Contracting Out Government Services: Privatization at the Millenium

Johnston, Van R.; Seidenstat, Paul

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“…Focusing on cost savings and overruns-the outcome that has received the most scrutiny in the literature-some studies find that competitive contracting results in cost savings (Dijkgraaf & Gradus, 2003;Hakim & Blackstone, 2013;Ivacko & Horner, 2014;Johnston & Seidenstat, 2007), while others find that contracting does not deliver cost savings , generates diminishing cost efficiencies over time (Dijkgraaf & Gradus, 2008), or leads to increased costs (Thompson, 2011). Making sense of these findings is complicated by variations across studies in terms of national context, level of government (i.e., local, regional, national), product (e.g., prison management, refuse collection, water treatment), and cost components (e.g., current payouts from contracting vs. total costs over time).…”

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Impact of Product Characteristics and Market Conditions on Contract Type: Use of Fixed-Price Versus Cost-Reimbursement Contracts in the U.S. Department of Defense

Kim

Roberts

Brown

2016

Public Performance & Management Review

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ABSTRACT:Transaction cost economics is used to produce a conceptual framework that helps explain public-sector contract decisions. When a product is easy to specify, easy to produce, and there is a thick market of buyers and sellers, fixed-price contracts are more likely; when a product is difficult to produce, difficult to specify, and the market has few buyers and sellers, costreimbursement contracts are more likely. These arguments were tested with five years of data (FY 2004(FY -2008

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Impact of Product Characteristics and Market Conditions on Contract Type: Use of Fixed-Price Versus Cost-Reimbursement Contracts in the U.S. Department of Defense

Kim

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Brown

2016

Public Performance & Management Review

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“…Private financing has been used in large municipal works such as the Beijing Line 5 Subway and Hangzhou Bay Bridge. By allowing “much greater involvement in the design and oversight of production by the public agency,” contracting dominates in both countries (Johnston and Seidenstat 2007, 235).…”

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Managing Collaborative Service Delivery: Comparing China and the United States

Jing

Savas

2009

Public Administration Review

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Successful adoption of collaborative service delivery requires that governments develop better capacity to handle potential pitfalls. In this essay, Yijia Jing of Fudan University and E. S. Savas of the City University of New York provide a framework that compares and contrasts the management practices in China and America. Both nations favor collaborative service delivery and engage in it extensively. Can China’s state‐affiliated strategy and the United States’ competition‐oriented strategy both work effectively? Such distinct systems, embedded in vastly different socioeconomic and political institutional environments decisively influence the effectiveness of collaborative service delivery management in the two countries.

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“…In park and recreation management, Crompton (1998) identified four factors stimulating the growing interest in privatization: a shortage of tax funds, political thinking in conservative and liberal ideologies, a recognition of the inefficiencies associated with monopolistic service delivery, and an awareness of the distinction between facilitators and service providers. In this context, privatization is expected to promote efficiency and responsiveness to changing public preference by the introduction of competition into the marketplace (Johnston & Seidenstat, 2007;LeRoy, 2005). However, there has been criticism of privatization due to preferential treatment of special interest parties and uncertainty in non-profit functions, such as the provision of equitable services and environmental conservation, because private contractors require profit (More, 2005;Wade, 2005).…”

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Effectiveness and Disadvantages of Designated Administration in City Parks through Joint Ventures

Imanishi

Nakamura

2019

IRSPSD International

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The administrator of a city park must respond to various needs pertaining to parks as a provider of social and ecological services for city sustainability, through both profitable and non-profitable services. Especially for a large city park, it is difficult to cover all requirements through a single administrative party. Thus, a joint venture (JV) constituting multiple parties is one promising way to administer a large city park. This study aims to clarify the effectiveness and tasks of a JV in the designated administration of city parks. The results of questionnaires received from 69 designated administrators of large city parks (43.7% cover rate in study targets) indicated that JVs tended to actively seek new relationships with parties that have never interacted before to realize better park administration. The merits of constituting a JV included complementing limited know-how of park administration and accumulating new know-how in constituent parties. On the other hand, some disadvantages were highlighted, such as an insufficient number of new projects created through collaboration and vertically divided administration due to role sharing. To cope with these problems, better communication among constituent parties and the establishment of a collaborative environment are necessary.

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Contracting Out Government Services: Privatization at the Millenium

Cited by 23 publications

References 2 publications

Impact of Product Characteristics and Market Conditions on Contract Type: Use of Fixed-Price Versus Cost-Reimbursement Contracts in the U.S. Department of Defense

Impact of Product Characteristics and Market Conditions on Contract Type: Use of Fixed-Price Versus Cost-Reimbursement Contracts in the U.S. Department of Defense

Managing Collaborative Service Delivery: Comparing China and the United States

Effectiveness and Disadvantages of Designated Administration in City Parks through Joint Ventures

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