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Index 278
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act (US, 1996) 46
Peterson, G. 72, 76
Peterson, P. 159
Poor Law (UK) 9
Portugal 135
post-secondary education:
and attrition 183, 271(n21);
background 176–7;
benefits to society 178–9, 269(n6);
and certification of universities 190–2;
and citizenship/civic virtue considerations 194;
competition in 195, 273(n82);
demand-side experiments 183–5;
demand-side subsidies 185–90;
designing new system 185–96;
ends of/rationales for government intervention 177–80, 269(n3);
and eqaulity of opportunity 180;
government’s post-design role 194–5;
and income-contingent loan program (IGLP) 186–8;
increased demand for 181;
and inflexibility 182–3, 270–1(n19);
internet-based 192, 272(n72);
and job security 195, 273(n83);
and liberal education 179, 269–70(n9);
and means testing 182, 189–90, 195, 270(n14), 273(n76);
modes of government intervention 180–5;
monitoring of 195, 273(n80);
paternalistic 179–80;
political economy 195–6;
positive externalities 178–9;
and private institutions 185, 271(n41);
problems in present system 180–5;
public/private boundary 176, 269(n1);
and qualified consumers 188–90;
and qualified suppliers 190–3;
and quality 182, 270(n18);
quality of 195, 273(n78);
and regressive subsidization 181–2, 270(n16);
and repayment obligation 193, 272(n73);
scope of voucher entitlement 193–4;
and tax revenues 182;
and university research 178, 179, 269(n4), 270(n10)
President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency (US) 86
Priemus, H. 77
Primary Care groups (PCGs) (UK) 112
primary/secondary education: and accountability 152–3;
background 145;
capacity 165;
charter schools 155–8, 167, 263–4(n51, n52, n53, n60), 267(n147);
citizenship model 145–6, 148, 152;
and collective bargaining 152, 262(n33);
and cream-skimming 169, 267(n156);