The Fox School of Business and Management

Publications

The Center for Competitive Government publishes regularly on privatization topics as part of its ongoing commitment to encourage debate and promote research.

A New Book Series on Protecting Critical Infrastructures

Just Published

• Safeguarding Homeland Security: Governors and Mayors Speak Out

• Product Flyer / Book Order Form
• Introductory Chapter
• Protecting Critical Infrastructure Flyer
• News Release

Chapters in Books

• "Private Policing: Experiences, Evaluation, and Future Direction", 2009 (with E. Blackstone), in Bruce Benson and Paul Zimmerman (editors), Handbook on the Economics of Crime, Bruce Benson and Paul Zimmerman (editors), Edward Elgar Publisher, Northampton, MA.

In Press

• Innovations in E-Government: Governors and Mayors Speak-Out
  Review of Innovations in E-Government: The Thoughts of Governors and Mayors
  One of the ten best books for public CIO's according to Government Technology Magazine, June 2007
  

Volumes

To date we have edited the following volumes (click on a title for contents and ordering information):

• Securing Home and Business: A Guide to the Security Industry
• Protecting Airline Passengers in the Age of Terrorism
• The New Public Management: Lessons from Innovating Governors and Mayors
• Reinventing Water and Wastewater Systems: Global Lessons for Improving Management
• Making Government Work: Lessons from America's Governors and Mayors
• Restructuring Education: Innovations and Evaluations of Alternative Systems
• Privatizing the United States Justice System
• Privatizing Correctional Institutions
• Privatizing Education and Educational Choice
• Privatizing Transportation Systems
• Privatizing Toll Roads
• Privatization and Competition in Telecommunications: International Developments
• Restructuring State and Local Services
• Smart Contracting for Local Government Services
• Contracting Out Government Services
• Privatization and Restructuring of Electricity Provision
• America's Water and Wastewater Industries: Competition and Privatization
• Management Innovations in Public Water and Wastewater
  View the Management Innovations flyer (PDF format)

These volumes are part of the series "Privatizing Government: An Interdisciplinary Series," which we edit for Praeger Publishers. All our publications contain a variety of articles written by researchers, practitioners, and members of groups directly involved in privatization such as government, business and labor organizations. We present diverse viewpoints, and cover all aspects of restructuring and privatization from theoretical analysis to actual implementation.

Conference Proceedings

• "Making Government Work: Best Practices in Competitive Government" (PDF format)
• "Seizing the Opportunity of E-Government" (PDF format)

• "Homeland Security, Safety and Economic Development"  
  (PDF format)

Articles

Members of the Center for Competitive government conduct research in various fields of privatization. Articles were written on police, prisons, highways and human services. The following are a few published articles.

• "Privatization of Alcohol Beverage Distribution in Pennsylvania"
  by Andrew J. Buck and Simon Hakim
• "Auctioning Spirits Distribution in West Virginia and Pennsylvania" by Andrew J. Buck
• "Do Burglars Calculate ROI? A Logistic Regression Analysis"
  by Dr. Yochanan Shachmurove, Dr. Gideon Fishman, and Dr. Simon Hakim
• "A Market Solutions to False Alarms"
  Privatization Watch, November 2002: 3
  Erwin A. Blackstone, and Simon Hakim
• "Not Calling the Police (First): A Market for Response Would Lower the Public Cost of False Alarms" (PDF format)
  Cato Institue, Vol. 25 (1), Spring 2002: 16-19
  Erwin Blackstone, Simon Hakim, Uriel Spiegel
• "The Economics of Crying Wolf"(PDF format)
  The Milken Institute Review, A Journal of Economic Policy, Second Quarter, 2001: 40-46.
• "Police Services: The Private Challenge"
  An Independent Institute Policy Report
  Erwin Blackstone and Simon Hakin
• "Making Inroads in Private Highway Construction"
  American City & County Magazine, (with E. Blackstone), August 1999: 52-56.
• "Private Guard Response to Alarm Activation",
  Security technology and Design, April 1995: 54-55.
• "Privately Managed Prisons Go Before the Review Board",
  American City & County, (with E. Blackstone) Vol. 111 (4), April 1996: 40-50.
• "Crying wolf with Public Safety",
  American City & County, (with E. Blackstone), Vol. 111 (10), August 1996: 54-64.
• "Private Ayes: A tale of four cities",
  American City & County, Vol. 112, (2), February 1997: PS4-PS12.
• "Evaluation of Alternative Policies to Combat False Emergency Calls",
  in Evaluation and Program Planning, Vol.28 (2): 233-242, 2005*.* (With Blackstone and Buck).
• "Privatizing adoption and foster care: Applying auction and market solutions", Children and Youth Service Review, Vol. 26 (2004): 1033-1049
• "A Market Alternative to Child Adoption and Foster Care", 2003. The Cato Journal, Vol. 22 (3), Winter: 485-494.
  (PDF format.)
• Funding the Local War on Terror: Dollars in Plain Sight
  in the Milken Institute Review:
  Journal of Economic Policy,
  with E. Blackstone and A. Buck,
  January, 2006: 46-56.
• Economics of Emergency Response, Policy Sciences, 2008 (Word Format)

Working Papers

• Introduction to Privatization
  (Word format)
• Description and Evaluation of Free Trade Zones
  (Word format)
• Electronic Government
  (Word format)

Other Books

• Improving Homeland Security and Public Safety: Governors and Mayors Speak Out.,
  Hakim, Simon and Erwin A. Blackstone (editors), Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, (Forthcoming)
• Kids Raised by the Government, Ira M. Schwartz and Gideon Fishman, Praeger, 1999.
• Justice for All, Arye Rattner and Gideon Fishman, Praeger, 1998.

References

• Adoption and Foster Care
• 2002 State Data on Adoption
• Federal Data
• Florida Performance Community-Based Care Data
• Additional Data on Community-Based Data in Florida
• Investigative Reports by the Florida Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability
• Review of the Investigative Reports by Topic Area
• PPP in Transportation
  • High Speed Rail
  • The Role of Tolls in Financing 21st Century Highways
  • Innovative Wave: An Update on the Burgeoning Private Sector Role in U.S. Highway and Transit Infrastructure

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