Can market forces stimulate social change?: A case example using the national disability insurance scheme in Australia
Kristy Muir & Fanny Salignac
What the paper says
Market mechanisms are increasingly playing a role in the social services system worldwide. This has been evident in the health, aged-care and childcare sectors in countries such as the United Sates and the United Kingdom, and is emerging as a fundamental change in the disability sector with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Australia. But can market forces facilitate positive social outcomes for recipients of disability services? This paper explores the possibility of market forces in creating positive social outcomes in the context of the NDIS in Australia. It does so by examining the roles and underlying philosophies of the public, not-for-profit and for-profit sectors in addressing social issues, and by drawing lessons from market forces examples in health, aged-care and childcare around the world. Finally, it hypothesises the extent to which the NDIS could create social change within a free market framework.
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Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.58 × 0.4 = 0.23 |
| M · momentum | 0.80 × 0.15 = 0.12 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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