Privatisation, public purpose and private service: the twentieth century culture of contracting out and the evolving law of diffused sovereignty

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Source: OECD Journal on Budgeting, Volume 2, Number 4, May 2003 , pp. 89-160(72)

Publisher: OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

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Abstract:

The 1992 book Reinventing Government, the template for the identically named Clinton-Gore initiative, identified 36 alternatives to "standard delivery service". Surprisingly, the authors wrote, the federal government already relies on many of these alternatives. Similarly, the basic tools identified by the Reagan Commission on Privatisation - vouchers, sale of government assets, and contracting - were not new...

Document Type: Review article

Publication date: 2003-05-01