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Outsourcing and Privatization

Our panel of experts discusses outsourcing and privatization in an era of government golf courses, private jails, and blurred distinctions between public- and private-sector enterprises.

What state and local government operations can be outsourced or privatized? Should they be? In an era of government golf courses, private jails, and a blurring of traditional distinctions between public- and private-sector enterprises, we ask our panel of experts to discuss this increasingly controversial subject.



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Today, government agencies run golf courses, telecommunications systems and casinos. Corporations deliver mail, sell drinking water and run jails. Is something wrong with this picture?

Outsourcing has been employed successfully for years for such things as Medicaid processing
Wayne E. Hanson served as a writer and editor with e.Republic from 1989 to 2013, having worked for several business units including Government Technology magazine, the Center for Digital Government, Governing, and Digital Communities. Hanson was a juror from 1999 to 2004 with the Stockholm Challenge and Global Junior Challenge competitions in information technology and education.