caa a22 4500 477046908 CHVBK 20180405111332.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00412473 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00412473 Attitudes to privatization of UK public utilities: Anticipating industrial practice and environmental effects [Elektronische Daten] [J. Eiser, Steven Reicher, Tessa Podpadec] Einstellungen gegenüber der Privatisierung von öffentlichen Strom- und Wasserlieferanten: erwartetes unternehmerisches Verhalten und erwartete Umweltwirkungen Attitudes toward the impending privatization of the UK electricity supply and water industries were assessed by means of a questionnaire distributed to 225 visitors to holiday beaches in SW England as part of a broader survey of perceptions of coastal pollution. The water industry was evaluated more negatively than the electricity industry in terms of both its present performance and the changes in its practice anticipated after privatization. The levels of pollutants in the immediate environment were expected to increase, with those individuals most opposed to privatization being especially pessimistic. The results suggest that respondents did not consider privatization to be a corrective for poor previous industrial practice, but rather that it would lead to improvement where an industry was seen as performing well, and deterioration where it was seen as performing badly. At worst, this was seen as likely to involve the privatized industries putting their own financial interests ahead of those of the public and the environment. It is argued that individuals based their attitudes on previous experience and on assumptions about the effects of market forces on behaviour that differed from those implicit in the policy of privatization. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 Eiser J. aut Reicher Steven aut Podpadec Tessa aut Journal of Consumer Policy Kluwer Academic Publishers 19/2(1996-06-01), 193-208 0168-7034 19:2<193 1996 19 10603 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00412473 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00412473 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Eiser J. aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Reicher Steven aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Podpadec Tessa aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Consumer Policy Kluwer Academic Publishers 19/2(1996-06-01), 193-208 0168-7034 19:2<193 1996 19 10603 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer