As governments continue to privatize infrastructure services like electricity or gas the importance of private … infrastructure providers increases. After some years these providers are often confronted with stricter state regulation that impacts … several infrastructure industries like power, telephone and railroads in the US and Germany it analyses self-regulation in …

market subsidies (like vouchers) or privatization - which both face increasing criticism. Uniting scholars from across … disciplines, this volume delves into the theory of the public option, explores several important case studies, and shows how … public options could be a corrective to the trend toward privatization and subsidies. This title is also available as Open …