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基本説明
This book, based on work commissioned by the ILO for the United Nations, is the first step-by-step guide to the way that public services are regulated in the United States.
Full Description
Essential services are being privatised the world over. Whether it's water, gas, electricity or the phone network, everywhere from Sao Paulo in Brazil to Leeds in the UK is following the US economic model and handing public services over to private companies whose principal interest is raising prices. Yet it's one of the world's best kept secrets that Americans pay astonishingly little for high quality public services.
This book, based on work for the United Nations International Labour Organisation is the first step-by-step guide to the way that public services are regulated in the United States. It explains how decisions are made by public debate in a public forum. Profits and investments of private companies are capped, and companies are forced to reduce prices for the poor, fund environmental investments and open themselves to financial inspection.
In a world where privatisation has so often led to economic disaster, this book is essential reading.
Contents
Democracy and Regulation: Introduction
1. Secrecy, Democracy And Regulation
2. Regulating In Public
3. Competition As Substitute For Regulation? Britain To California
4. Re-Regulation Is Not Deregulation
5. The Open Regulatory Process
6. Social Pricing
7. Issues That Are Publicly Decided
8. An Alternative: Democratic Negotiations
9. Be There: A Guide To Public Participation
10. A History Of Democratic Utility Regulation In The US
11. Regulating The Multinational Utility
12. Failed Experiments In The UK And The US
13. The Biggest Failures: California And Enron
14. International Democracy - Developing And Developed Countries
15. Conclusion
Notes
Index
