There are several theoretical accounts of public sector outsourcing. We note that leading theories give different … predictions of the influence of political variables and test the predictions on a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies … suggests that the political color of the ruling majority matters for outsourcing, which is consistent with the citizen …

We survey the literature on the effects of public sector outsourcing. Guided by theory, we systematically arrange … indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces costs without hurting quality. This is clearly the case for … “perfectly contractible services” like garbage collection, but outsourcing often seems to work reasonably well also for some …