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	<title>Sheila Kennedy &#187; privatization</title>
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	<description>Thinking about Liberty</description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s No &#8220;We&#8221; in Mitch Land&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/12/theres-no-we-in-mitch-land/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/12/theres-no-we-in-mitch-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[320 million windfall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Goldsmith]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Steve Goldsmith was Mayor&#8211;talking incessantly about government&#8217;s &#8220;customers&#8221; while shifting costs from the operating to the capital budget in order to &#8220;reduce&#8221; taxes (i.e., push the costs to the next administration)&#8211;I used to grouse that his vision of the ideal government would be one that eliminated all municipal services so that the City-County Building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shadow Government</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/the-shadow-government/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/the-shadow-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A fair amount of my academic research has addressed issues of government privatization&#8211;or more accurately, contracting out. (Privatization, as Morton Marcus frequently notes, is what Margaret Thatcher did in England: selling off government enterprises to private sector owners. In the US, privatization means providing government services through for-profit or nonprofit contractors&#8211;a very different thing.) My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Clear Choice</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/a-clear-choice/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/a-clear-choice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Ballard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melina Kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vision]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the Indianapolis Star did profiles of the candidates for Mayor, and focused on their respective &#8220;visions.&#8221; It was easy to agree with Melina Kennedy&#8217;s priorities&#8211;education, economic development and public safety&#8211;but in fairness, despite successful performance as Deputy Mayor charged with economic development in the Peterson Administration, she hasn&#8217;t been responsible for public safety or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selling Indiana: Update</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/06/selling-indiana-update/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/06/selling-indiana-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food stamps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toll Road]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[welfare]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1660</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, the LA Times and the Northwest Indiana Times both had stories about Mitch Daniel&#8217;s privatization initiatives. The Northwest Indiana article reported on the impending default of the private operator of the Indiana Toll Road. While a default would probably not cost Indiana taxpayers&#8211;the private operator paid us in advance&#8211;it might well cost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politics and Propaganda</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/03/politics-and-propaganda/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/03/politics-and-propaganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apples to apples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peer-review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public sector workers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I opened the Sunday Indianapolis Star to a front-page story about Governor Mitch Daniels&#8217; claim that public employees make more than their private-sector counterparts. The article discussed the issue in the &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221; way we&#8217;ve come to expect from &#8220;journalists&#8221; today, dutifully reporting on the &#8220;he said/she said&#8221; dueling studies&#8211;without bothering to tell readers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Privatizing Met Public Infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/03/when-privatizing-met-public-infrastructure/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/03/when-privatizing-met-public-infrastructure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contracting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1295</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As readers of this blog know, I&#8217;m not a &#8220;believer&#8221; in contracting-out&#8211;what we Americans quaintly call &#8220;privatization.&#8221; I&#8217;m not necessarily opposed to contracting, either&#8211;it&#8217;s a tool that can be appropriate in many circumstances. Call me an agnostic. It&#8217;s important to examine claims about privatizing, because contracting is too often a form of patronage&#8211;a way of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Drives Me Crazy</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/what-drives-me-crazy/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/what-drives-me-crazy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contracting out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niall Ferguson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago, I got my ever-thinner print version of Newsweek, and began leafing through it. I came to an article by one Niall Ferguson (&#8220;Niall Ferguson Solves the Debt Crisis&#8221;) I don&#8217;t know who Ferguson is, although I&#8217;ve seen his name here and there, but obviously, if he has a solution to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Park It</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/09/park-it/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/09/park-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indianapolis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1046</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Ballard’s proposal to privatize the city’s parking continues to spark bipartisan concern. Last week, the Sunday Star ran a “point-counterpoint” between Deputy Mayor Michael Huber, the proposal’s architect, and Aaron Renn, a respected urban affairs expert who has criticized it. Star editor Dennis Ryerson noted that many open questions should be answered before the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing The Taxing Power</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/02/outsourcing-the-taxing-power/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/02/outsourcing-the-taxing-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=977</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a lively debate currently raging over the apparent intent of the Ballard Administration to sell Indianapolis’ water and sewer utilities. Most of the criticism centers on allegations that the decision-making process has been less than transparent—that whatever the merits of an ultimate deal, the public has been largely shut out of the discussions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem with Faith-Based Contractors</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/11/the-problem-with-faith-based-contractors/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/11/the-problem-with-faith-based-contractors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith-based contracting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious discrimination]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=906</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There really is no constitutional problem with government contracting with religious organizations for purely secular services. The state can purchase medical care or babysitting or welfare services from any organization, religious or secular, having the capacity to deliver those services in a constitutionally appropriate way&#8211;i.e., without proselytizing vulnerable populations, etc. A problem that is rarely discussed, however, has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Current Mess&#8211;a recent rant</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/04/our-current-mess-a-recent-rant/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/04/our-current-mess-a-recent-rant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trustworthy government]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=667</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[The other night, I spoke to the Washington Township Democratic Club, and thought I'd post those remarks here.]                                                  When I labeled this talk “The Current Mess” it was because I hadn’t decided what to talk about, and I figured “mess” covered pretty much anything I might choose—locally, I might be talking about our Mayor. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Very Tangled Web: Public and Private Redux</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/04/a-very-tangled-web-public-and-private-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/04/a-very-tangled-web-public-and-private-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Papers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contracting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/04/a-very-tangled-web-public-and-private-redux/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[    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 [...]]]></description>
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