Partners, Not Rivals
Subtitle: Privatization and the Public Good
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: July 17, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780807043363
Subjects: Cultural studies; Privatization; United States; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Social service; Politics/International Relations; Public contracts; Public Policy - General; General; Government & Business; Public Policy - Social Policy; Law / General; Contracting out
Description: "What happens when private companies, nonprofit agencies, and religious groups manage what government used to - in education, criminal justice, legal services, and welfare programs? As for-profit companies run schools, where will they make their profit margin? As religious groups provide job training and food stamps, will they respect public rules against discrimination and forcing people to pray?".

"Renowned legal scholar Martha Minow takes on this unexamined change in our public life. She acknowledges that private commercial interests are here to stay and that religious providers have long played crucial roles in health care, social services, and schooling. New arrangements expanding these trends are not necessarily bad - market forces can be useful in improving public services, and the motivation and know-how of religious groups can help many of the most needy.

Minow shows us how to guard against the dangers of privatization and preserve essential public values of due process, freedom from discrimination, and democratic participation."--BOOK JACKET.