The Adam Smith Institute’s latest policy briefing, written by Maxwell Marlow and Sofia Risino, suggests various childcare reforms aimed at cutting costs, boosting quality and increasing parental choice.
This paper restates the case for privatization, evaluates the three proposals on the table and makes final proposals to form the basis of legislation. The book also updates material from the Right Lines whilst looking at the possible privatization of The London and Glasgow Underground systems, the Dockland Light Railway and the Tyne and Wear Metro system. Some wider aspects of a free market in transport are also addressed.
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In the Enterprise Imperative Peter Young talks of how to promote growth in developing countries via the use of privatization.
Micropolitics' analyzes the process of policy formulation which makes allies of the various interest groups affected by change. Dr Pirie sets out the thinking behind some of the policies which characterized the Thatcher revolution in Britain, and to some degree those of the Reagan revolution in the United States. It deals with techniques such as ‘micro-incrementalism’ – policies which gradually replace one state of affairs with another because many people feel more comfortable with gradual, creeping reform.
His view is that we should make advances where and when we can, if they all point in the same direction. Each new status quo achieved will serve as a springboard for the next advance. ‘Micropolitics’ tells how and why.
Part 1: The role of ideas
Part 2: The public sector
Part 3: Micropolitics
Part 4: Special techniques
Part 5: Summation
The ASI Ratings is the ASI parliamentary index between 1987-1988 compiled by Michael Simmonds, to examine the voting record of MPs.
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This album catalogues all media mentions of the Adam Smith Institute during the later stages of the 1980s.
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The Adam Smith Institute envisages a two-stage sale of British Rail: the track and terminals privatized as a complete unit, and then the individual services which run on the track..
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In his 1987 report 'A Divorce for Auntie', Nicholas O'Shaughnessy of Loughborough University presents objections to the "monolithic" ideological nature of the BBC. Today, the debate on the BBC's ideological leanings continues, with 41% of those polled in 2013 saying they believed it to display some bias. This considered, O'Shaughnessy's report remains important to this ongoing controversy.
