From Bureaucracy to Business Enterprise: Legal and Policy Issues in the Transformation of Government Services

ISBN-13: 9781138717626 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 210 str.

Michael J. Whincop

Opis

This title was first published in 2003. This book summarises the principal policy initiatives used in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and New Zealand which have improved the efficiency of service delivery. Contrasts are made between commercialization, corporatization and privatization. The main focus of the book is on government corporations and the substantive content is divided into three sections: market issues, corporate governance issues and legal and ethical issues, looking at how markets, corporate governance processes and judicial review affect the efficiency and ethics of service delivery.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction, Michael J. Whincop; Halfway house or revolving door? corporatization and political cycles in Western democracy, A.J. Brown; Governance of public corporations: profits and the public benefit, John Quiggin; Corporatization and the behaviour of government owned corporations, Stephen P. King; Comments on Quiggin and King, Allan Brown; The role of ministerial shareholders in the governance of government owned corporations, Michael J. Whincop; Virtual privatization: governance reforms for government owned firms, David A. Skeel, Jr; Comments on Whincop and Skeel, Bernard McCabe; A private-rights standing model to promote public-regarding behaviour by government owned corporations, Maxwell L. Stearns; Governance, liability, and immunity of government business enterprizes and their boards, Bryan Horrigan; Complaint resolution in government owned corporations and privatized utilities: some legal and constitutional conundrums, Spencer Zifcak; Comments on Stearns, Horrigan and Zifcak, Stephen Bottomley; Index.

O autorze

Michael J. Whincop, Professor of Law, Law Faculty, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia