Macro Outsourcing: Evaluating Government Reliance on the Private Sector

Potter, Rachel Augustine

doi:10.1086/716295

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“…For example, this includes agencies that take on an active policy-making role, e.g., the U.S. State Department. Moreover, stronger public sector unions have been found to diminish government outsourcing and likely provide enhanced employee benefits (Potter 2022), which may make it more attractive to remain at an agency. Conversely, the value of the outside option could be enhanced by the displeasure of working in an environment under dis- Note: Initial mission capacity versus outside option.…”

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Reversals of Capacity: Norms, Culture, and Institutional Disruption

Goldstein

2024

The Journal of Politics

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In recent years, leaders in a number of nations have undermined their public sector's capacity to deliver on its core goals. To understand this interference, it is necessary to examine the formal and informal organizational dynamics at play within bureaucracies. Considering a widelyapplicable generalized organization, a formal model outlines how a leader may augment the career incentives of supervisors and lower-level workers, which shifts the alignment of policy with an organization's central mission. While hierarchy may amplify disruption, organizational culture can coalesce as a norm facilitating resistance to extreme shifts, thereby stabilizing long-term mission-compliance. Yet, should disruption lead to an exodus of mission-driven employees, durable reversals of an organization's capacity to fulfill its aims may ensue. The model highlights three trajectories disrupted organizations follow: temporary reversal, erosion, and resistance. Implications are considered for public sector institutions and international organizations as well as for the study of bureaucratic and state capacities.

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confidence: 99%