Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these phases of the state and its administration in order.
- A restructured state delivering the same tasks through agencies and contracts
- A welfare state delivering health, education and pensions
- A minimal state providing order, defence and justice
- An interventionist state regulating and insuring
Hints
- Start with the smallest list of tasks.
- Restructuring changed the delivery, not the list.
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- A minimal state providing order, defence and justice
- An interventionist state regulating and insuring
- A welfare state delivering health, education and pensions
- A restructured state delivering the same tasks through agencies and contracts
Why
The last step is the one to state precisely: restructuring changed how tasks were delivered, not which tasks the state had taken on. Spending stayed near its level; what changed was the organisational form, and the rest of this unit is largely about that change.
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