No Magic Bullets: Privatization's Threat to Urban Public Administration

Autor:	Donald Chisholm
Rok vydání:	1997
Předmět:	Deductive method media_common.quotation_subject Public policy Management Monitoring Policy and Law Public administration Adam smith Public choice Private sector Magic (paranormal) Management Information Systems Goods and services Economics Normative media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. 5:140-153
ISSN:	1468-5973 0966-0879
Popis:	The privatization movement poses a serious crisis for American urban public administration. It seeks to over-turn the century-old Progressive expansive vision of urban government and to revert many goods and services, now produced publicly, to the private sector. For its precepts and normative policy proposals, privatization relies on Public Choice Theory, a formal, deductive enterprise, itself founded in Adam Smith's 18th century economics. It is this deductive method, not the substance of privatization's proposals, which is so troubling. Public policy and institutional reform must rest on a firm empirical foundation, not on deduction from abstract first principles. In this, the privatizers ought to turn to the pragmatic method of the Progressives that treats public policies and institutional forms as hypotheses to be validated by empirical experminentation and to abandon deductive approaches.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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