As the new millennium begins, the debate about how best to provide, produce, and deliver public works and infrastructure services to a growing population increases in intensity. The authors argue that traditional definitions of “privatization” and “public-private partnerships” limit thinking about the options available to infrastructure policy makers and that a broader definition of potential arrangements that better captures the nature of the relationships between the public, private, and nonprofit sectors will lead to a more productive conversation about how best to meet infrastructure needs. This article thus sets the stage for the other four articles in this symposium and enjoins a debate about alternative service delivery arrangements in the 21st century.
Bloomfield, P. (1996). Flawed public-private partnerships: Lessons learned from bad bargains . Paper presented at the 57th national conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Atlanta, Georgia.
2.
Chi, K. ( 1998). Privatization in state government . Public Administration Review, 58, 374-375 .
3.
Cohen, S. , & Eimicke, W. (1995). The new effective public manager. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass .
4.
Dominey, M. (1999). Defining privatization: List of terms to improve the public works debate . Public Works Management & Policy , 3, 344-347 .
5.
Donahue, J.D. (1989). The privatization decision: Public ends, private means. New York: Basic Books .
6.
Heilman, J.G. , & Johnson, G.W. (1992). The politics and economics of privatization: The case of wastewater treatment. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press .
7.
Hukka, J.J. , Juuti, P.S. , Katko, T.S. , & Seppala, O.T. (2006). Many Ps needed for sustainable water services: Expansion of the scope of public-private partnerships . Public Works Management & Policy, 11, 104-109 .
8.
Kettl, D.F. (1987). Government by proxy: (Mis?)managing federal programs . Washington, DC: CQ Press .
9.
Kettl, D.F. (1993). Sharing power: Public governance and private markets . Washington, DC: Brookings .
10.
Kettl, D.F. (2006, November). Privatization for the new century. PATimes, p. 16 .
11.
Krugman, P. (2006, December 13). Fallacy of government outsourcing . The Palm Beach Post, p. 18a .
12.
Leavitt, W.M. , & Morris, J.C. (2005). In search of middle ground: The corporate device as an alternative to privatization. Public Works Management &Policy, 9, 154-163 .
13.
Milward, H.B. (1994). Nonprofit contracting and the hollow state . Public Administration Review, 54, 73-77 .
14.
Morris, J.C. (1997). The distributional impacts of privatization in national water quality policy . Journal of Politics, 59, 56-72 .
15.
Morris, J.C. (1999). Defining privatization: A response to Dominey. Public Works Management &Policy, 3, 152-155 .
16.
Nagle, J.F. (1992). A history of government contracting. Washington, DC: George Washington University Press .
17.
Price, B.E. (2006). Merchandizing prisoners: Who really pays for prison privatization?Westport, CT: Praeger .
18.
Salamon, L. M. (Ed.). (2002). The tools of government: A guide to the new governance. New York: Oxford University Press .
19.
Savas, E.S. (1987). Privatization: The key to better government. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House .
20.
Savas, E.S. (2000). Privatization and public-private partnerships . New York: Seven Bridges .
21.
Sclar, E.D. (2000). You don't always get what you pay for: The economics of privatization. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press .
22.
Skinner, S.K. (1989). Public-private partnerships in transportation . The Privatization Review, 4, 10-14 .
23.
Stanley, R. (1986). Time to get back on the track: The need for competitive services in transit . The Privatization Review, 2, 42-51 .
