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100 1 _aMARKUSEN, Ann R
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245 1 0 _aThe case against privatizing national security
260 _aOxford :
_bBlackwell,
_cOctober 2003
520 3 _aSince the mid-1990s, the U.S. Pentagon has accelerated efforts to outsource weapons, battlefield and base support operations, and troop training, invoking competition-based savings and better quality. I review the arguments for and against such privatization and summarize recent Pentagon outsourcing experience. I conclude that the current enthusiasm for privatization is driven largely by commercial concerns and lobbying rather than real gains to the nation and citizens, that it poses dangers of monopolization and undue political influence, and that current contracting practices lack verification and mandatory evaluation safeguards to deliver promised results
773 0 8 _tGovernance: an International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions
_g16, 4, p. 471-501
_dOxford : Blackwell, October 2003
_xISSN 0952-1895
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998 _a20051114
_b1215^b
_cTiago
998 _a20100414
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_cCarolina
999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
_bPHL2MARC21 1.1
_c14084
_d14084
041 _aeng