BIBLIOGRAPHY ON PRIVATIZATION AND CONTRACTING OUT
AUTHOR(S): Hiroki Akioka
TITLE/TITRE: An Estimation of Average Cost Function and a Comparison of
Operating Costs (Public vs Regulated Private Enterprise) in the
Japanese Municipal Gas Industry Analysis of Cross Section and Panel
Data. (In Japanese. With English summary.)
SOURCE: Osaka Economic Papers, 42 (1-2, September 1992), 1992, p.
186-99.
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ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Public Enterprises (6140)/Energy (7230)/Industry Studies
Electrical, Gas, Communication, and Information Services
(6352)/Regulation of Public Utilities (6130)
GEOG. AREA: Japan
AUTHOR(S): Stephen Alfred
TITLE/TITRE: Incentives key to revenue enhancement.
SOURCE: American City & County, 109 (Nov. 1994), 1994, p. 10
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ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Contracting out Municipal finance United
States
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Karen Angelici ; Raymond J. Struyk ; Marie Tikhomirova
TITLE/TITRE: Private Maintenance for Moscow's Municipal Housing Stock:
Does It Work?
SOURCE: Journal of Housing Economics, 4 (1, March 1995), 1995, p.
50-70.
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ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Public Enterprises (6140)/Economic Planning Policy
(1136)/Economic Planning Theory (1132)/Socialist and Communist Economic
Systems (0520)/Centrally Planned Economies Macroeconomic Theory
(0272)/Centrally Planned Economies Microeconomic Theory (0271)/Housing
Economics including urban and nonurban housing (9320)
GEOG. AREA: Russia
AUTHOR(S):
TITLE/TITRE: Baton Rouge tackles massive project.
SOURCE: American City & County, 110 (Mar. 1995), 1995, p. 35-6
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Sewage disposal plants Environmental aspects Baton Rouge
(La/) Municipal services Management by contract
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): James T. Bennett
TITLE/TITRE: Privatizing Municipal Services
SOURCE: New Opportunities for Entrepreneurship. Institut fur
Weltwirtschaft an der Universitat Kiel Symposium 1983, 1984, p. 44-57.
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): State and Local Government Finance General (3240)/Trade
Unions (8310)/Public Enterprises (6140)/Social Choice General (0250)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): J. Edwin Menzel, Donald C. Benton
TITLE/TITRE: Contracting and franchising county services in Florida.
SOURCE: Urban Affairs Quarterly, 27 (Mar. 1992), 1992, p. 436-56
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): County finance Florida Municipal services Contracting out
Municipal franchises
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Arunava Bhattacharyya ; Elliott Parker ; Kambiz Raffiee
TITLE/TITRE: An Examination of the Effect of Ownership on the Relative
Efficiency of Public and Private Water Utilities
SOURCE: Land Economics, 70 (2, May 1994), 1994, p. 197-209.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: The behavior of privately and publicly owned water utilities
is examined by estimating a generalized variable cost function
containing the regular characteristics of the neoclassical cost
function without requiring that cost minimization subject to market
prices be imposed as a maintained hypothesis. Assuming that unobserved
shadow prices reflect the regulatory environment of the water industry,
tests for cost minimization are obtained by deriving shadow prices as
functions of market prices. The empirical results provide evidence that
public water utilities are more efficient than private utilities on
average but are more widely dispersed between best and worst practice.
KEYWORD(S): Public Enterprises (6140)/Energy (7230)/Industry Studies
Electrical, Gas, Communication, and Information Services
(6352)/Regulation of Public Utilities (6130)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): Robert L. Bland
TITLE/TITRE: The Interest Cost Savings from Municipal Bond Insurance:
The Implications for Privatization
SOURCE: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 6 (2, Winter 1987),
1987, p. 207-19.
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ABSTRACT: Previous studies of privatization have considered the cost
effectiveness of privatizing more labor-intensive services. This study
examines the effectiveness of public and private delivery o f a more
capital-intensive service: insuring municipal bonds against default.
Private insurance companies and some state governments provide credit
enhancement for local government bonds. Given their reduced default
risk, bonds backed by a third party should incur lower interest rates.
This research considers two questions. Does a third party guarantee
lower interest rates? Is private bond insurance more cost effective
than the credit-enhancement programs of state governments in lowering
interest rates?
KEYWORD(S): Capital Markets Empirical Studies, Including Regulation
(3132)/State and Local Government Expenditures and Budgeting (3241)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): Anthony E. Boardman ; Aidan R. Vining
TITLE/TITRE: Ownership and Performance in Competitive Environments: A
Comparison of the Performance of Private, Mixed, and State Owned
Enterprises
SOURCE: Journal of Law and Economics, 32 (1, April 1989), 1989, p.
1-33.
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ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Market Structure: Industrial Organization and Corporate
Strategy (6110)/Capitalist Economic Systems: Market Economies
(0510)/Public Enterprises (6140)
GEOG. AREA: Selected-Countries
AUTHOR(S): Richard L. Bowen ; James E. T. Moncur ; Richard L. Pollock
TITLE/TITRE: Rent Seeking, Wealth Transfers and Water Rights: The
Hawaii Case
SOURCE: Natural Resources Journal, 31 (3, Summer 1991), 1991, p.
429-48.
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ABSTRACT: The potential for large and questionable wealth transfers in
the creation of private markets in water rights has generally been
ignored in the literature, particularly that of the New Resource
Economics. This oversight raises many questions in that self-serving
rent seeking is an unavoidable part of the political process required
for institutional development and reform. This paper examines the
distributional implications of choosing between market-oriented and
government directed water allocation systems, a choice posed by recent
constitutional, legal, and administrative developments in Hawaii. The
authors' case study shows that large economic rents would be recouped
by a few private landowners, with little commensurate offsetting
increases in wealth or efficiency (that is, "rent creation"). To avoid
such undesired transfers, alternative means of achieving efficiency in
water allocation in Hawaii, such as auctions, deserve consideration.
KEYWORD(S): Conservation and Pollution (7220)/Natural Resources General
(7210)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): Kenneth D. (Reviewer) Boyer
TITLE/TITRE: Review of: Going private: The international experience
with transport privatization
SOURCE: Journal of Economic Literature, 33 (1, March 1995), 1995, p.
262-264.
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ABSTRACT: The history of transportation regulation contains so many
lurid stories of distortions, inefficiencies, and blatant accommodation
of undeserving economic interests, that it is easy to be distrustful of
any government involvement in the sector. Over the last two decades,
the paean to transportation deregulation has developed into a genre.
The reader has reason to be wary when approaching a book like Going
Private for fear that it will be yet one more sermon on the familiar
topic of why the government should not be involved in transportation.
Happily, this Brookings volume, based on previous reports and papers by
the two authors, is not a tract, but a perceptive account of
experiences with transport privatization in developing and developed
nations. The authors clearly favor private operation wherever feasible,
but they recognize its limitations. For example, they observe that much
of the cost savings of private over public operations is due to lower
compensation rates to labor and is thus not a true efficiency gain but
an income transfer. In fact, they conclude that the major benefit of
privatization is not higher static efficiency but the increased
willingness of private operators to experiment with new methods and
pricing schemes. This book is divided into three main parts: global
experiences with privatization of urban bus operations; a history of
modern, private high-performance highways; and a description of
privatization proposals for airports and rail transit. Shorter sections
introduce the book and suggest conclusions that may be applicable
outside the transport sector. Urban bus transport is provided around
the world in many different settings, from unregulated private
operations to the government service familiar in American cities. The
authors believe that the regulatory environment corresponds to a place
in a privatization-regulation cycle. Privatization follows declining
efficiency, subsidy and service cuts, and fare increases. It precedes
entrepreneurship, consolidation, regulation, and decline in
profitability. Privatization is likely to be accompanied by fare
regulation, though it can come about simultaneously with fare freedom
or subsidies. In most developing countries, competition and the threat
of competition from new entrants appear sufficient to discipline an
unregulated industry. Urban bus privatization in Britain has seen lower
subsidy levels, lower wage levels, constant employment, constant
productivity, slightly lower cost levels, and no major changes in
service levels. The prime benefit seen by the authors in the British
system is a greater willingness of private service providers to
innovate. This is also the major disadvantage of contracting-out, the
only experience that the U.S. has had with transit bus privatization;
when services are contracted out, the contracts are written by the
public agency and thus there is less likelihood of service innovations.
The second focus of this volume is on high-performance highways. The
chief modern examples of private highway construction are in France,
Spain, Mexico, and some nations in South East Asia. In each case, the
forces leading to toll financing were the mundane problems of raising
capital. There is little discussion of the economic benefits of toll
roads--optimal decisions of drivers when deciding when and where to
travel and what route and mode to take. Because efficiency concerns do
not motivate the choice of private ownership of toll roads, it is not
surprising that the efficiency gains from using private expressways are
small. The authors also draw lessons from some failed private
transportation projects in the United States--for example, airport
privatization in Albany, New York, and a maglev line in Orlando,
Florida. The latter is especially instructive because the project,
though apparently financially viable, was blocked at least partly
though the objections of real estate interests whose relative
accessibility would be reduced by being off the path of the monorail.
Expected profitability is no guarantee that a project can be privatized
successfully. In fact, the authors note that excessive profitability is
almost as much of a barrier to privatization as are projected losses.
In sum, the authors have collected experiences from around the world to
develop a recipe for successful transport privatization. A project must
not have problems with market power; it should have large efficiency
gains; it should not generate too much redistribution of wealth;
optimally it should have little in the way of external effects; and it
should neither require a subsidy nor produce a large profit. Given this
formula, it is not surprising that the U.S. experience with
privatization is so meager. The final chapter suggests that the lessons
of transportation privatization extend to other government activities
as well. This reader is skeptical. Transportation economics is
different. The benefits of transport infrastructure improvements are
intensely local as are the costs; improvements in one service can
devastate the economies of those areas not served by the improvement;
network economies give advantages to operators with large service
areas; differences in the markets served by different routes mean that
one operator may make losses while another will make a profit even if
each is equally efficient, thus limiting the ability of entry to limit
market power. It may be that in sectors like health, education, and
defense, decisions are not as dominated by financial considerations as
they appear to be in the stories of transport privatization told by the
authors. Even if the lessons are not more widely applicable, this is a
valuable contribution to the field of transportation economics. It is a
realistic, sober, and fair evaluation of a wide variety of
transportation privatization schemes. The recipe book produced by the
authors seems logical and convincing. This volume is in the best
tradition of transportation economics and is well worth reading for
those interested in the field.
KEYWORD(S): Regulation of Public Utilities (6130)/Economics of
Transportation (6150)/Nonprofit Industries: Theory and Studies
(6360)/Urban Transportation Economics (9330)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Thomas H. Bruggink
TITLE/TITRE: Public versus Regulated Private Enterprise in the
Municipal Water Industry: A Comparison of Operating Costs
SOURCE: Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, 22 (1, Spring
1982), 1982, p. 111-25.
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ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Natural Resources General (7210)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): Timothy D. Feuille, Peter Chandler
TITLE/TITRE: Cities, unions, and the privatization of sanitation
services.
SOURCE: Journal of Labor Research, 15 (Winter 1994), 1994, p. 53-71
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Contracting out Refuse collection Labor
unions United States Government employees
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Timothy Chandler
TITLE/TITRE: Municipal unions and privatization.
SOURCE: Public Administration Review (Washington, D.C.), 51 (Jan./Feb.
1991), 1991, p. 15-22
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services United States Privatization United
States Labor unions United States Government employees
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Timothy David Chandler
TITLE/TITRE: Public Sector Unions and the Privatization of Municipal
Services
SOURCE: Dissertation Abstracts International, A: The Humanities and
Social Sciences, 52 (7, Jan. 1992), 1992, p. 2719-A
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Local Government (D470700)/Public Sector (D682800)/Unions
(D888900)/Privatization (D661600)/Public Services (D683100)/Cities
(D129600)/Sanitation (D737400)/Blue Collar Workers (D087000)/complex
organization/jobs, work organization, workplaces, & unions (0621)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Timothy D. Chandler
TITLE/TITRE: Sanitation privatization and sanitation employees' wages.
SOURCE: Journal of Labor Research, 15 (Spring 1994), 1994, p. 137-53
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Sanitation workers Salaries, pensions, etc/Refuse
collection Municipal services Contracting out
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Timothy D. Chandler ; Peter Feuille
TITLE/TITRE: Cities, Unions, and the Privatization of Sanitation
Services
SOURCE: Journal of Labor Research, 15 (1, Winter 1994), 1994, p. 53-71.
FILE:
ABSTRACT: We analyzed 740 cities to determine whether they considered
or adopted the contracting out of their sanitation collection service.
The presence of a municipal sanitation union reduces the likelihood
that a city considers the contracting-out option and the likelihood of
adoption of the privatization alternative, but only in those cities
which have cooperative relations with the union.
KEYWORD(S): Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector (8321)/Public
Enterprises (6140)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): George Cho
TITLE/TITRE: The Malaysian economy: Spatial perspectives
SOURCE: , 1990, p. 314.
FILE:
ABSTRACT: Provides a spatial perspective on the Malaysian economy since
independence in 1957, describing the impact of economic development on
the land and its people. Examines the nature of the economy and the
social environment, and describes the geographical context of the
country's regional and global status. Traces development planning from
independence up to 1990, reviewing the aims, objectives, achievements,
and shortcomings of the eight formal development plans. Identifies and
evaluates the ongoing programs, projects, and trends in Malaysian rural
development, considering the impact on rural dwellers. Examines the
transformation of the cities, highlighting urbanization, rural-urban
drift, urban unemployment, and conflicts between the formal and the
informal sectors. Discusses the Malaysian industrial transformation,
focusing on the replacement of import-substitution industries with
export-oriented, heavy and high technology industries; the failure of
technology transfer; dualism in the industrial structure; and the
future prospects for the industrialization strategy. Examines
Malaysia's sociopolitical economy in the 1980s, describing Malaysia's
attractiveness to foreign investment; complexities that derive from
cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity; friction between the
hereditary rulers and the executive arm of the government; the special
position of the states of Sabah and Sarawak; and the privatization of
public enterprises. Cho is Lecturer in the School of Applied Science,
Belconnen, Australia. Index.
KEYWORD(S): Economic Studies of Developing Countries General (1210)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Bonnie G. Colby
TITLE/TITRE: Estimating the Value of Water in Alternative Uses
SOURCE: Natural Resources Journal, 29 (2, Spring 1989), 1989, p.
511-27.
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ABSTRACT: Many public and private decisions regarding water use,
allocation, and management require estimation of water's value in
alternative uses. This paper discusses economic concepts essential in
valuing water, outlines and compares market and nonmarket based
approaches used to estimate water values, and reviews the application
of these methodologies for valuing water in instream, irrigation,
municipal and industrial uses in the western United States.
KEYWORD(S): Natural Resources General (7210)/Economics of Law and Crime
(9160)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): L. Gray Cowan
TITLE/TITRE: Privatization in the developing world
SOURCE: Contributions in Economics and Economic History (112), 1990, p.
147.
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ABSTRACT: A basic text on privatization techniques and methods intended
for the government officers in the developing world in charge of
devising the government's strategy for a privatization program and
implementing the decision to divest. Describes the rise of the
state-owned sector and its failure, and the current renewal of interest
in privatization. Reviews the motivations for adopting a privatization
strategy. Describes the political risks, the need for suitable
institutions and institutional capabilities if the privatizing process
is to go forward, the possibility of objections from labor, and ways
these problems can be addressed. Examines the implementation of a
disinvestment plan, discussing techniques for choosing the candidates
for disinvestment, preparing a state-owned enterprise for sale, and
selling a state-owned enterprise. Considers mixed ownership as a
problem in privatization and management contracting as a prelude to
privatization. Presents an overview of some of the less developed
countries' experiences with the privatization of municipal services,
energy supplies, telecommunications systems, and health and education
services. Discusses special aspects of agricultural privatization and
techniques for encouraging it. Considers the future of privatization in
the developing world. Presents case histories in privatization, drawing
on experiences in Jamaica, Costa Rica, Tunisia, and Malawi. Cowan is a
former Dean of the Graduate School of Public Affairs at SUNY, Albany.
Selected bibliography; index.
KEYWORD(S): Nonprofit Industries: Theory and Studies (6360)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): W. Mark Crain ; Asghar Zardkoohi
TITLE/TITRE: A Test of the Property Rights Theory of the Firm: Water
Utilities in the United States
SOURCE: Journal of Law and Economics, 21 (2, Oct. 1978), 1978, p.
395-408.
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ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Public Enterprises (6140)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): Marilyn Dantico ; Nancy Jurik
TITLE/TITRE: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone? The Effect of
Government Service Privatization on Women Workers
SOURCE: Contemporary Crises, 10 (4), 1986, p. 421-439
FILE:
ABSTRACT: An exploration of the effects of privatization of government
service on working women in the US labor force, based on published
literature, secondary data, & a case study of privatization of several
municipal services in Phoenix, Ariz. Results suggest that both relative
to white Ms & absolutely, women's rank, wages, & future advancement
opportunities will be negatively affected by declining government work
opportunities. 45 References. Modified HA (Copyright 1988, Sociological
Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
KEYWORD(S): Private Sector (D661500)/Government Agencies
(D333600)/Sexual Inequality (D762900)/Working Women (D930900)/Phoenix,
Arizona (D624900)/complex organization/jobs, work organization,
workplaces, & unions (0621)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Charles A. M. De Bartolome ; James B. Ramsey
TITLE/TITRE: The Privatization of the New York City Subway
SOURCE: New York University Economic Research Reports (92-32, July
1992), 1992, p. 26.
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ABSTRACT: The privatization of the New York City subway is proposed.
Each line should be operated separately. The operator should pay a
fixed price for the capital associated with the line and bid a profit
share to be paid to the city. Statistics suggest the New York City
subway is operated similarly to other subways and that similar benefits
would be realized by the privatization of other subways. We provide an
upper bound on the competitive fare which compares favorably with fares
charged by buses and taxis.
KEYWORD(S): Urban Transportation Economics (9330)/Public Enterprises
(6140)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Simon Hensher ,. David Domberger
TITLE/TITRE: On the performance of competitively tendered, public
sector cleaning contracts.
SOURCE: Public Administration, 71 (Autumn 1993), 1993, p. 441-54
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Contracts, Government Municipal services Contracting out
Cleaners (Persons) Great Britain
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): William D. Eggers
TITLE/TITRE: Designing a Comprehensive State-Level Privatization
Program
SOURCE: How-to Guide, 1, 1993, p. 29
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ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S):
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): William D. Eggers
TITLE/TITRE: Privatization Opportunities for States
SOURCE: Policy Study, 154, 1993, p. 34
FILE: CIRANO, Mono R42 S7
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S):
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): William D. Eggers
TITLE/TITRE: Rightsizing Government: Lessons for America's
Public-Sector Innovators
SOURCE: How-to Guide, 11, 1993, p. 26
FILE: CIRANO, Mono R42 S7
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S):
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S):
TITLE/TITRE: Expanding contracting.
SOURCE: Economist, 301 (Oct. 18 1986), 1986, p. 66
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Contracting out
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S):
TITLE/TITRE: Experts examine privatization success.
SOURCE: Public Management, 74 (Mar. 1992), 1992, p. 27
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Privatization Developing countries Municipal services
Contracting out
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Frank Zuercher ,. Ed Fairbanks
TITLE/TITRE: What's wrong with the Phoenix model? A model of
competitively bid services.
SOURCE: Public Management, 76 (Dec. 1994), 1994, p. 19-22
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Phoenix (Ariz/) Municipal services Contracts, Government
Municipal services Contracting out
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Roger D. Feldman ; Thomas M. Ingoldsby
TITLE/TITRE: Techniques for Mining the Public Balance Sheet
SOURCE: How-to Guide, 10, 1993, p. 16
FILE: CIRANO, Mono R42 S7
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S):
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): James Graddy ,. Elizabeth Ferris
TITLE/TITRE: Contracting out: for what? with whom?.
SOURCE: Public Administration Review (Washington, D.C.), 46 (July/Aug.
1986), 1986, p. 332-44
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Contracts, Government Municipal services United States
Public works United States
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): James M. Ferris
TITLE/TITRE: The decision to contract out: an empirical analysis.
SOURCE: Urban Affairs Quarterly, 22 (Dec. 1986), 1986, p. 289-311
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Cost effectiveness Municipal services Contracting out Local
government United States
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): James M. Graddy, Elizabeth Ferris
TITLE/TITRE: Production costs, transaction costs, and local government
contractor choice.
SOURCE: Economic Inquiry, 29 (July 1991), 1991, p. 541-54
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Production costs Transaction costs Local government
Mathematical models Municipal services Contracting out
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): James M. Ferris ; Elizabeth Graddy
TITLE/TITRE: Production Costs, Transaction Costs, and Local Government
Contractor Choice
SOURCE: Economic Inquiry, 29 (3, July 1991), 1991, p. 541-54.
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ABSTRACT: Local governments that choose to externally produce a service
can contract with other governments, for-profit firms, or nonprofit
organizations. This contractor choice is modeled as one in which the
local government decisionmaker minimizes service delivery costs, both
production and transaction costs, subject to political and fiscal
constraints. The model is estimated using data on three frequently
contracted health services obtained from a national survey of local
government service delivery arrangements. The empirical analysis
reveals the importance of both production and transaction costs, as
well as the choice set of available suppliers, to contractor choice.
KEYWORD(S): State and Local Government Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
(3242)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): David Firestone
TITLE/TITRE: Giuliani to offer plan for selling of water system.
SOURCE: New York Times (Late New York Edition) (Apr. 25 1995), 1995, p.
A1.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: A top aide said yesterday that Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani will
propose selling New York City's water system to the New York Water
Board in the hopes of making the system more efficient and gaining some
revenue for the city. The city's budget director said the $2.3 billion
sale to the quasi-independent city agency would generate about $800
million in cash, which the city could use for long-term construction
spending over the next four years.
KEYWORD(S): New York (N/Y/) Privatization New York (N/Y/) Water supply
Giuliani, Rudolph W/New York (N/Y/) Water Board
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Michael R. Fitzgerald ; William Lyons ; Floydette C. Cory
TITLE/TITRE: From Administration to Oversight: Privatization and Its
Aftermath in a Southern City
SOURCE: Market-based public policy. Policy Studies Organization series,
1988, p. 69-83.
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ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Public Enterprises (6140)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): Randall Fitzgerald
TITLE/TITRE: When government goes private: Successful alternatives to
public services
SOURCE: , 1988, p. 330.
FILE:
ABSTRACT: Investigates privatization as a viable option, particularly
for financially hard pressed large cities as well as small towns.
Describes a number of programs such as saving neighborhoods,
transforming the public housing environment, making local government
more responsive, streamlining the justice system, building prisons for
profit, insuring hospital survival, breaking the public education
monopoly, rebuilding the infrastructure, and unleashing hoarded public
assets. Also discusses privatizing federal spending such as defense
spending, railroads, postal services, space, and health care. Argues
that privatization diminishes neither the concept of community nor the
sense of public purpose. Fitzgerald is a staff writer for Reader's
Digest and a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal.
Bibliography; index.
KEYWORD(S): Public Enterprises (6140)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Peck James Foreman ; Robert Millward
TITLE/TITRE: Public and private ownership of British industry, 1820
1990
SOURCE: , 1994, p. 386.
FILE:
ABSTRACT: Examines infrastructure industries in the British economy
over the period 1820-1990, focusing on varying levels of government
involvement as well as the performance of various institutional
arrangements and the reasons for their rise and fall. Discusses
competition in the new network technology industries, 1820-70; railways
and other national communications networks, 1870-1914; and gas and
telegraph in the late nineteenth century--prices, profits, and
government. Addresses the municipal ownership of infrastructure in the
period 1870-1920, explaining the shift to public ownership at the local
level. Considers the relationship between ownership and cost
effectiveness, examining evidence from the early twentieth century.
Provides international comparisons of the performance of national
networks in the interwar period. Explores the causes and content of the
1940s nationalizations in Great Britain. Assesses the performance of
the British nationalized industries over the period 1950-85. Discusses
the privatization of industry in the 1980s. Foreman-Peck is University
Lecturer in Economic History at St. Antony's College, Oxford. Millward
is Professor of Economic History at the University of Manchester.
Bibliography; index.
KEYWORD(S): Public Enterprises (6140)/Economic History Ancient and
Medieval History of Public Economic Policy, all levels (0433)/Economic
History Europe History of Public Economic Policy, all levels (0443)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Deborah Foster
TITLE/TITRE: Industrial relations in local government: the impact of
privatisation.
SOURCE: Political Quarterly, 64 (Jan./Mar. 1993), 1993, p. 49-59
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Contracting out Labor unions Great
Britain Government employees Industrial relations Great Britain Local
Government Finance Act 1988 (Great Britain)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Dermot Glynn
TITLE/TITRE: Economic Regulation of the Privatized Water Industry
SOURCE: Privatization and ownership. Lloyds Bank Annual Review series,
vol. 1. London and New York: Pinter, 1988, p. 77-92
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ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Regulation of Public Utilities (6130)/Public Enterprises
(6140)/Natural Resources General (7210)
GEOG. AREA: United-Kingdom
AUTHOR(S): Jacques T. Godbout
TITLE/TITRE: Big Solutions for Small Problems ... About
Decentralization; Des grandes solutions pour des petits problemes ... A
propos de la decentralisation
SOURCE: Revue internationale d'action communautaire /
International-Review-of-Community-Development, 20 (60, autumn 1988),
1988, p. 139-143
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: It is claimed that centralization & privatization are not the
only possible ways of organizing social & health services in Quebec; an
alternative is outlined, based on decentralization & users' control,
which would represent a return not only to the pre-1960s municipal
system, but to the roots of participatory democracy. The advantages of
developing local management & autonomy in the areas of health & welfare
are argued to outweigh any potential risks. 5 References. B. Convert
(Copyright 1990, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
KEYWORD(S): Quebec (D687900)/Health Services (D353700)/Social Services
(D800100)/Decentralization (D200700)/Health Policy (D352800)/social
change and economic development/social change & economic development
(0715)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Ibanez Jose A. Gomez ; John R. Meyer
TITLE/TITRE: Going private: The international experience with transport
privatization
SOURCE: , 1993, p. 310.
FILE:
ABSTRACT: Describes the experiences of various countries with the
privatization of transportation. Considers the comparative advantages
and disadvantages of public and private sectors in this area, taking
into account the conventional concerns of cost and financing, as well
as the often neglected dimensions of siting, equity, income transfers,
pricing, and government regulation. Discusses the
privatization-regulation cycle regarding urban bus service that is
experienced by many cities and examines the privatization of urban bus
transit in various developing countries, in Great Britain, and in the
United States. Explores some trends and issues in privatizing highways
discussing the experiences of France and Spain; infrastructure
privatization in the developing countries; and private toll roads in
the United States. Examines airport privatization in Britain and the
United States; the U.S. experience with private rail transit; and the
political economy of profitability and pricing. Considers lessons that
may be relevant to other sectors of transport and other industries.
Gomez-Ibanez is Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning and Meyer
is Professor of Capital Formation and Economic Growth at Harvard
University. Index.
KEYWORD(S): Regulation of Public Utilities (6130)/Economics of
Transportation (6150)/Nonprofit Industries: Theory and Studies
(6360)/Urban Transportation Economics (9330)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Gerald Michael Greenfield
TITLE/TITRE: Privatism and Urban Development in Latin America: The Case
of Sao Paulo, Brazil
SOURCE: Journal of Urban History, 8 (4, August 1982), 1982, p. 397-426
FILE:
ABSTRACT: The manifestation of privatism in the context of the
urbanization of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the late nineteenth & early
twentieth centuries is studied. The history of Sao Paulo is traced to
demonstrate some parallels with US industrial cities. Patterns of
privatism are found in the areas of urban services & housing, spatial
expansion, & municipal government. The roles of elite groups,
entrepreneurs, & private profit-oriented concerns are examined. Antonio
Prado's major concerns as prefect are shown to reflect elite values &
attitudes. The process by which upper class values were translated into
the ordering of urban priorities should be further examined. K. Carande
(Copyright 1986, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
KEYWORD(S): Sao Paulo, Brazil (D738300)/Brazil (D095400)/Private Sector
(D661500)/Urban Development (D892800)/social development/rural
development (8355)
GEOG. AREA: SWao Paulo, Brazil. Selected US cities
AUTHOR(S): John Wilson ,. David Greenwood
TITLE/TITRE: Towards the contract state: CCT in local government.
SOURCE: Parliamentary Affairs, 47 (July 1994), 1994, p. 405-19
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Contracts, Government Local government Great Britain
Municipal services Contracting out
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Timothy J. Hwang, Hae Shin Gronberg
TITLE/TITRE: On the privatization of excludable public goods.
SOURCE: Southern Economic Journal, 58 (Apr. 1992), 1992, p. 904-21
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Public goods Mathematical models Municipal services
Contracting out Privatization Mathematical models
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Shawna Grosskopf ; Suthathip Yaisawarng
TITLE/TITRE: Economies of Scope in the Provision of Local Public
Services
SOURCE: National Tax Journal, 43 (1, March 1990), 1990, p. 61-74.
FILE:
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to model municipalities as
multiproduct "firms" and measure economies of scope. The authors'
technique--based on Farrell-type efficiency measures--is applied to a
sample of California municipalities. Although primarily illustrative,
their results suggest that potential economies of scope may well exist
in the provision of municipal services, which in turn suggests
consideration of such effects when analyzing the case for privatization
of public services.
KEYWORD(S): State and Local Government Finance General (3240)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): David Haarmeyer
TITLE/TITRE: Privatizing Infrastructure: Options for Municipal
Water-Supply Systems
SOURCE: Reason Foundation Policy Insight, 152, 1992, p. 42
FILE: CIRANO, Mono R42 S7
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S):
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Eberhard Hamer
TITLE/TITRE: Creating New Entrepreneurship by Privatizing Municipal
Services
SOURCE: New Opportunities for Entrepreneurship. Institut fur
Weltwirtschaft an der Universitat Kiel Symposium 1983, 1984, p. 58-69.
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Public Enterprises (6140)/State and Local Government
Finance General (3240)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Steve H. Hanke
TITLE/TITRE: The Economics of Canadian Municipal Water Supply: Applying
the User Pay Principle
SOURCE: Entrepreneurship and the Privatizing of Government. New York
and London: Greenwood Press, Quorum Books, 1987, p. 177-94.
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Regulation of Public Utilities (6130)
GEOG. AREA: Canada
AUTHOR(S): Martin D. Hanlon
TITLE/TITRE: The Private Sector Moves in: The Union Response
SOURCE: Social Policy, 13 (4, spring), 1983, p. 49-53
FILE:
ABSTRACT: The response of selected public employee unions to the
privatization of the residential care & treatment of the mentally
retarded is described. A reduction in the role of government underlies
efforts to contract out many human service area tasks to the private
sector. Several state-run institutions for the retarded have thus been
closed, resulting in the loss of union jobs. Two projects undertaken by
the American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees to
compete with private-sector community homes for the retarded are
reviewed: The Joint Union Management Training Program in NY, & the Lad
Center Program in RI. The programs demonstrate the need for public
unions of human-service employees to form mutually advantageous
coalitions with their clients & communities. R. McCarthy (Copyright
1987, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
KEYWORD(S): United States of America (D890700)/Mentally Retarded
(D512100)/Residential Institutions (D711900)/Human Services
(D375000)/Private Sector (D661500)/Public Sector (D682800)/Unions
(D888900)/social welfare/private sector &/or public sector activities
in social welfare (6130)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Donald F. Harney
TITLE/TITRE: Service contracting: A local government guide
SOURCE: Municipal Management Series., 1992, p. 251.
FILE:
ABSTRACT: Presents a guide for local government managers and their
staffs who are faced with establishing, expanding, or refining service
contracting programs. Explains the mechanics of the local government
service contracting process. Provides an overview of management issues
in service contracting and discusses organizing for service
contracting. Illustrates the bid document preparation process from
planning to opening and bid responses, guidelines for writing the scope
of the work, and common problems in the development of the bid
document. Outlines procedures for the evaluation of bidders and their
bid responses, and includes suggestions for creating contract documents
and dealing with contractor protests. Discusses preparing for
monitoring the contract, monitoring performance, and dealing with poor
performance. Covers different types of transition at the close of a
contract and presents a plan for publicization, the process whereby the
local government resumes delivery of a service that has been contracted
out to the private sector. Harney is the purchasing agent of Arlington
County, Virginia. Glossary; index.
KEYWORD(S): Administration General (5100)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Werner Z. Hirsch
TITLE/TITRE: Contracting out by urban governments: a review.
SOURCE: Urban Affairs Review, 30 (Jan. 1995), 1995, p. 458-72
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Contracting out
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Charles Hoch
TITLE/TITRE: Municipal contracting in California: privatizing with
class.
SOURCE: Urban Affairs Quarterly, 20 (Mar. 1985), 1985, p. 303-23
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Contracting out Los Angeles County
(Calif/) Municipal services
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Randall G. Holcombe
TITLE/TITRE: Privatization of Municipal Wastewater Treatment
SOURCE: Public Budgeting and Finance, 11 (3, Fall 1991), 1991, p.
28-42.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: Privatization of wastewater treatment facilities was
encouraged by changes in the law and in the attitude of government
officials during the early 1980s. The idea was for localities to
benefit from the efficiency gains expected when operations were
transferred from municipal administration to a profit-making
organization. However, significant differences between the ideal and
reality often existed, particularly when contracts all but eliminated
the profit motive.
KEYWORD(S): Conservation and Pollution (7220)/Natural Resources General
(7210)/Public Enterprises (6140)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): Randall G. Holcombe
TITLE/TITRE: The Tax Cost of Privatization
SOURCE: Southern Economic Journal, 56 (3, January 1990), 1990, p.
732-42.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: A substantial tax penalty must be incurred to privatize
municipal government services. The municipality that chooses to
privatize typically will have to forego tax-exempt financing, and the
privatizing firm will have to pay income taxes on the income generated
from the privatizing effort. While the actual numbers will vary
depending on specific circumstances, simulations suggest that the tax
penalty paid to privatize may be on the order of 30 percent of the
capital cost of the privatized facility.
KEYWORD(S): State and Local Government Finance General (3240)/National
Taxation, Revenue, and Subsidies (3230)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): Jeffrey L. Jordan
TITLE/TITRE: Melding Private and Public Interests in Water Rights
Markets: Discussion
SOURCE: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 25 (1, July
1993), 1993, p. 84-88.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Conservation and Pollution (7220)/Natural Resources General
(7210)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S):
TITLE/TITRE: Keep the water system (editorial).
SOURCE: New York Times (Late New York Edition) (July 28 1995), 1995, p.
A26.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, having failed to persuade City
Comptroller Alan Hevesi to approve the sale of New York City's water
system for an infusion of funds, now says that he will take Hevesi to
court. Giuliani should instead skip the battle and find alternative
resources for the budget so as to keep possession of this vast and
valuable asset.
KEYWORD(S): New York (N/Y/) Water supply/New York (N/Y/) Finance/New
York (N/Y/) Privatization Giuliani, Rudolph W/Hevesi, Alan New York
(N/Y/)/Water Board
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Sunita Kikeri ; John Nellis ; Mary Shirley
TITLE/TITRE: Privatization: The lessons of experience
SOURCE: Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1992, p. 86
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: Examines the experience of state-owned enterprises and their
privatization in developing and industrial countries. Reviews the
history and evidence of privatization, extracting themes and lessons.
Discusses objectives and strategy for privatization implementation, and
the recent experiences of privatization in Eastern Europe and Central
Asia. Bibliography; no index.
KEYWORD(S): Nonprofit Industries: Theory and Studies (6360)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Nadezhda Kosareva ; Raymond Struyk
TITLE/TITRE: Housing Privatization in the Russian Federation
SOURCE: Housing Policy Debate, 4 (1, 1993), 1993, p. 81-100.
FILE:
ABSTRACT: In July 1991, the Russian Federation passed legislation
permiting tenants of manicipal and departmental housing (owned by
enterprises or federal bodies) to purchase their units. This article
examines the antecedents of this legislation and gives a detailed
description of the law's provisions. It presents information on the
early experience with the actual implementation of the program in three
cities--Moscow, Ekaterinburg, and Novosibirsk from January to May 1992.
The final section of the article offers a critical assessment of the
privatization program. The overall conclusion is fairly pessimistic.
The housing privatization program--as implemented in the spring of
1992--was in real danger of not accomplishing its major objective of
transferring a substantial share of the stock to the population and
thereby jolting the housing sector into operating more on market
principles. Moreover, it may result in a distribution of housing assets
that is more inequitable than before.
KEYWORD(S): Economic Planning Policy (1136)/Economic Planning Theory
(1132)/Socialist and Communist Economic Systems (0520)/Centrally
Planned Economies Macroeconomic Theory (0272)/Centrally Planned
Economies Microeconomic Theory (0271)/Housing Economics including urban
and nonurban housing (9320)/Public Enterprises (6140)
GEOG. AREA: Russia
AUTHOR(S): Ole P. Kristensen
TITLE/TITRE: Public versus private provision of governmental services:
the case of Danish fire protection services.
SOURCE: Urban Studies, 20 (Feb. 1983), 1983, p. 1-9
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Contracting out Fire departments Denmark
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Kevin Lavery
TITLE/TITRE: The English contracting revolution (competitive bidding at
the local level).
SOURCE: Public Management, 77 (Aug. 1995), 1995, p. 20-4
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Contracts, Government Municipal services Contracting out
Local government Great Britain Local government United States
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S):
TITLE/TITRE: Let the landlords do it (business improvement districts
(BIDS) augment New York's services).
SOURCE: Economist, 323 (Apr. 25 1992), 1992, p. 23-4
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): New York (N/Y/) Municipal services Municipal services
Contracting out
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Norman Lewis
TITLE/TITRE: The Citizen's Charter and next steps: a new way of
governing?.
SOURCE: Political Quarterly, 64 (July/Sep. 1993), 1993, p. 316-26
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Public services Great Britain Political reform
Privatization Great Britain
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): David Lowery
TITLE/TITRE: The political incentives of government contracting.
SOURCE: Social Science Quarterly, 63 (Sep. 1982), 1982, p. 517-29
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Contracting out Social choice Public
goods
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): E. L. Lynk
TITLE/TITRE: Privatisation, Joint Production and the Comparative
Efficiencies of Private and Public Ownership: The UK Water Industry
Case
SOURCE: Fiscal Studies, 14 (2, May 1993), 1993, p. 98-116.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Public Enterprises (6140)/Energy (7230)/Industry Studies
Electrical, Gas, Communication, and Information Services
(6352)/Regulation of Public Utilities (6130)
GEOG. AREA: United-Kingdom
AUTHOR(S): Gary D. Lynne ; Phyllis Saarinen
TITLE/TITRE: Melding Private and Public Interests in Water Rights
Markets
SOURCE: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 25 (1, July
1993), 1993, p. 69-83.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: The debate over privatizing and water markets has moved back
and forth for decades between the "I" and the "We" perspectives. Rather
than either/or, a balanced "I&We" view of water institutions is needed.
West is meeting east in water law. Public interest needs must be
satisfied in appropriate decision forums, but marketing may prove a
social improvement when used as a supplement. Balancing an "I&We"
institution involves establishing an acceptable or tolerable level of
interference through judicious mixing of state, common and private
property regimes. Third-party effects are eliminated as mutual gain
arises in a variety of decision forums.
KEYWORD(S): Conservation and Pollution (7220)/Natural Resources General
(7210)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): Jeremy Main
TITLE/TITRE: When public services go private.
SOURCE: Fortune, 111 (May 27 1985), 1985, p. 92-6.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: Private firms are taking over work traditionally done by the
government. They are winning contracts not only to collect garbage but
to run airport towers, waste-water treatment plants, and fire
departments. The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal
Employees opposes this trend, but privatization has lowered costs,
often by more than 20 percent, and quality of service has not suffered.
The Grace Commission, although overenthusiastic, was correct to support
this trend. According to the commission, the government can save $11.2
billion over the next three years by privatizing its fleet of vehicles,
military commissary stores, Washington's Dulles and National airports,
and much of the work performed by the Coast Guard.
KEYWORD(S): Privatization
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Philippe Mao
TITLE/TITRE: Water with a French touch (Lyonnaise des Eaux).
SOURCE: Forbes, 154 (Sep. 12 1994), 1994, p. 212.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: Jerome Monod, the CEO of $17 billion-in-revenues Lyonnaise
des Eaux, is working to make the French conglomerate the world's leader
in water services. The company builds dams and purifies and distributes
water to the local citizenry. As part of its drive into the global
market, in the past two years, Lyonnaise des Eaux has won contracts to
provide drinking water for Guangzhou, China; Buenos Aires; and a large
part of Mexico City. However, the U.S. market, which is 86 percent
government-owned and -operated, has been difficult to enter. This is
beginning to change, as new federal legislation has placed heavy new
costs on local water companies during a period of lower federal and
state funding. As he tries to take advantage of this situation, Monod
has merged Lyonnaise des Eaux's General Waterworks into United Water
Resources, creating the second-largest private water utility in
America.
KEYWORD(S): Investments, French United States Lyonnaise des Eaux
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Vince McCullough
TITLE/TITRE: Pocket guide to the new City
SOURCE: The Economist Publications series, 1988, p. 121.
FILE:
ABSTRACT: Presents a brief description of the institutions,
instruments, activities, and people involved in the City of London.
Entries are arranged alphabetically and describe a range of items such
as accepting houses committee, alpha stocks, the Bourse, Coults and
Co., crisis management, insider trading, privatization,
Prudential-Bache, Lloyd's of London, the Rothschilds, the third market,
and a white knight. Entries describe the many new institutions that
reflect the structural changes taking place in the economy.
Descriptions are in simplified terminology, understandable by lay
people. McCullough has worked for The Economist for twelve years. No
index.
KEYWORD(S): Capital Markets General (3130)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): James C. McDavid
TITLE/TITRE: The Canadian experience with privatizing residential solid
waste collection services.
SOURCE: Public Administration Review (Washington, D.C.), 45 (Sep./Oct.
1985), 1985, p. 602-8
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Canada Refuse and refuse disposal Canada
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Robert A. McGuire ; Robert L. Ohsfeldt
TITLE/TITRE: The Impact of Taxes on the Privatization of Municipal
Services
SOURCE: Economics Letters, 45 (3, July 1994), 1994, p. 391-95.
FILE:
ABSTRACT: Municipal governments incur a cost of privatization through
taxes paid to other governments by private contractors producing
municipal services. Empirical analysis finds lower tax costs do not
increase privatization of school transportation.
KEYWORD(S): Public Enterprises (6140)/Intergovernmental Financial
Relationships (3250)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Michael Meacher
TITLE/TITRE: Market stalls (market testing public services has not
improved quality or lowered costs).
SOURCE: New Statesman & Society, 7 (Aug. 26 1994), 1994, p. 24
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Contracting out Great Britain Social
policy
GEOG. AREA: United Kingdom
AUTHOR(S): Kirsty Milne
TITLE/TITRE: The dustmen's contract (TUPE, Transfer of Undertakings
(Protection of Employment) Regulations and Eastbourne street cleaners).
SOURCE: New Statesman & Society, 6 (July 23 1993), 1993, p. 12-13
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Eastbourne (England) Sanitary affairs Sanitation workers
Great Britain Labor laws and legislation Great Britain Municipal
services Contracting out European Community Great Britain
GEOG. AREA: United Kingdom
AUTHOR(S): Robin G. Milne
TITLE/TITRE: Contractors' experience of compulsory competitive
tendering: a case study of contract cleaners in the NHS.
SOURCE: Public Administration, 71 (Autumn 1993), 1993, p. 301-21
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Contracts, Government Municipal services Contracting out
Cleaners (Persons) Great Britain Great Britain National Health Service
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Rowan Lerner ,. Allan Miranda
TITLE/TITRE: Bureaucracy, organizational redundancy, and the
privatization of public services.
SOURCE: Public Administration Review (Washington, D.C.), 55 (Mar./Apr.
1995), 1995, p. 193-200
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Contracting out Privatization United
States Public administration United States
GEOG. AREA: United States
AUTHOR(S): Rowan A. Miranda
TITLE/TITRE: Explaining the Privatization Decision among Local
Governments in the United States
SOURCE: Research in Urban Policy, 5, 1994, p. 231-274
FILE:
ABSTRACT: Data from a survey conducted by the International City
Management Assoc on a sample of 263 US cities are used to examine
variation in the adoption of alternative service delivery arrangements
(ASDAs), especially contracting out, within a political choice (PC)
framework. Multivariate analyses indicate that cities with a larger
municipal work force, greater demands for public jobs, & mayors with
longer tenure were less likely to privatize. Unionization is found to
lead to less contracting out. 6 Tables, 2 Figures, 92 References. D.
Schwartz (Copyright 1995, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights
reserved.)
KEYWORD(S): Delivery Systems (D204900)/United States of America
(D890700)/Cities (D129600)/Alternative Approaches (D026000)/Local
Government (D470700)/Privatization (D661600)/social
planning/policy/social policy & decision making sciences (7210)
GEOG. AREA: United States
AUTHOR(S): David R. Hirlinger, Michael W. England, Robert E. Morgan
TITLE/TITRE: The decision to contract out city services: a further
explanation.
SOURCE: Western Political Quarterly, 41 (June 1988), 1988, p. 363-72
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Contracting out Decision making in
public administration Country of Publication United States Language
English
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): David R. Hirlinger, Michael W. Morgan
TITLE/TITRE: Intergovernmental service contracts: a multivariate
explanation.
SOURCE: Urban Affairs Quarterly, 27 (Sep. 1991), 1991, p. 128-44
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Contracting out Local government United
States
GEOG. AREA: United States
AUTHOR(S): David R. England, Robert E. Morgan
TITLE/TITRE: The two faces of privatization.
SOURCE: Public Administration Review (Washington, D.C.), 48 (Nov./Dec.
1988), 1988, p. 979-87
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Privatization United States Municipal services Citizen
participation
GEOG. AREA: United States
AUTHOR(S):
TITLE/TITRE: Mr. Hevesi's timely warning (sale of water system;
editorial).
SOURCE: New York Times (Late New York Edition). (June 29 1995), 1995,
p. p. A20.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Council President
Peter Vallone made a sincere and forceful case that selling the city's
vast water system to another government entity was a risk-free step to
raise a billion dollars for much-needed capital improvements. City
Comptroller Alan Hevesi has raised questions about the transfer that
should be addressed, however. Hevesi and environmentalists warn that
selling the water system would weaken the city's ability to face
growing threats to the watershed from developers and pollution.
KEYWORD(S): New York (N/Y/) Water supply New York (N/Y/) Finance New
York (N/Y/) Privatization Hevesi, Alan New York (N/Y/) Water Board
GEOG. AREA: United States. New York
AUTHOR(S): Steven Lee Myers
TITLE/TITRE: Mayor blocked on bid to sell water system: comptroller
challenges Giuliani budget deal.
SOURCE: New York Times (Late New York Edition) (June 28 1995), 1995, p.
A1.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: In a sharp rebuke of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's budget
strategy, the city's Comptroller, Alan G. Hevesi, announced yesterday
that he will block a plan to sell New York City's water system to a
quasi-independent public agency. By blocking the sale, Hevesi appears
to have killed the city's plans to use $400 million in proceeds from
the sale to pay for a variety of construction projects this year.
KEYWORD(S): New York (N/Y/) Water supply New York (N/Y/) Finance New
York (N/Y/) Privatization Giuliani, Rudolph W/Hevesi, Alan New York
(N/Y/) Water Board
GEOG. AREA: United States. New York
AUTHOR(S):
TITLE/TITRE: Les nouveaux dustmen (French companies get contracts to
clean England's city streets and collect its rubbish).
SOURCE: Economist, 319 (June 22 1991), 1991, p. 56
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Sanitation Great Britain Municipal services Contracting out
GEOG. AREA: United Kingdom
AUTHOR(S): John O'Leary
TITLE/TITRE: Privatization 1995: A Comprehensive Report on
Privatization of Government Assets, Enterprises, and Public Services
SOURCE: Reason Foundation Annual Report on Privatization, 9, 1995, p.
52
FILE: CIRANO, Mono R42 S7
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S):
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): John O'Leary ; William D. Eggers
TITLE/TITRE: Privatization and Public Employees: Guidelines for Fair
Treatment
SOURCE: Reason Foundation How-to Guide, 9, 1993, p. 35
FILE: CIRANO, Mono R42 S7
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S):
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Laurence J. ,. Jr O'Toole
TITLE/TITRE: Goal Multiplicity in the Implementation Setting: Subtle
Impacts and the Case of Wastewater Treatment Privatization
SOURCE: Policy Studies Journal, 18 (1, fall 1989), 1989, p. 1-20
FILE:
ABSTRACT: Conceptualization of policy goal as a source of tension
between the top-down & bottom-up perspectives of implementation
research is examined through analysis of questionnaire data on public
wastewater treatment programs in five privatized cities & five matched
locales. Preliminary analysis suggests that privatization of treatment
facilities yielded better results than other alternatives when
evaluated in terms of removal of pollutants from wastewater & recycling
of clean effluent, two measures of success gauged by the standard
top-down research design, which omits evaluation of other policy goals,
eg, improved technical capacity at the local level, federal
encouragement of innovative technology, affirmative action & equal
employment opportunity, & local autonomy & accountability. A more
bottom-up research approach emphasizing goal multiplicity may provide a
clearer overall picture of program success. 25 References. D. Generoli
(Copyright 1992, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
KEYWORD(S): Treatment (D877800)/Wastes (D913200)/Pollution Control
(D644100)/Privatization (D661600)/Goals (D330900)/Program
Implementation (D668350)/Policy Implementation (D636500)/Policy Making
(D636600)/Water Supply (D913500)/environmental
interactions/environmental interactions (2656)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): David Parker
TITLE/TITRE: The 1988 Local Government Act and compulsory competitive
tendering.
SOURCE: Urban Studies, 27 (Oct. 1990), 1990, p. 653-68
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Local government Great Britain Municipal services
Contracting out
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Werner W. Pommerehne
TITLE/TITRE: Comment [Privatizing Municipal Services] [Creating New
Entrepreneurship by Privatizing Municipal Services].
SOURCE: New Opportunities for Entrepreneurship. Institut fur
Weltwirtschaft an der Universitat Kiel Symposium 1983, 1984, p. 70-81.
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Public Enterprises (6140)/State and Local Government
Finance General (3240)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Robert W. Poole
TITLE/TITRE: Objections to privatization.
SOURCE: Policy Review, 24 (Spring 1983), 1983, p. 105-19
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Contracting out
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Robert W. Jr Poole
TITLE/TITRE: Revitalizing State and Local Infrastructure: Empowering
Cities and States to Tap Private Capital and Rebuild America
SOURCE: Reason Foundation Policy Study, 190, 1995, p. 18
FILE: CIRANO, Mono R42 S7
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S):
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Robert W. Poole ; Philip E. ,. Jr Fixler
TITLE/TITRE: Privatization of public sector services in practice:
experience and potential.
SOURCE: Journal of Policy Analysis & Management ; Related
material:Discussion., 6 (Summer 1987), 1987, p. 612-25 ; 625-7
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services United States
GEOG. AREA: United States
AUTHOR(S): Hugo Priemus
TITLE/TITRE: How to Abolish Social Housing? The Dutch Case
SOURCE: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 19 (1,
March 1995), 1995, p. 145-155
FILE:
ABSTRACT: The significant housing sector in the Netherlands (41% of
total housing) has silently been condemned to extinction. The swift &
largely undebated changes are based on three pieces of legislation that
have laid the basis for the emergence of a strongly independent
municipal corporation sector with little control from the state. While
the Social Rented Sector Management Order (1993) gave more independence
for housing corporations to raise rents, the Dwelling-Linked Subsidies
Order (DSO), effective 1 Jan 1995, has eliminated generic subsidies in
favor of location-linked subsidies & has provided for the financial
privatization of the social rented sector. 6 Tables, 5 References. R.
Jaramillo (Copyright 1995, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights
reserved.)
KEYWORD(S): Housing Policy (D372000)/Netherlands (D555000)/Housing
Market (D371700)/Legislation (D454200)/Economic Sectors
(D240900)/Subsidies (D840000)/Government Policy (D333900)/policy,
planning, forecasting/policy sciences (2462)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S):
TITLE/TITRE: Privatization plan may save Indianapolis $12 million in
'94.
SOURCE: American City & County, 109 (May 1994), 1994, p. 66-7
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Indianapolis (Ind/) Municipal services Municipal services
Contracting out
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S):
TITLE/TITRE: Pssst: Want to buy a reservoir? (plan to sell city's
system to New York Water Board; editorial).
SOURCE: New York Times (Late New York Edition) (Apr. 29 1995), 1995, p.
22.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's plan to sell the
city's water system to a semi-independent agency is questionable. It
could be seen as an ingenious idea that lowers the cost of city debt,
but it could also be viewed as a budget gimmick that increases the
amount of debt the city would otherwise issue.
KEYWORD(S): New York (N/Y/) Water supply New York (N/Y/) Privatization
New York (N/Y/) Finance New York (N/Y/)/Water Board
GEOG. AREA: United States. New York
AUTHOR(S): Kambiz Et Al Raffiee
TITLE/TITRE: Cost Analysis of Water Utilities: A Goodness of Fit
Approach
SOURCE: Atlantic Economic Journal, 21 (3, September 1993), 1993, p.
18-29.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: The behavior of privately owned and publicly owned water
utilities is examined by calculating the percentage difference between
the observed cost and the optimum cost consistent with the Weak Axiom
of Cost Minimization for each individual water utility. It allows for a
comprehensive analysis of nearly optimizing behavior of economic units
as opposed to the conventional analysis of exact optimizing behavior.
The empirical results provide evidence that private water utilities are
more efficient than public public water utilities.
KEYWORD(S): Energy (7230)/Industry Studies Electrical, Gas,
Communication, and Information Services (6352)/Regulation of Public
Utilities (6130)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): Steve Randall
TITLE/TITRE: City Pride From 'Municipal Socialism' to 'Municipal
Capitalism'?
SOURCE: CSP' Critical Social Policy, 15 (1(43), summer 1995), 1995, p.
40-59
FILE:
ABSTRACT: Examines the shift on the part of formerly progressive local
authorities in GB from a municipal socialist to a municipal pride
stance. It is argued that this municipal pride approach to urban
regeneration capitulates to the shrunken horizons of the new marketized
contract culture, whereby social service provision is separated from
local authority delivery & is effectively privatized, creating a new &
private relationship between purchaser & provider. This forfeits the
principle of the universality of welfare provision & amounts to a
betrayal by Labour authorities of those constituents who cannot wield
the power that comes with being a purchasing customer. An effort is
made to reappropriate the terms of this new contracting environment &
turn it against itself, in the process reempowering those ordinarily
disempowered by the unbridled workings of the market. 1 Figure. Adapted
from the source document. (Copyright 1995, Sociological Abstracts,
Inc., all rights reserved.)
KEYWORD(S): Great Britain (D337800)/Local Government (D470700)/Urban
Development (D892800)/Urban Renewal (D894600)/Social Services
(D800100)/Delivery Systems (D204900)/Privatization (D661600)/urban
sociology/urban sociology (1218)
GEOG. AREA: United Kingdom
AUTHOR(S): Ellen Rosell
TITLE/TITRE: The chickens can come home to roost: the anatomy of a
local infrastructure crisis.
SOURCE: Urban Affairs Quarterly, 30 (Dec. 1984), 1994, p. 298-306
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Infrastructure (Economics) United States Municipal services
Contracting out Palm Bay (Brevard County, Fla/) Municipal services
General Development Corp/
GEOG. AREA: United States. Florida
AUTHOR(S): Clifford S. (Reviewer) Russell
TITLE/TITRE: Review of: Economics of water resources: From regulation
to privatization
SOURCE: Journal of Economic Literature, 33 (1, March 1995), 1995, p.
284-285.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: The main title of this book is a good guide to its large
ambition. The authors really do intend to range across the entire field
of water resource economics and, indeed, to conduct excursions into
several related problem areas of environmental economics more
generally. They do not, of course, intend to produce merely a catalog
of analytical problems and techniques. Their organizing messages seem
to me to be the following: - Traditional U.S. water policy has failed
to keep pace with changing times and especially with changing economic
realities. Its emphasis on government-decided supply enhancement; its
penchant for low, politically determined prices; and its unchanging
tradition of supplying a single (potable) quality of water throughout
municipal systems, are facets of that policy singled out for special
criticism. - Analysis of alternative water policies should in general
integrate quantity and quality (both ambient and delivered) dimensions.
- Again, in general, water supply should be in the hands of private
firms which would bid for franchises to be the sellers of
quality-differentiated water that would be delivered through pipe
networks owned by separate companies that would themselves be regulated
analogously to local phone companies. Backing up these messages is a
substantial array of formal analytical developments. These exercises
are roughly cumulative in that they tend to share the same notational
conventions, to begin with the very simplest materials--the derivation
of demand and supply functions for water from the usual constrained
optimization problems--and to progress through partial and general
equilibrium settings for the water supply industry on to the more
complex problems implied by the messages just summarized. To list all
the formal developments would more than exhaust the space limitations
of this review, but the following examples will give the flavor: -
Optimal pollution control models allowing examination of alternative
policy instruments for managing ambient water quality. - A model of
water withdrawal prices (for off-stream uses) in the presence of
ambient pollution that at least in part reflects the quality
degradation caused by those uses. (This is the place where the
quantity/quality linkage is made formally most explicit.) - Models for
the design of single and multiple channel pipe networks (for given
quantities to be delivered). - First and second best rules for marginal
cost pricing in the presence of economies of scale. Along the way they
include a clear and useful derivation of the transformation relation
between the classic pollutant, biochemical oxygen demand, and the key
ambient quality indicator, dissolved oxygen. So--is the authors'
ambition successfully realized? Not completely, certainly. - Yes, if
the test is whether they provide an introduction to, and at least some
tools for analyzing, the wide range of problems that together define
water resource economics. Some credit must also be given for their
excursions into environmental economics via the ambient water quality
management material. - Perhaps, if the test is their case for
privatization. At least they suggest mechanisms for getting around the
natural monopoly impediment. They also argue from precedent--the
privatization of the water authorities in the U.K.--and analogy-- the
competition in long distance service using local monopoly networks.
They do not however, discuss the problems raised by the public good
aspects of system reliability and of quality dimensions not subject to
private choice via multichannel delivery. - No, if the test is whether
they prepare the reader to deal with the most interesting and difficult
problems in the field. For example, just in the matter of water supply
problems, they hardly even hint at the analytical, not to say
practical, difficulties raised by: - uncertain natural
events--especially drought--and its implications for price and capacity
expansion decisions. - the failure of capacity expansion options to
conform to the neat assumptions of infinite divisibility implied by
standard cost functions. (That is, how do you define marginal cost
prices when there are only a few possible expansion options of
predetermined size?) - the nexus between pricing, peak-load pricing and
capacity expansion. In general, their approach is, in any case,
strictly formal with no guidance for operationalizing any of the
models. - No, if the test is their case for the necessity of
integrating quality and quantity dimensions in water planning. Only in
one place do they tackle this integration of ambient quality, water
supply quality, and the loop through use via return flow pollution. In
that discussion and modeling exercise, the problem that would face the
sort of river basin authority they later advocate is severely
simplified, in particular to get rid of spatial features that so
complicate seeking static efficiency in actual settings. The question
left hanging, it seems to me, is whether the welfare gains from finding
optimal shadow prices for quality-differentiated withdrawals are worth
the difficulty and expense of producing and solving the necessary
regional models. - No, if the test is the contribution of their essays
on environmental policy instruments. These shortcomings are partly the
result of their concentration on static efficiency, albeit in a
long-run context, and their lack of interest in such other important,
but less tractable, dimensions as dynamic incentive effects and
flexibility in the face of exogenous change. But it is also partly a
result of their surprisingly dated references, concern and arguments. A
substantial portion of their environmental policy source material is
drawn from the 1970s and 1980s, leaving them largely, if not entirely,
without the insights generated by almost a decade and a half of
intensive activity at both the theoretical and applied level. Given the
above, who could benefit from this book? Clever students with some
command of standard micro models who would like to broaden their
horizons and be introduced to a challenging applied field. Anyone who
works in water resource economics and occasionally needs a jump start
in thinking about pricing, network design, interbasin transfer, or
effluent management models. Water resource engineers who want to
understand why the economists they deal with say the things they do.
KEYWORD(S): Conservation and Pollution (7220)/Natural Resources General
(7210)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): George Sanderlin
TITLE/TITRE: Waste contracting a result of evolution.
SOURCE: American City & County, 109 (Nov. 1994), 1994, p. 16
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Contracting out Refuse collection
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Elliott D. Sclar
TITLE/TITRE: Public service privatization: ideology or economics?.
SOURCE: Dissent, 41 (Summer 1994), 1994, p. 329-36
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Privatization United States Municipal services Contracting
out
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): David Seader
TITLE/TITRE: Cities wrestle for the best deal.
SOURCE: American City & County, 109 (May 1994), 1994, p. 16
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Contracting out
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): David Seader
TITLE/TITRE: Privatization and America's cities.
SOURCE: Public Management, 68 (Dec. 1986), 1986, p. 6-9
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Privatization United States Human services Administration
Contracts, Government Municipal services United States
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): James H. Seroka
TITLE/TITRE: Local Public Employee Unionization: Trends and
Implications for the Future
SOURCE: Policy Studies Journal, 8 (3, winter 1979), 1979, p. 430-437
FILE:
ABSTRACT: Reviewed are important structural changes now occurring in
local government which are likely to have a direct impact on labor
relations for municipal & county governments. These include fiscal,
managerial, & socioeconomic changes. The implications of such changes
for multilateral bargaining, union growth, contracting out,
intermunicipal labor cooperation, legitimacy for public employee
unionization, popular support, & changes in the legal status of
organized municipal employees are examined. The overall impact of these
trends on such events as work stoppages & disruptions of city service
is discussed. It appears likely that the government sector will face
continued labor conflicts.
KEYWORD(S): Local, Locals, Localism, Locality, Localization
(253575)/Govern, Governing, Government, Governmental, Governments
(196500)/Public (362970)/Employee, Employees (154200)/Unionized,
Unionization (476500)/social welfare/social case work/community
organization (6125)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Keith Fenwick ,. John Foreman, Anne Shaw
TITLE/TITRE: Compulsory competitive tendering for local government
services: the experiences of local authorities in the North of England
1988 1992.
SOURCE: Public Administration, 72 (Summer 1994), 1994, p. 201-17
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Local government England Contracts, Government Municipal
services Contracting out
GEOG. AREA: United Kingdom
AUTHOR(S): Jeffrey Simpson
TITLE/TITRE: Remorseless Arithmetic: The Citizen and the State in
Canada
SOURCE: Queen's Quarterly, 101 (4, winter 1994), 1994, p. 781-799
FILE:
ABSTRACT: The budget deficit of the Canadian federal government is
criticized as a problem with potentially severe consequences for
Canadian federalism. The 1970s expansion of services & regional
development plans was based on the erroneous assumption that
1960s-level economic growth would continue. The oil crisis of 1973 &
"stagflation" helped put the budget into deficit, where it has remained
since 1974. Conservative government tax increases in the 1980s resulted
in the current situation of "tax fatigue," which makes it difficult to
decrease the deficit through further tax increases. The deficit is now
the major problem for all politicians & contributes to antipolitical
sentiments. The problem is sifting down to the provincial & municipal
levels. The deficit crisis may lead to the loss or privatization of
services, fewer public sector jobs, increased taxes, & a restructuring
of federalism that gives more jurisdiction to the provinces. This,
combined with the threatened succession of Quebec, would weaken what is
already the second weakest federation in the world & contribute to a
geographically divided Canada. Inequality of justice, opportunity, &
services could follow. E. Blackwell (Copyright 1995, Sociological
Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
KEYWORD(S): Canada (D106200)/Federal Government (D294600)/Budgets
(D098100)/Public Debt (D680100)/Politics (D643500)/Economic Problems
(D240600)/State Society Relationship (D831300)/political
sociology/interactions/sociology of political systems, politics, &
power (0925)
GEOG. AREA: Canada
AUTHOR(S):
TITLE/TITRE: Sold: (selling utilities and other services).
SOURCE: Economist, 336 (Aug. 19 1995), 1995, p. 25-6
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services United States Privatization United
States
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Ralph L. Stanley
TITLE/TITRE: Privatization and the Challenge of Urban Mobility
SOURCE: Private innovations in public transit. AEI Studies series, no.
468, 1988, p. 11-15.
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Urban Transportation Economics (9330)/Economics of
Regulation (6190)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): Alex J. [Reviewer] Stanwick
TITLE/TITRE: Contracting municipal services; a guide for purchase from
the private sector [Book Review]. Wiley, 1984. ISBN: 0 471 87854 5.
SOURCE: Public Management, 68 (Dec. 1986), 1986, p. 29
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S):
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Robert M. Stein
TITLE/TITRE: The budgetary effects of municipal service contracting: a
principal agent explanation.
SOURCE: American Journal of Political Science, 34 (May 1990), 1990, p.
471-502
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Contracting out Municipal finance United
States Agency (Economics)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Holly June Stiefel
TITLE/TITRE: Municipal Wastewater Treatment: Privatization and
Compliance
SOURCE: Reason Foundation Policy Study, 175, 1994, p. 27
FILE: CIRANO, Mono R42 S7
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S):
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Richard E. Stren
TITLE/TITRE: Helping African Cities
SOURCE: Public Administration and Development, 11 (3, May-June 1991),
1991, p. 275-279
FILE:
ABSTRACT: In the past, service delivery in African cities has been the
responsibility of the central government or related agencies. However,
under the stress of increasing population & the inadequacy of formal
urban services, privatization of services has occurred, particularly in
the areas of transportation, waste removal, & water supply.
Privatization has brought problems of risk management & inadequate,
inequitable, or excessively expensive services, which adversely impacts
the low-income population to the greatest degree. It is argued that
community participation in local development projects holds promise for
ameliorating these conditions. Policymakers are urged to acknowledge
existing community & associational groups, coordinate action between
local, private, & governmental groups, & involve private & voluntary
sectors in the financing & managing of local services.
KEYWORD(S): Privatization (D661600)/Cities (D129600)/Sub Saharan Africa
(D839100)/Social Services (D800100)/Public Sector Private Sector
Relations (D682900)/social development/rural development (8355)
GEOG. AREA: Africa
AUTHOR(S): Harold J. Sullivan
TITLE/TITRE: Privatization of public services: a growing threat to
constitutional rights.
SOURCE: Public Administration Review (Washington, D.C.), 47 (Nov./Dec.
1987), 1987, p. 461-7
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Privatization United States Municipal services United
States Civil rights United States United States Supreme Court Decisions
GEOG. AREA: United States
AUTHOR(S): Chwee Huat Tan
TITLE/TITRE: Public Entrprises and Privatization: The Experience of
Singapore
SOURCE: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 63 (1, 1992), 1992,
p. 119-25.
FILE:
ABSTRACT: During the past two decades, the Singapore economy has
performed remarkably well. Its achievement has often been cited as an
economic miracle for a 600-square kilometer city nation without
resources except its three million inhabitants. Public enterprises have
contributed much to this achievement. They have been so successful in
competing with the private sector that there have been some criticisms
against the dominance of government in business. Several major
government companies have been privatized and listed on the local stock
exchange.
KEYWORD(S): Public Enterprises (6140)
GEOG. AREA: Singapore
AUTHOR(S): Ronald K. Teeples ; David Glyer
TITLE/TITRE: Cost of Water Delivery Systems: Specification and
Ownership Effects
SOURCE: Review of Economics and Statistics, 69 (3, August 1987), 1987,
p. 399-408.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: Three cost models of water delivery systems are replicated as
alternative specifications of a general form. A dual cost function
methodology is followed, usin g firm-specific data and ownership
proxies, to trace the effects that numerous technical constraints and
variable specifications have on t he relative efficiency of firms by
ownership type. Results show that apparent overall efficiency
differences reduce to insignificance as s pecification improves. This
partly explains why past studies of overa ll efficiency of ownership
forms have yielded mixed, and in some inst ances, unreliable results.
The partial efficiency results point to fu ture public-private research
methods.
KEYWORD(S): Natural Resources General (7210)/Construction, Analysis,
and Use of Econometric Models (2120)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): The Reason Foundation
TITLE/TITRE: State Privatization Handbook
SOURCE: , 1993
FILE: CIRANO, Mono R42 S7
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S):
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): John E. Thorson
TITLE/TITRE: Water Marketing in Big Sky Country: An Interim Assessment
SOURCE: Natural Resources Journal, 29 (2, Spring 1989), 1989, p.
479-88.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: Water marketing has received the most attention and is most
active in the Southwest. Yet, in the Northern Rockies, Montana is
experimenting with methods to improve the transferability and
marketability of water. The 1985 Montana Legislature enacted major
legislation that provides the framework for the marketing of water by
private water users, the state, and Indian tribes. Water marketing
pursuant to the legislation has been hampered by a depressed regional
economy and legal uncertainties. In this review of water marketing in
the "Big Sky" state, Montana lawyer John Thorson provides an assessment
of the difficulties of modifying the West's water law and institutions.
KEYWORD(S): Natural Resources General (7210)/Economics of Law and Crime
(9160)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): Ivan Turok
TITLE/TITRE: Public investment and privatisation in the new towns: a
financial assessment of Bracknell.
SOURCE: Environment & Planning A., 22 (Oct. 1990), 1990, p. 1323-36
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Cities and towns Great Britain Urban policy Great Britain
Privatization Great Britain Public investments Great Britain
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Roland Vaubel
TITLE/TITRE: Comment [Privatizing Municipal Services] [Creating New
Entrepreneurship by Privatizing Municipal Services].
SOURCE: New Opportunities for Entrepreneurship. Institut fur
Weltwirtschaft an der Universitat Kiel Symposium 1983, 1984, p. 82-86.
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Public Enterprises (6140)/State and Local Government
Finance General (3240)
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Caspar W. Weinberger
TITLE/TITRE: Two Ways To Help Los Angeles And The Rest Of U. S.
SOURCE: Forbes, 149 (June 8 1992), 1992, p. 35.
FILE: CIRANO, filière "Impartition"
ABSTRACT: Privatization and worker training are needed to help Los
Angeles. The city requires large infusions of cash to repair the more
than $750 million lost to senseless violence. Simply raising taxes or
demanding more federal grants would be 2 of the worst moves that could
be made. A better solution to get money to Los Angeles and other cities
is privatization. The selling of many of the city's assets, such as the
4 airports, the water systems, and the power companies, would provide
quick cash and generate higher tax revenues. Los Angeles also needs
skilled manpower to help train and encourage the tens of thousands of
welfare recipients who lack decent jobs or acceptable housing. The
hundreds of thousands of service men and women who are expected to lose
their jobs in the military could use their skills to help provide job
training and encouragement for those in need.
KEYWORD(S): United States Urban policy Los Angeles (Calif/) Riots, 1992
Los Angeles (Calif/) Privatization United States Armed Forces Civic
action
GEOG. AREA: United States. Los Angeles
AUTHOR(S): Robert H. Wessel
TITLE/TITRE: Privatization in the United States
SOURCE: Business Economics, 30 (4, October 1995), 1995, p. 45-50.
FILE:
ABSTRACT: Privatization has a great future in the United States.
Examples in local communications are waste and water management,
housing and other municipal services, schools, and hospitals. On the
national level, the U.S. Post Office is a potential candidate.
Privatization offers attractive business opportunities, but it should
be justified on the grounds of efficiency and productivity rather than
become a fad to solve business and governmental problems.
KEYWORD(S): Public Enterprises (6140)
GEOG. AREA: United-States
AUTHOR(S): Wendell TI :. Competition: A. Privatization Strategy
(Charlotte, NorthCarolina'S, Services) White
TITLE/TITRE:
SOURCE: American City & County, 109 (Feb. 1994), 1994, p. 16
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Charlotte (N/C/) Municipal services Privatization United
States Municipal services Contracting out
GEOG. AREA:
AUTHOR(S): Jennifer R. Geiger, Robert K. Wolch
TITLE/TITRE: Urban restructuring and the not for profit sector.
SOURCE: Economic Geography, 62 (Jan. 1986), 1986, p. 3-18
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Los Angeles (Calif/) Economic geography Corporations,
Nonprofit Finance Municipal services Contracting out Service industries
United States Employment United States
GEOG. AREA: United States. Los Angeles
AUTHOR(S): Edward M. Yager
TITLE/TITRE: An organizational perspective on municipal contracting
decisions.
SOURCE: National Civic Review, 83 (Winter/Spring 1994), 1994, p. 73-7
FILE:
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORD(S): Municipal services Contracting out
GEOG. AREA: