Rethinking Governance in Public Service Outsourcing

Nina Boeger is Professor of Law at City, University of London.

• Introduction1- Outsourcing Public Services2- Problems in Public Service Outsourcing3- Solutions in Governance4- Solutions in Ownership5- Sustainable Ownership6- Nurturing Sustainable Ownership7- The Legal FrameworkConclusion

"Amidst rising spending on public procurement and growing evidence of serious failures in service provision by profit-oriented, often highly-financialized, private providers, Nina Boeger's innovative, thoughtful and timely book explores some of the ways in which alternative, more inclusive, less financially oriented providers might be integrated into, and used to improve, the provision of public services. In challenging the idea that the choice is a simple one between provision by private or state-owned companies, the book serves the important purpose of highlighting not merely the need for experimentation but the wide range of institutional possibility." Paddy Ireland, University of Bristol