Chiara Cordelli, The wrong of privatization : a Kantian account -- Louis-Philippe Hodgson, Privatization, efficiency, and the distribution of economic power -- Jonny Thakkar, Public and private ownership in Plato and Aristotle -- Malcolm Thorburn, Privatizing criminal punishment : what is at stake? -- Assaf Sharon and Shai Agmon, Justice and the market -- Ashwini Vasanthakumar, Outsourcing border control : public agency and action in migration -- Alexander Volokh, The moral neutrality of privatization as such -- Martha Minow, Privatizing social service -- Jon D. Michaels, Privatization, constitutional conservatism, and the fate of the American administrative state -- Brenda Cossman, Privatization and the intimate sphere -- Talia Fisher, The privatization of legal institutions -- J. Mark Ramseyer, On privatizing police : with examples from Japan -- Hans-Bernd Schafer & Michael Fehling, Privatization of the police -- Lisa Herzog, Privatizing private data -- Mariana Mota Prado, Political connections, corruption and privatization : who gains from privatization? -- Yael Kariv-Teitelbaum, The privatization of regulation : promises and pitfalls -- Israel Klein, The privatization of accounting standard-setting.
Summary:
"The outcome-based approach assesses the privatization of the provision of a good or a service by reference to the quality or quantity of its provision. Private provision is desirable when private entities make better - more efficient, just, etc.- decisions with respect to the relevant good/service than public entities. The most influential outcome-based approach is the economic theory which typically considers the merits of privatization on efficiency-based grounds. Alternatively, it can be argued that public entities have valuable process-related properties; for instance, public institutions, are more accountable, transparent, and answerable to their beneficiaries and other constituents. A process-based approach focuses its attention on the decisionmaking procedures, in particular, the reasoning of the institution rather than on outcomes. Finally, some theorists maintain that the identity of the agent itself may matter. For instance, it is claimed that being a private or a public entity is crucial for the very possibility of engaging in certain enterprises, e.g., legislation or the imposition of criminal punishment as these are agent-dependent practices; their success hinges on the identity of the agent"-- Provided by publisher.
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