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Sharing Power - Public Governance and Private Markets (Paperback, New edition)
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Sharing Power - Public Governance and Private Markets (Paperback, New edition)
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"In the flush of enthusiasm to make government work better,
reformers from both left and right have urged government to turn as
many functions as possible over to the private sector and to allow
market competition instill efficiency and choice. In fact,
government has been doing just this for years: every major policy
initiative launched since World War II has been managed by
public-private partnerships. Yet such privatization has not solved
government's problems. While there have been some positive results,
thee has been far less success than advocates of market competition
have promised. In a searching examination of why the ""competition
prescription"" has not worked well, Donald F. Kettl finds that
government has largely been a poor judge of private markets.
Because government rarely operates in truly competitive markets
contracting out has not so much solved the problems of
inefficiency, but has aggravated them. Government has often not
proved to be an intelligent consumer of the goods and services it
has purchased. Kettl provides specific recommendations as to how
government can become a ""smart buyer,"" knowing what it wants and
judging better what it has bought. Through detailed case studies,
Kettl shows that as market imperfections increase, so do problems
in governance and management. He examines the A-76 program for
buying goods and services, the FTS-2000 telecommunications system,
the Superfund program, the Department of Energy's production of
nuclear weapons, and contracting out by state and local
governments. He argues that government must be more aggressive in
managing contracts if it is to build successful partnerships with
outside contractors. Kettl maintains that the answer is not more
government, but a smarter one, which requires strong political
leadership to refocus the bureaucracy's mission and to change the
bureaucratic culture. "
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