Armajani Nowhere, if privatization means replacing a public monopoly with a private monopoly.
Governments are uniquely best at producing services which serve collective interests.
Before you can issue an RFP or contract for a service, you have to state precisely what you want accomplished. If a government has over the years failed to make changes and failed to incorporate more efficient and effective ideas, it becomes stale and stagnant. So local governments who fail to adapt, change and reorganize themselves become the fertile ground for outsourcing. In the technology area. If the agencies or government writes in performance standards that the private company has to meet, then they re not tied down with Gosh, Bob s going on vacation this week.