Graeme A. Hodge, Carsten Greve and Eoin Reeves bring together expert authors to explore 50 years of research and analysis in the complex field of privatisation. The Research Handbook highlights current issues and challenges in privatisation through relevant contemporary examples, to further our understanding of this economic concept and how it is shaping global policies.
Acknowledging the ongoing discussions surrounding the performance of both the public and private sectors, this Research Handbook explores the evidence and controversy within ‘traditional privatisation’ research and addresses emerging conversations within the privatisation debate. The Research Handbook tackles fundamental conceptual and definitional issues, frames privatisation within a broader set of ideas about the control of activities in the public realm by private actors and explores new privatisation battles. Contemporary areas covered range from entire health care systems, housing, urban planning and finance to areas such as the governance of the internet, the role of global private foundations and space exploration. Overall, this Research Handbook concludes that the topic of privatisation, and what it means for citizens in a democracy, is now more important and relevant than ever.
Providing a balanced overview of privatisation policy debates, this Research Handbook is essential reading for students and scholars of economic regulation and governance, public and private sector economics and public administration and management. Public and private policy makers will also find the insights presented here beneficial.
Contents
Preface and acknowledgements xi
PART I INTRODUCTION: DEFINITIONS, CONCEPTS, AND CONTEXT
1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Privatisation 2
Graeme A. Hodge, Carsten Greve and Eoin Reeves
2 Regulatory capitalism, privatisation, and governing 15
Graeme A. Hodge and Carsten Greve
3 The long history of privatisation: a short summary 41
Tony Bovaird
PART II ENTERPRISE SALES AND CONTRACTING OUT PUBLIC SECTOR SERVICES
4 Enterprise sales: experience and ideas in Western liberal countries 58
Harriet Gray
5 Enterprise sales: paradoxes of transformational privatisation 89
Eva Voszka
6 Governing with contracts: have we entered the era of the outsourced state? 113
Graeme A. Hodge and David Van Slyke
7 Do state-owned enterprises behave like public or private entities when they go abroad? 140
Judith Clifton and Daniel Díaz-Fuentes
8 McKinseyfication of government 158
Matti Ylönen and Hanna Kuusela
PART III PRIVATISATION: AN ENDURING INFLUENCE
9 Privatisation and health care 174
Hal Swerissen and Stephen Duckett
10 Public and private values: a continuing story 193
Gene A. Brewer
11 A century of housing privatisation: the case of Ireland 213
Eoin O’Sullivan, Dónal Palcic and Eoin Reeves
12 The privatisation of Urban Planning: smarter cities? 229
Yinnon Geva and Matti Siemiatycki
PART IV CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC POLICY CHALLENGES
13 The privatisation of finance: can private finance save the world? 246
Stewart Smyth and Anne Stafford
14 Governing the already privatised internet? 267
Joshua Yuvaraj
15 Privatisation, commodification, and the public sphere 303
Henry Silke, Ciara Graham and Kathryn Hayes
16 The privatisation of sport 320
Eric Windholz
17 The potentials for government-foundation partnerships to address public sector challenges in the twenty-first century 337
Eric Boyer and Hyunrang Han
18 The privatisation of space? 357
Nicolas Peter and Douglas K. R. Robinson
19 The (alleged) rise of reverse privatisation: causes, effects, and implications for public service delivery 375
Bart Voorn and Ina Radtke
PART V CONCLUSIONS
20 The promise and perils of privatisation: making sense of it all 390
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Index 403
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