Rural Development, Privatization and Public Choice: Substance Depends Upon Process: Discussion

Public hospitals in financial distress: Is privatization a strategic choice?

BACKGROUND As safety net providers, public hospitals operate in more challenging environments than private hospitals. Such environments put public hospitals at greater risk of financial distress, which may result in privatization and deterioration of the safety net. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate whether financial distress is associated with privatization among public ho...

Employment, Privatization, and Managerial Choice: Does Contracting out Reduce Public Sector Employment?

We examine the effects of private sector contracting on public employment using panel data from the Census of Governments and International City/County Management Association surveys conducted in 1997 and 2002. We model decisions about contracting and the size of the public workforce as jointly-dependent decisions affecting both full-time and part-time employment. Our results from a seemingly u...

Racial Income Inequality and Public Sector Privatization

Social science accounts have only recently begun to recognize “new governance” shifts, including, but not limited to, privatization occurring in public sector institutions (e.g., education, prisons, the military) and in the functioning of federal and state sector jobs. This article, which presents unique analyses of wages across time using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and retested ...

Choice, rationality, and substance dependence.

Sacp Discussion Document on Rural Development Policy Framework