Privatization and Its Alternatives

by William T. Gormley Jr.

Book Overview

Privatization--the transfer of responsibility for public services from the public to the private sector--currently evokes intense interest from policy makers. To its advocates, privatization conjures up visions of a lean, streamlined public sector reliant upon the private marketplace for the delivery of public services. To opponents, it conjures up visions of a beleaguered government bureaucracy ceding vital public services to unreliable entrepreneurs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299117049
• ISBN13: 9780299117047
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"