摘要:

Because corrections is a multibillion dollar growth industry it is attractive to profitmaking firms. The issue is not whether private firms should b e involved in corrections, for they already are; the issue i s how much Involvement should there b e and in what areas. The principal argument used in favor of private involvement is that they will be more efficient than public agencies. But, while this may well be true, the problem is, what impact will this have on corrections policy? Will it increase the move toward retribution and away from rehabilitation? Existing private involvement in corrections has been primarily in the direction of finding workable alternatives to prisons. Private profitmaking firms may take us in the opposite direction. A number of other issues and problems of privatization also are discussed.

ISSN:1541-132X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1986.tb00433.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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The promoters of privatization promise a lot, most especially cost savings. Upon what are these promises based and t o what degree is actual perfor mance consonant with them? This article investigates this question by first reviewing the privatization literature and specifying what is promised and the basis for these promises. We then proceed to examine the pri vatization of asingle service in Knoxville, Tennessee with regard to what basis promises were made and the innovation pursued. Finally we offer a preliminary analysis of the extent to which the privatization initiative lived up to its promises.

ISSN:1541-132X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1986.tb00434.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper summarizes conceptual and empirical research on the effects of using private insurance as an instrument for regulating the risks of the chemical cycle. The paper reviews the following issues: (1) the institutional choices in regulation activities that may cause latent damage; (2) the insurability of pollution liabilities; and (3) the actual problems with using the pollution liability insurance market as a regulatory tool.

ISSN:1541-132X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1986.tb00435.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper investigates one of the perennial mysteries in the area of state and local finance, the provision of tax and other subsidies to business by federal, state and local governments in the face of solid evidence that such incentives do little to nothing to influence business location or job creation. The paper looks at the upsurge in such governmental aid in the last decade and considers whether this upsurge has occurred because such aid is more efficacious than it used to be or whether it has occurred for political reasons unrelated to its effectiveness.

ISSN:1541-132X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1986.tb00436.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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The purpose of this paper is to recast the light in which we have come to evaluate public policy initiatives and open the door for a more careful examination o f the effects markets have on the course of public policies employing producer incentives to achieve policy goals. Specifically, the paper will review the past experience of urban renewal to show the relationship between policy objectives and outcomes when policy is designed to work through the marketplace. By arguing that market incentives cons train policy outcomes, it is maintained that policies which are judged to have failed in its goals may in reality have succeeded when viewed in terms of normal market operations.

ISSN:1541-132X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1986.tb00437.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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This article addresses the assumption that private sector management is more efficient than public sector management. It identifies the ways in which public and private sector personnel management are alike, and the ways in which they are different. The differences help the reader understand the reasons for the myth o f private sector superiority. This essay argues that, given the purposes of government employment which have littlet do with management efficiency, and which even militate against it, the criterionof efficiency is misplaced in the evaluation of the effectiveness of public administration. Using a variety of behavioral and motivational measures, it is demonstrable that workers in the public sector are not less likely to seek opportunities for personal fulfillmerit in their jobs than workers in the private sector. The lazy and indolent stereotype does not hold up.

ISSN:1541-132X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1986.tb00438.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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Within the last 35 years health care expenditures have increased from $12 billion t o over $350 billion. Recent concern over these costs have led to a reevaluation of the health care delivery system in the United States. This paper reviews four emerging cost containment models. The discussion focuses on the “market‐likell incentives introduced in to the health care delivery system by such strateg

ISSN:1541-132X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1986.tb00439.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper examines efforts to increase the role of the private sector in employment and job training programs mandated by the Private Sector Initiative Program (PSIP) and the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). In particular it will examine whether the emphasis on the private sector participation has led to a greater development of and reliance upon private sector strategies for training and placing the unemployed, as well as an exploration o f the relationship between public and private sector officials involved in program implementation.

ISSN:1541-132X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1986.tb00440.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1541-132X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1986.tb00441.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Alec Cairncross. Years of Recovery: British Economic PolicyJim Tomlinson. British Macroeconomic Policy Since 1940. Dover

ISSN:1541-132X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1986.tb00442.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY