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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Donahue, John D.

Visions of Governance in the 21st Century (Program)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government business enterprises.

Privatization.

Physical Description:

xii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2002.

Summary:

The past quarter century of experiments with market means for pursuing public goals has deepened the reservoir of evidence on a hotly controversial topic. In this book sixteen authors assess this evidence -- from a full circle of scholarly vantage points -- to clarify the potential, and the risks, of market-based governance. A preface by Joseph S. Nye Jr. sets the tone for the inquiry, and the first chapter by John D. Donahue casts market-based governance as an effort to crossbreed the "intensive accountability" that defines markets with the "extensive accountability" characteristic of government. The chapters that follow explore particular aspects of market-based governance.

The first section examines the "demand side" -- issues surrounding the public sector's role as a customer. Karen Eggleston, Richard Zeckhauser, and Peter Frumkin illuminate the debate over whether and when government should turn to the market to accomplish its missions, while Steven Kelman engages the often-neglected issue of how. Next, Georges de Menil, Frederick Schauer, and Virginia Wise engage the "supply side," taking up unsettled questions about government's role as a provider within the market system.

In the third section Robert Stavins, Archon Fung, Cary Coglianese, and David Lazer review the evidence on efforts to orchestrate accountability outside government by altering the incentives that operate inside market institutions. Elaine Kamarck, John D. Donahue, Mark Moore, and Robert Behn map both the upside and the downside of the market-based approach to improving governance in a final section.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0815706286

0815706278

OCLC:

49576324