica.
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Water resources development. |
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Costa Rica. |
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Water resources development -- El Salvador.
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El Salvador. |
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Electric power -- Costa Rica.
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Electric power. |
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Electric power -- El Salvador.
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Public goods.
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Public goods. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Haglund, LaDawn, 1968- Limiting resources. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010 9780271037189 (DLC) 2010007381 (OCoLC)569481090 |
ISBN |
9780271051093 (electronic book) |
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0271051094 (electronic book) |
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9780271055237 (electronic book) |
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0271055235 (electronic book) |
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9780271037189 |
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0271037180 |
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9780271037196 |
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0271037199 |
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9780271050508 |
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