Sharing Power Public Governance and Private Markets

by Kettl, Donald F.

• ISBN13: 9780815749073
• ISBN10: 0815749074
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-05-01
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

The Competition Prescription	1	(20)
The Hidden Growth of Public-Private Partnerships	6	(8)
Private Markets	14	(3)
Public Interests	17	(3)
The Myth of the Self-Governing Market	20	(1)
Government and Markets	21	(20)
The Contracting Relationship	22	(7)
Different Markets, Different Problems	29	(8)
Sharing Power	37	(4)
The A-76 Program: Logistics and Libraries	41	(26)
Devising a Competitive Process	43	(3)
The Fruits of Competition	46	(12)
Contracting Out and Government Employees	58	(4)
The Government as Buyer	62	(5)
The FTS-2000 System: Federal Telecommunications	67	(32)
The Problem of Competition	68	(4)
Competition in Contracting	72	(13)
Administering the Contract	85	(9)
Managing Market Competition	94	(5)
Superfund: Red Ice and Purple Dogs	99	(30)
Negotiating Market Behavior	101	(4)
Controlling the Market	105	(11)
Program Oversight	116	(6)
Agency Cultures	122	(4)
An Imperfect Marketplace	126	(3)
Nuclear Weapons Production: Bombs and Bomb Makers	129	(26)
Trouble at Rocky Flats	134	(12)
Changing the Bureaucratic Culture	146	(6)
The Intelligence of Government	152	(3)
Contracting Out in State and Local Governments	155	(24)
The Evidence on State and Local Contracting	157	(8)
Contracting Out for Social Services	165	(10)
Accountability in Service Networks	175	(4)
The Smart-Buyer Problem	179	(20)
The Government as Smart Buyer	180	(2)
Mutual Dependence	182	(11)
Management Issues for Contracting	193	(6)
Managing Versus Governing	199	(14)
Coping with Uncertainty	202	(9)
Governing through Leadership	211	(2)
Index	213