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Index 270
and case for private provision 16–17;
and civil servants 22;
clarity in 26;
and consumer-as-principal/government-as-agent 22;
and contracting-out 23–6;
and demand-side subsidies 26–9, 40;
and democratic accountability 19–21;
flexibility in 27–8;
and fund allocation by different jurisdictions 238(n28);
incentive deficits 22–3;
incomplete 19;
and information 28;
and innovation 25;
and interests of consumers 24–5;
and market discipline 24;
and monopolies 26, 28;
moral hazards 28–9;
and ownership effect 24, 28;
price/quality dichotomy 25;
and principal-agent problems 19, 23, 25, 28;
and residual interest 22, 28;
and supply-side subsidies 25–6;
and uncontracted-for circumstances 22–3, 28;
within the market 27
Cooper, J. 87
Dearing Report (UK, 1997) 184–5
demand-side subsidies 13–16, 40, 225–6, 232;
advantages of 71–2;
and child care 135, 136–7, 140;
constraining factors 72–3;
and food stamp program 52–4;
and health care 117–18;
housing 71–4;
and information asymmetry 91–2;
and labour market training 211–13;
and legal aid 90–5;
and post-secondary education 185–90;
primary/secondary education 153–64, 164–6;
supplier-induced 90–1
Demsetz, H. 27
Denmark:
child care in 135;
labour market policies 214–15
Directly Managed Units (DMUs) (UK) 110, 251(n44)
District Health Authorities (DHAs) (UK) 108, 109–10, 114
Dockery, A.M. and Stromback, T. 216
Dohmen, D. 185
Early Childhood Development Initiatives (US) 257(n39)
early childhood education, arguments against 143–4;