1st Edition
From Bureaucracy to Business Enterprise Legal and Policy Issues in the Transformation of Government Services
Edited By Michael J. Whincop
Copyright 2003
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
This title was first published in 2003.This book analyzes the policy initiatives used in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States to improve the efficiency of government service delivery, such as commercialization, privatization, and, in particular, corporatization. The book looks at how markets, corporate governance processes, and judicial and administrative reviews... Read more
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.
Biography
Michael J. Whincop, Professor of Law, Law Faculty, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia
