ZIFCAK, Spencer <br/><br/>
Contractualims, democracy and ethics 

 - Oxford :  Blackwell Publishers Limited,  June 2001 
<br/><br/> Contractualism, as concept and practice, may be defined in diffrent ways(Yeatman 1995,1998). In this article I am concerned with contracting out or outsourcing as it is other wise known. That is, I focus upon the process wheerby functions undertaken formerly by government are now performed ty private or voluntary organisations in a contractual realationship with public service deparments and agencies. Whereas deparments and agencies once provide a full panoply of services directly, government purchasers now select providers by tedering competitively for an expanding range of employment, education, health, social welfare and local government services. Contractualism, then, involves the recon-figuration of public service provision to favour quasi-commercial rather than bureaucratic forms