TERMS

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TERMS

• Privatization
• Contracting-out
• Governance

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LEFT, LIBERAL AND RIGHT

• Strong government
• Policy focus
• Weak government
• Less government
• Institutional focus

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WHATS AN INSTITUTION?

• Rules by which we govern ourselves
• Means of enforcing them
• Examples Parliament, the courts, city council,
  mayoralty

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PUBLIC CHOICE

• Anything the market can do, it can do better
• Why?
• Choice
• Competition
• Exception externalities

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REINVENT GOVERNMENT

• Privatize if possible
• Steer, dont row

• Put jobs out to tender

• Competition within government

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AGREEMENT DISAGREEMENT WITHIN THE RIGHT WING

• Social welfare measures
• Common ground. Local government should stick to

• Hard services
• Support for economic development
• Fiscal prudence
• Public order

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WINNIPEG EXAMPLES

• Garbage collection
• Charleswood Bridge
• Water park

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MORE THEORY

• Small, specialized units of government
• Weak government
• Competition within government
• Two ways to be small
• Small jurisdictions
• Fragmentation

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STILL MORE THEORY

• Different kinds and levels of services Choice
• Voting with your feet

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CRITIQUE

• Cheap labour
• Collusion in bidding
• Danger in garbage contracts?
• Mobility is for privileged people
• Flim-flam Taking a ride on business prestige
• Charleswood Bridge

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WHATS GOOD ABOUT PUBLIC CHOICE?

• Department-by-department accounting
• Contracting some jobs out, with departments
  allowed to bid, provided good wages are ensured

• Require unionized workforce
• Living wage provisions

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RIGHT WING CONSTITUENCY

• Supporters of economic growth, including
• Business people
• Homeowners
• Anyone who considers business people good
  managers
• Varieties of conservatives
• Boosters
• Fiscal conservatives

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RIGHT WING ISSUES

• Economic development
• Infrastructure development
• Public order
• Keep public expenditures and taxes down
• Resisting public sector unions