Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo tiene como objetivo incorporar la noción de 'redes políticas' en el análisis de la actividad normativa, a los efectos de determinar si es posible modelar patrones de interacción entre los actores en el proceso político, no sólo en el proceso de...

The privatization literature depicts the choice whether to contract out as a tradeoff between excessive private investment in quality-reducing cost saving and inadequate public investment in cost-increasing quality improvement, under circumstances where neither the amount of investment nor the...

Critics of privatization argue that privatization encourages providers to lobby for industry expansion. I argue that this is not generally true when public-sector actors also lobby. Where the effectiveness of advocacy depends on total expenditures, some initial amount of privatization always...

Early proponents of development administration advanced a paradigm based on a search for technically superior models, the study and acceptability of cross-cultural public management experiences, and the promotion of policy management styles and structures oriented to particular ideological...

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 based on the possibility that the private prison...

Bureaucrats work within formal hierarchies, and with formal procedures, but often nevertheless choose to solve certain problems in very informal ways. However, government reform efforts often focus on formal hierarchical changes, as opposed to engaging directly with this question of bureaucrats'...

There is a great deal of variation in the extent of state ownership of enterprises across countries and despite the growing consensus over the benefits of privatization many countries continue to maintain large public sectors. Currently, there are two prominent theories that purport to explain...

Advisory committees are a ubiquitous yet understudied feature of the administrative state. More than seventy-five thousand experts from outside the federal government serve on over one thousand committees across the executive branch, providing agencies with informed “second opinions” to...

This is the first and only casebook geared entirely to the study of access to government, or freedom of information law, in the United States. Unlike other treatments that focus exclusively on the federal FOIA or on statutory FOI, this book takes a broader approach, recognizing that...

Procurement professionals will increasingly be asked to play an important role in adapting to and mitigating the effects of climate change. Unfortunately, we don't have time to waste, either feeling hopeless or waiting for changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and subsequent...