Smart Contracting for Local Government Services: Processes and Experience (Privatizing Government) - Hardcover

Lavery, Kevin

 
9780275964283: Smart Contracting for Local Government Services: Processes and Experience (Privatizing Government)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0275964280 ISBN 13: 9780275964283
Verlag: Praeger, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Privatization of local government is making headlines throughout the world. Scottsdale, Arizona, contracts for fire protection; Baltimore, to run nine city schools; and Chicago and Philadelphia for a range of services from janitors to recreational facilities. The United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia have arguably gone further than the United States. But much of the debate on contracting has been high on politics, philosophy, and emotion with little attention to practical issues of how to do contracting well. The book shifts the debate away from the politics and rhetoric to the practicalities and realities of contracting.

The book is concerned with four issues―the role of contracting in government, the appropriateness of different contracting strategies, the process of contracting, and who does the contracting. Drawing on examples in the United States and the United Kingdom, the author considers the historical and cultural context of contracting, where contracting works and where it doesn't, the features of smart contracting, and the conditions that are conducive to smart contracting. The book provides an invaluable guide to those concerned with the practicalities of contracting.

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KEVIN LAVERY is currently the chief executive of the City of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in Great Britain./e While doing the research for this book, he was on a Harkness Fellowship at the School of Public Administration at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

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Verlag
Praeger
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0275964280
ISBN 13 
9780275964283
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
232
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