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Privatization of public-sector services in theory and practice

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  • Janet Rothenberg Pack

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The last ten years have seen a marked increase in the analysis and implementation of private-sector alternatives to the production of public-sector services. The impetus for privatization has two sources: (1) opposition to further growth of the public sector, and (2) the belief that the private sector would be a more efficient producer. Yet as privatization moves beyond the acquisition of intermediate goods and services (payroll processing and housekeeping services, for example) to more complex public outputs (such as education, social security, public safety, the postal system, for example), it is subject to increasing challenge on both efficiency and equity grounds. Nonetheless, private alternatives to public production are finding increased acceptance.

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  • Janet Rothenberg Pack, 1987. "Privatization of public-sector services in theory and practice," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 6(4), pages 523-540.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jpamgt:v:6:y:1987:i:4:p:523-540
    DOI: 10.2307/3323506
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    1. Samuel Adams, 2011. "Privatization and National Development: A Case Study of Ghana," Public Organization Review, Springer, vol. 11(3), pages 237-253, September.
    2. Taggart, Gabel & Zenor, Jen, 2022. "Evaluation as a moral practice: The case of virtue ethics," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    3. Szromek, Adam R. & Romaniuk, Piotr & Hadzik, Andrzej, 2016. "The privatization of spa companies in Poland – An evaluation of policy assumptions and implementation," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 120(4), pages 362-368.
    4. Whitney Ruble, 2015. "The Effect of Contracting Out Low Performing Schools on Student Performance," Working Papers 1521, Tulane University, Department of Economics.

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