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By exploring in detail land reform movements in Britain and the United States, this book transcends traditional labor history and conceptions of class to deepen our understanding of the social, political, and economic history of both countries in the nineteenth century.

Although divided by their ...

By exploring in detail land reform movements in Britain and the United States, this book transcends traditional labor history and conceptions of class to deepen our understanding of the social, political, and economic history of both countries in the nineteenth century.

Although divided by their diverse experiences of industrialization, and living in countries with different amounts of available land, many working people in both Britain and the United States dreamed of free or inexpensive land to release them from the grim conditions of the 1840's: depressing, overcrowded cities, low wages or unemployment, and stifling lives. Focusing on the Chartist Land Company, the Potters' Joint-Stock Emigration Society, and the American National Reform movement, this study analyses the ideas that motivated workers to turn to land reform, the creation of working-class land reform cultures and identities among both men and women, and the international Communication that enabled the formation of a transatlantic movement.

Though there were similarities in the ideas behind the land reform movements, in their organizational strategies, and in their relationships with other reform movements in the two countries, the author's examination of their grassroots constituencies reveals key differences. In the United States, land reformers included small proprietors as well as artisans and factory workers. In Britain, by contrast, at least a quarter of Chartist Land Company participants lived in cotton-manufacturing towns, strongholds of unpropertied workers and radical activity.

When the land reform movements came into contact with the organs of the press and government, the differences in membershipbecame crucial. The Chartist Land Company was repressed by a government alarmed at the prospect of workers' autonomy, and the Potters' Joint-Stock Emigration Society died the natural death of straitened finances, but the American

This completely new edition of a best-selling text for practitioners and policy analysts alike tracks the increasingly important role of the states in U.S. health care policy reform and the experience that policy-innovating states have accumulated to date. The first part of the book deals with ...

This completely new edition of a best-selling text for practitioners and policy analysts alike tracks the increasingly important role of the states in U.S. health care policy reform and the experience that policy-innovating states have accumulated to date. The first part of the book deals with health issues common to all states. Chapter 1 shows how the states have, by default and design, become the "laboratories" of health care reform and reviews the challenges faced by the states in dealing with rising health care costs, declining insurance coverage of the population (about 35 million uninsured), and the transfer of programmatic responsibility in health policy from the federal to the state level. Chapters 2-5 deal with the states' policy competence and capacity and their role in managed care; health insurance market reform; and Medicaid. Chapters 6-10 examine the successes and failures of notable health policy reform efforts in Hawaii, Minnesota, Oregon, Vermont, and Kansas.

"Health care workers, policy-makers, social scientists, and the general public have much to gain by reading this book". -- Choice (on the first edition)

Governments everywhere have a newfound interest in privatizing healthcare services. This collection explores the deep-rooted tensions between publicly-funded health care systems and the dynamics of public markets to deliver privately-financed health care. It explains the attraction and limitations ...

Governments everywhere have a newfound interest in privatizing healthcare services. This collection explores the deep-rooted tensions between publicly-funded health care systems and the dynamics of public markets to deliver privately-financed health care. It explains the attraction and limitations of market-led health reform and the indispensable role of a vibrant public authority in the renewal of modern health care systems. International authorities in the field examine public-private conflicts in health policy including cost-containment and privatization strategies in an international perspective, and the role of business and the private sector in setting the agenda for health care reform. The contributors focus on the restructuring of Anglo-Saxon health systems and the shift in state-market boundaries in Canada, the US, Britain and Australia.

This book surveys the traditional roles of Latin American judicial & justice systems & the origins, objectives, & outcomes of contemporary efforts to reform them. It views justice reform as both a technical & political process, demonstrating how evolving understandings in both areas have engendered ...

This book surveys the traditional roles of Latin American judicial & justice systems & the origins, objectives, & outcomes of contemporary efforts to reform them. It views justice reform as both a technical & political process, demonstrating how evolving understandings in both areas have engendered conflicts over the limits & direction of future change. Drawing on a detailed examination of the Peruvian experience, short case studies on Colombia, Costa Rica, & El Salvador, & other regional examples, Linn Hammergren tracks the evolution of reform policy & politics from a purely sectoral issue to an emerging focus on their relationship to the political foundations, structure, & operations of the modern state.

This collection of essays by leading commentators on civil justice is an attempt to assess the present state of civil procedure in the UK and the possible impact of proposals recently put forward by Lord Woolf. In addition, the essays deal with the fundamental problems that are encountered today in ...

This collection of essays by leading commentators on civil justice is an attempt to assess the present state of civil procedure in the UK and the possible impact of proposals recently put forward by Lord Woolf. In addition, the essays deal with the fundamental problems that are encountered today in the administration of civil justice everywhere. The contributors are distinguished practitioners and academics who have made extensive contributions to the subject in the past.