Part I. Understanding the public option: The failure of privatization -- How the public option promotes opportunity and competition -- The theory of the public option -- Caveats and counterarguments -- Part II. The history of the public option: Social security and other successes -- Mixed...

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 --...