Market-Based Governance Supply Side, Demand Side, Upside, and Downside

The latest in a series exploring twenty-first-century governance, this new volume examines the use of market means to pursue public goals. ¡°Market-based governance¡± includes both the delegation of traditionally governmental functions to private players, and the importation into government of market-style management approaches and mechanisms of accountability.The contributors (all from Harvard University) assess market-based governance from four perspectives:The ¡°demand side¡± deals with new, revised, or newly important forms of interaction between government and the market where the public sector is the ¡°customer.¡± Chapters in this section include Steve Kelman on federal procurement reform, Karen Eggleston and Richard Zeckhauser on contracting for health care, and Peter Frumkin. The ¡°supply side¡± section deals with unsettled questions about government¡¯s role as a provider (rather than a purchaser) within the market system. Contributors include Georges de Menil, Frederick Schauer and Virginia Wise.A third section explores experiments with market-based arrangements for orchestrating accountability outsidegovernment by altering the incentives that operate inside market institutions. Chapters include Robert Stavins on market-based environmental policy, Archon Fung on ¡°social markets,¡± and Cary Coglianese and David Lazer.The final section examines both the upside and the downside of the market-based approach to improving governance. Contributors include Elaine Kamarck, John D. Donahue, Mark Moore, and Robert Behn.An introduction by John D. Donahue frames market-based governance as an effort to engineer into public work some of the ¡°intensive¡± accountability that characterizes markets without surrendering the ¡°extensive¡± accountability of conventional government. A preface by Joseph S. Nye Jr. sets the book in the context of a larger inquiry into the future of governance.

Robert D. Behn: Visiting Professor, Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Public Policy, Duke University Cary Coglianese: Associate Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Georges de Menil: Visiting Professor, Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Economics, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris Karen Eggleston: Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University Peter Frumkin: Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Archon Fung: Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Elaine Ciulla Kamarck: Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Steven Kelman: Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Weatherhead Professor of Public Management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University David Lazer: Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Mark H. Moore: Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy and Public Management and Director, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Frederick Schauer: Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Robert N. Stavins: Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Virginia J. Wise: Lecturer on Law, Harvard University School of Law Richard Zeckhauser: Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University John D. Donahue is the Raymond Vernon Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government Joseph S. Nye Jr. is dean of the Kennedy School at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University