Market-Based Public Policy

269 Pages·1988·23.193 MB·English

by  Richard C. Hula (eds.)

MARKET-BASED PUBLIC POLICY
POLICY STUDIES ORGANIZATION SERIES
General Editor: Stuart S. Nagel, Professor of Political Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Don F. Hadwiger and William P. Browne (editors)
PUBLIC POLICY AND AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY:
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Richard C. Hula (editor)
MARKET-BASED PUBLIC POLICY
Rita Mae Kelly (editor)
PROMOTING PRODUCTIVITY IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR:
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Market-Based
Public Policy
Edited by
Richard C. Hula
Associate Professor,
Department of Family and Community,
University of Maryland
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Market-based public policy.-(Policy Studies
Organization series)
1. Policy sciences 2. United States
Politics and government-1971-
1. Hula, Richard C. Il. Series
353'.072 H61
ISBN 978-1-349-08893-5 ISBN 978-1-349-08891-1 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-08891-1
To Catherine, Aaron and Lauren
Contents
Notes on the Contributors lX
Preface xiii
PART I INTRODUCTION
I Using Markets to Implement Public Policy
Richard C. Hula 3
PART II PRIVATIZATION (l) PRIVATE MARKET
STRATEGIES
2 Societal Risk Management through the Insurance Market
Martin T. Katzman 21
3 Governers and Markets: Corporate Recruitment from the
Gubernatorial Perspective
Dennis 0. Grady 43
PART II PRIVATIZATION (2) CONTRACT STRATEGIES
4 Rescuing Politics from the Economists: Privatizing the
Public Sector
L. A. Wilson II 59
5 From Administration to Oversight: Privatization and its
Aftermath in a Southern City
Michael R. Fitzgerald, William Lyons and
Floydette C. Cory 69
6 Practical Issues in Developing Competitive Contracting for
Home Care Services
Bette S. Hill, C. Jean Blaser and Pamela W. Balmer 84
PART II PRIVATIZATION (3) CO-PRODUCTION
STRATEGIES
7 Community Collaboration: Public-Private Partnerships in
Connecticut
Carol W. Lewis and Morton J. Tenzer 99
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8 Neighbourhood Co-production of Protection: a Private
Sector Response to Crime
Ralph E. Baker and Fred A. Myer Jr. Ill
9 Privatism in Local Land Use Development: the Use of
Exactions, Impact Fees and Impact Taxes by
Municipalities
Alvin H. Mushkatel and Louis Weschler 121
PART III SUBSIDIES
10 Urban Policies, Social Goals and Producer Incentives: Are
Market Mechanisms and Policy Objectives Compatible?
David Fasenfest 137
11 Modelling the Provision of Industrial Development
Incentives
Paul Peretz 158
PART IV MARKET ANALOGS
12 The Commercial Republic Re-examined: A Critique of the
Economization Model of Public Policy Making
Ralph Clark Chandler 181
13 Voluntary Siting of Unwanted Facilities
David Goetze 204
14 Creating a Private-Sector Orientation Through
Public-Private Partnerships: The Experience of
Employment and Training Programmes
Marshall R. Goodman 223
15 EPA's Bubble Policy: The Theory of Marketable Pollution
Permits Confronts Reality
Richard A. Liroff 242
Index 263
Notes on the Contributors
Ralph E. Baker is Professor of Political Science in the Department of
Political Science at Ball State University. His major research interests
are the politics of the criminal justice system and public law. He is
president of the Indiana Political Science Association.
Pamela W. Balmer is the Supervisor of the Program and Policy
Section in the Division of Long-Term Care at the Illinois Department
of Aging. Her responsibilities include contracting procurement and
rule making with the Community Care vendors. She holds a Masters
Degree in Public Administration.
C. Jean Blaser is the Manager of the Division of Long-Term Care at
the Illinois Department of Aging. Her responsibilities include
management of the statewide Community Care Program which serves
over 30 000 frail older persons each year. She holds a PhD in
Experimental Psychology with research interests in public policy and
long-term care.
Ralph Clark Chandler teaches constitutional law and public admini
stration at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. He is a court
master for the Federal District Court of the Western District of
Michigan, and frequently consults with federal, state and local
governmental institutions on personnel matters.
Floydette C. Cory is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the
University of Tennessee. She is currently writing her dissertation, 'A
Model of Citizen Satisfaction of Urban Service Delivery'.
David Fasenfest is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola Univer
sity of Chicago. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University
of Michigan after working a number of years as a development
economist. Currently his primary areas of interest are urban policy
and community development.
Michael R. Fitzgerald is Associate Professor of Political Science at the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His articles on urban politics,
public administration and public policy have appeared in American
Politics Quarterly, Public Administration Review, International Jour
nal of Urban Systems and Public Administration Quarterly.
Marshall R. Goodman is an Assistant Professor of Government at
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Georgetown University. His research and publications centre on
partnership efforts between public and private sectors, regulatory
affairs and labour and human resource policy.
Dennis 0. Grady is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political
Science at the University of Northern Iowa. His articles on Superna
tural behavior have appeared in the Journal of State Government and
the Western Political quarterly. His current research is focused on
state business incentive competition.
David Goetze is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political
Science at Utah State University. He writes and teaches on environ
mental and natural resource issues. Most recently, he has taken an
interest in comparative public policy and comparative political econ
omy.
Bette S. Hill is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political
Science at the University of Akron. Her teaching and research
interests include health and aging policies, public administration and
methods of policy analysis. She has recently been a post-doctoral
fellow of The Gerontological Society of America in the Applied
Research Fellowship programme working with the Illinois Depart
ment of Aging.
Richard C. Hula is an Associate Professor of Family and Community
Development at the University of Maryland-College Park, and
UMCP Distinguished Scholar-Teacher (1986-87). His research inter
ests include urban politics and policy. He is currently focusing on
alternative community service delivery systems.
Martin T. Katzman is Professor of Economics and Environmental
Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas and a Senior Economist
at Argonne National Laboratory. He has been engaged in studies of
risk and insurance of low-probability/high consequence technologies,
with the support of the Huebner Foundation for Insurance Edu
cation, Resources for the Future and CPCU-Harry J. Loman Foun
dation. He recently published Chemical Catastrophies and is writing a
volume on compensating victims of chemical injuries.
Carol W. Lewis is Associate Professor of Political Science at the
University of Connecticut and Associate Director of the Institute of
Urban Research. She is co-editor of Casebook in Public Budgeting and
Financial Management and Reagan and the Cities. Her articles have
appeared in Public Administration Review, Pub/ius, Policy Studies
Journal and Comparative Urban Research.