Research Handbook on Privatisation

Edited by Graeme A. Hodge, Professor, Monash University, Australia, Carsten Greve, Professor, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Eoin Reeves, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Limerick, Ireland

'This Research Handbook is an indispensable resource, providing updated insights into privatization models, developments, key theories, and global evidence. The Handbook is an essential reading for scholars, students, and practitioners looking to stay informed on the privatization of public services.’

• ContentsPreface and acknowledgements xiPART I INTRODUCTION: DEFINITIONS, CONCEPTS, AND CONTEXT1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Privatisation 2Graeme A. Hodge, Carsten Greve and Eoin Reeves2 Regulatory capitalism, privatisation, and governing 15Graeme A. Hodge and Carsten Greve3 The long history of privatisation: a short summary 41Tony BovairdPART II ENTERPRISE SALES AND CONTRACTING OUT PUBLIC SECTOR SERVICES4 Enterprise sales: experience and ideas in Western liberal countries 58Harriet Gray5 Enterprise sales: paradoxes of transformational privatisation 89Eva Voszka6 Governing with contracts: have we entered the era of the outsourced state? 113Graeme A. Hodge and David Van Slyke7 Do state-owned enterprises behave like public or private entities when they go abroad? 140Judith Clifton and Daniel Díaz-Fuentes8 McKinseyfication of government 158Matti Ylönen and Hanna KuuselaPART III PRIVATISATION: AN ENDURING INFLUENCE9 Privatisation and health care 174Hal Swerissen and Stephen Duckett10 Public and private values: a continuing story 193Gene A. Brewer 11 A century of housing privatisation: the case of Ireland 213Eoin O’Sullivan, Dónal Palcic and Eoin Reeves12 The privatisation of Urban Planning: smarter cities? 229Yinnon Geva and Matti SiemiatyckiPART IV CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC POLICY CHALLENGES13 The privatisation of finance: can private finance save the world? 246Stewart Smyth and Anne Stafford14 Governing the already privatised internet? 267Joshua Yuvaraj15 Privatisation, commodification, and the public sphere 303Henry Silke, Ciara Graham and Kathryn Hayes16 The privatisation of sport 320Eric Windholz17 The potentials for government-foundation partnerships to address public sector challenges in the twenty-first century 337Eric Boyer and Hyunrang Han18 The privatisation of space? 357Nicolas Peter and Douglas K. R. Robinson19 The (alleged) rise of reverse privatisation: causes, effects, and implications for public service delivery 375Bart Voorn and Ina RadtkePART V CONCLUSIONS20 The promise and perils of privatisation: making sense of it all 390Graeme A. Hodge, Carsten Greve and Eoin ReevesIndex 403