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Private Provision Of Public Infrastructure: An Organizational Analysis Of The Next Privatization Frontier, Ronald Daniels, Michael Trebilcock

Ronald J. Daniels

Constrained by severe, ongoing fiscal pressures and sensitive to concerns over bureaucratic inefficiency, policy-makers in a number of countries are re-evaluating both the goals and instruments of the modern state. In doing so, some have endorsed the need for government 'reinvention,' a term that is admittedly susceptible of a broad range of meanings, but which nonetheless contemplates a significant shift away from reliance on governmental provision of goods and services in favour of provision by the for-profit and third sectors.' Although not uncontroversial, the claim is that, in comparison with governmental supply systems, both for-profit and third sector modes of …