telecommunications industry, the deregulation of the Swedish taxi and postal industries, Californian telecommunications i …

firms undertake them if incentives are strong enough. -- Privatization ; public sector contracting ; incomplete contracts …

A common argument against privatization is that private providers will self-interestedly lobby to increase the size of … their market. In this Article, I evaluate this argument, using, as a case study, the argument against prison privatization … conclude that there is at present no particular reason to credit this argument. Even without privatization, actors in the …

effect on non-contractible quality. The model is applied to understanding the costs and benefits of prison privatization …

I show that political ideology was critical in shaping China's privatization wave around 2000. Based on belief … fundamental impetus for privatization and demonstrates ideology's substantial impact on corporate ownership structure …