Market forces and private sector processes in government policy: The job training partnership act
作者:
Thomas R. Bailey,
期刊:
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
(WILEY Available online 1988)
卷期:
Volume 7,
issue 2
页码: 300-315
ISSN:0276-8739
年代: 1988
DOI:10.2307/3323830
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThis article examines those provisions of the Job Training Partnership Act designed to introduce the presumed efficiency of marketlike forces and incentives into federal employment and training programs. First, the JTPA replaced the administrative system used in earlier training programs (which emphasized detailed federal control and monitoring of the programs at the local level) with a system that, in effect, set a price for a prescribed level of performance and reduced oversight of the training process. Second, the Act gave people in private business some control over programs at the local level. According to available data, JTPA program performance is no different in local areas with a strong private‐sector involvement than in areas where that involvement is weak and passive. The performance standards have had an effect, although the relationship between the standards and the goals of the JTPA is ambiguous at best. The article outlines the limitations of a market‐oriented system for the administration of public pol
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