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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827687103321

Titolo

Market-based governance : supply side, demand side, upside, and downside / / John D. Donahue, Joseph S. Nye Jr., editors ; Visions of Governance in the 21st Century

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. ; ; Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8157-9892-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DonahueJohn D

NyeJoseph S

Disciplina

352.3/4

Soggetti

Government business enterprises

Privatization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Market-based governance and the architecture of accountability / John D. Donahue -- Government contracting for health care / Karen Eggleston and Richard Zeckhauser -- Service contracting with nonprofit and for-profit providers : on preserving a mixed organizational ecology / Peter Frumkin -- Strategic contracting management / Steven Kelman -- Market and state provision in old-age income security : an international perspective / Georges de Menil -- Bundling, boundary setting, and the privatization of legal information / Frederick Schauer and Virginia J. Wise -- Making social markets : dispersed governance and corporate accountability / Archon Fung -- Lessons from the American experiment with market-based environmental policies / Robert Stavins -- Management-based regulatory strategies / Cary Coglianese and David Lazer -- The end of government as we know it / Elaine Ciulla Kamarck -- The problem of public jobs / John D. Donahue -- Privatizing public management / Mark H. Moore -- Government performance and the conundrum of public trust / Robert D. Behn.

Sommario/riassunto

A Brookings Institution Press and Visions of Governance for the 21st Century publication The latest in a series exploring twenty-first-century governance, this new volume examines the use of market means to pursue public goals. Market-based governance includes both



the delegation of traditionally governmental functions to private players, and the importation into government of market-style management approaches and mechanisms of accountability. The contributors (all from Harvard University) assess market-based governance from four perspectives: The demand side deals with new, revised, or newly