Privatization and Public-Private Partnerships

Savas provides a complete guide to privatization--the background theory and practical reality. This book explains what why when and how to privatize. Contracting services using franchises and vouchers divesting government-owned businesses privatizing infrastructure through public-private partnerships reforming education privatizing the welfare state and overcoming opposition to privatization are discussed in detail. In addition Savas provides hundreds of examples from local state and federal government in the U.S. and other countries.