Privatization

The privatization of government services, especially by utilizing the contracting-out mode, has accelerated in recent years in the United States, particularly at the state and local level. Shifts in the relative strength of forces in a political coalition model underlay the trend. There have been several benefits of privatization, especially cost containment and quality enhancement. The recent history of privatization provides a number of lessons to guide future privatization policy.     

Reviews

NEW GUINEA: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS. Peter Hastings. Melbourne, Cheshire, 1969. For the Australian Institute of International Affairs. Pp. 320. $4.95 (hardcover), $3.50 (paperback).

THE EAGLE AND THE LOTUS. J. F. Cairns. Melbourne, Lansdowne Press, 1969. Pp. 240. $4.95 (hardcover), $2.50 (paperback).

INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY. R. H. Snape. Melbourne, Longmans, 1969. Pp. vi + 122. $2.50.

THE STERLING AREA, THE COMMONWEALTH AND WORLD ECONOMIC GROWTH. J. O. N. Perkins. Occasional Papers II. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1967. Pp. 120. 17s 6d (U.K.).

NORFOLK ISLAND: AN OUTLINE OF ITS HISTORY 1774–1968. Merval Hoare. St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1969. Pp. 173. $3.95.

BEYOND THE URALS. Violet Conolly. London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. xx + 420. $11.60.

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA. R. T. Shand (ed.). Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1969. Pp. 360. $8.50.

JAPAN'S FIRST GENERAL ELECTION, 1890. R. H. P. Mason. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp. vii + 254. 42/‐ (U.K.).

KOREA AND THE POLITICS OF IMPERIALISM. C. I. Eugene Kim and Han‐Kyo Kim. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1967. Pp. x + 260. $7.00 (U.S.).

THE RUSSO‐CHINESE WAR. George Alexander Lensen. Tallahassee, The Diplomatic Press, 1967. Pp. 315. $15.00 (U.S.).

THE INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY: SECOND FRONT OF THE INDIAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT. K. K. Ghosh. Meerut, Meenakshi Prakashan, 1969. Pp. xxi + 351. Rs (Indian) 30.

BRITAIN AND THE PERSIAN GULF, 1894–1914. Briton Cooper Busch. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1968. Pp. XVI + 432. $8.75.

ZAMBIA: INDEPENDENCE AND BEYOND. THE SPEECHES OF KENNETH KAUNDA. Colin Legum (ed.) London, Nelson, 1966. Pp. xiii + 265. 35/‐ (U.K.).

THE EISENHOWER PRESIDENCY AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY. David B. Capitanchik. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. Pp. xi + 80. £1 (U.K.).

AUSSENPOLITIK IN ADENAUERS KANZLERDEMOKRATTE. A. Baring. Munich, Forschungsinstitut der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Auswärtige Politik, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1969. Pp. VII + 492.