IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/envirc/v9y1991i2p155-171.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Privatizing Government Service Delivery: Theory, Evidence, and Implications

Author

Listed:
  • K P Voytek

    (Center for Local Economic Competitiveness, Michigan Department of Commerce, PO Box 30225, Lansing, MI 48909, USA)

Abstract

The growing dissatisfaction in many countries with the performance of the public sector in delivering goods and services has focused attention on ways to improve the quality of service delivery by the public sector. ‘Privatization’ is viewed as one way to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of delivering a variety of public goods and services. In this paper the theoretical rationale, empirical evidence, and implications of utilizing the private sector to deliver government services are examined. In addition, the ‘tools-of-government-action’ idea and the challenges it poses for public management and privatization proponents are looked at. The paper is concluded by the suggestion that a serious rethinking of conventional wisdom surrounding public management be undertaken and by a review of the issues raised by these alternative arrangements in terms of the standards of efficiency, equity, accountability, and authority.

Suggested Citation

  • K P Voytek, 1991. "Privatizing Government Service Delivery: Theory, Evidence, and Implications," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 9(2), pages 155-171, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:9:y:1991:i:2:p:155-171
    DOI: 10.1068/c090155
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/c090155
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1068/c090155?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:9:y:1991:i:2:p:155-171. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.