Democracy And Regulation
Subtitle: How the Public can Govern Essential Services
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: December 20, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780745319438
Subjects: Privatization; Public finance; Service industries; State supervision; Politics - Current Events; Development - Economic Development; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Rates; Politics/International Relations; USA; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Science / Environmental Science; Deregulation; United States; Public Affairs & Administration; Public utilities
First sentence: British residents pay 44 per cent more for electricity than do American consumers, 85 per cent more for local telephone service and 26 per cent more for natural gas - and by European standards, British prices are low.