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The entrepreneurial state: service exports in healthcare and criminal justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2020

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Neil Lunt*
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Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York, Heslington, UK
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Abstract

This article analyses an overlooked element of public service marketisation, examining overseas export activity within healthcare and criminal justice. It explores the drivers, strategies, opportunities and risks of such activities, and the differences across policy sector. Focussing on contrasting experiences is an opportunity to understand the complex and differentiated operational and structural environments within which this form of “public entrepreneurialism” is expressed. There is a gap in our understanding of such developments and their promotion within the context of austerity. The paper discusses the implications of the entrepreneurial state for public sector reputation.

Keywords

public sector entrepreneurialismhealth exportcommercialisationpublic sector reputationhealthcare
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Research Article
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Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , February 2017 , pp. 18 - 35
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Copyright © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

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