SYSTEM AND PROCESS IN CAPITAL‐INTENSIVE PRIVATIZATION: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
作者:
John G. Heilman,
Gerald W. Johnson,
期刊:
Review of Policy Research
(WILEY Available online 1989)
卷期:
Volume 8,
issue 3
页码: 549-572
ISSN:1541-132X
年代: 1989
DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1989.tb00979.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Capital‐intensive privatization (CIP) is an option for infrastructure project development. Advocates claim that CIP generates cost savings through efficiencies inherent in the coordinated design, construction, and operation of facilities. The present paper assesses these claims in the field of municipal wastewater treatment facilities (WIWs). It presents case‐study results and aggregate data on seven of the first privatized WIWs, and on seven comparable grant‐funded facilities. The analysis relies on the concepts of system and process. It concludes that CIP changes the system of players and the processes through which they interact. In doing so, CIP generates efficiencies of time and cost in project design and construction. It also may change accountability mechanisms, trade efficiency off against accountability, and raise issues of compatibility with the nature of the state. These matters bear directly on the current debates over tax and budget policy generated by increased demands for services, limited resources, and deficit reduction man
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