Posts Tagged contracting
THIS is Troubling……
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on August 22nd, 2011
The Indianapolis Times posted a fairly lengthy piece today devoted to some troubling questions raised by the award of city contracts to Ballard’s largest contributors. For example, this paragraph: “Ballard Raised More Than $1.3 Million From Contributors Who Have Received $300 Million In Contracts: Ballard has received $1,368,693 in contributions to his reelection campaign from [...]
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When Privatizing Met Public Infrastructure
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on March 1st, 2011
As readers of this blog know, I’m not a “believer” in contracting-out–what we Americans quaintly call “privatization.” I’m not necessarily opposed to contracting, either–it’s a tool that can be appropriate in many circumstances. Call me an agnostic. It’s important to examine claims about privatizing, because contracting is too often a form of patronage–a way of [...]
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A Very Tangled Web: Public and Private Redux
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Academic Papers on April 14th, 2009
A Very Tangled Web: Public and Private Redux A Cautionary Tale Terre Haute is a mid-sized town on the western border of Indiana. In 2007, it held municipal elections, and voted in a new mayor, Duke Bennett. Bennett had defeated the former mayor, Kevin Burke. Shortly after the election, Burke sued to have [...]
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