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vouchers:
adoption of 1;
advantages/challenges 29, 40, 221–2;
benefits of 118;
broadening catchment area of 36;
case for 2, 13–40;
and case for redistribution/form of 224–5;
cash-equivalency of 38;
and child care 135, 140–2, 257–8(n47);
and cream-skimming 34, 141–2, 164–5, 229–30;
definition of 1, 13–16;
design challenges 31–6;
and distributive justice 165;
and efficiency 231–2;
and equity 232;
experience goods/credence goods 35, 239(n59);
and extra billing/topping-up 34, 126, 228–9;
in health care 116–26;
in healthcare 6–7;
and housing policy 5, 75–7;
ideas concerning 222–3;
and information failures 35;
interest groups 38, 223–4, 240(n70);
and labour market training 210–19;
major implications of usin 231–3;
means tested 32–3, 136;
and mode of remuneration 118–22;
model for 15;
and political feasiblity 232;
and politically binding decisions 39, 240(n71);
politics of 3–7, 230–1;
and post-secondary education 4–5, 185–96;
primary/secondary education 3–4, 158–64;
promise of 7–8;
prospects for 1;
and qualified consumers 225–6, 232;
and qualified suppliers 33, 226–7, 232;
refugee 5–6;
and scope of entitlements 122–5, 140–2, 168–71, 193–4, 215–17, 227–8;
skepticism concerning 2–3;
supply-side market responses/monopolies 35–6;
as tied demand-side subsidy 13–16, 40;
universality of 32–3, 165–6;
using 1–2;
value of 33, 55–6, 98–9, 117–18
Weesep, J.van and Kempen, R.van 60
welfare state:
and building social solidarity 10;
goals of 8–12;
Index 282