The need for a privatization process : lessons from development and implementation
By: WALLIN, Bruce A
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ArticlePublisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, jan./feb.1997Public administration review: PAR 57, 1, p. 11-20Abstract: The decision to privatize state services is often a controversial one. What are the pitfalls commonly encountered, and how can a state avoid them? In Massachusetts, a healthy clash of interests between a republican governor eager to privatize and democratic legislature responsive to state employees provides important lessons. Bruce Wallin finds that many mistakes, of noth a political and policy nature, were made by an administrative crusade. The legislative response, a bill regulating privatization, suggests that it is best to establish a decision-making process for privatization that is well specified, inclusive, and ideally has some independent check on the decisions.
The decision to privatize state services is often a controversial one. What are the pitfalls commonly encountered, and how can a state avoid them? In Massachusetts, a healthy clash of interests between a republican governor eager to privatize and democratic legislature responsive to state employees provides important lessons. Bruce Wallin finds that many mistakes, of noth a political and policy nature, were made by an administrative crusade. The legislative response, a bill regulating privatization, suggests that it is best to establish a decision-making process for privatization that is well specified, inclusive, and ideally has some independent check on the decisions.
Public administration review PAR
Jan./Feb.1997 Volume 57 Number 1
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