Fordham Urban Law Journal articles from June 2001

Fordham Urban Law Journal archives from June 2001

The changing shape of government. (Symposium).
June 1, 2001... MS. METZGER: Hello. I am very pleased to be moderating this first panel on "The Changing Shape of Government." How to secure government accountability in the context of the expansion of privatization in government is a question central to our...

Public oversight of public/private partnerships. (Symposium).
June 1, 2001... PROFESSOR BRIFFAULT: This is the panel in which we begin to look more directly at some of the mechanisms for accountability and monitoring, a central theme of the entire Symposium. The panelists will be talking about such issues as the role of...

Living with privatization: at work and in the community. (Symposium).(Panel Discussion)
June 1, 2001... MS. O'CONNOR: Good afternoon. Welcome back to the Fordham Urban Law Journal's Tenth Annual Symposium on Contemporary Urban Challenges. The title of our Symposium is Redefining the Public Sector: Accountability and Democracy in the Era of...

Privatization in practice: human services.
June 1, 2001... PROFESSOR DILLER: I just want to give a brief introduction of our panelists. To my immediate left is Anna Burger, who is with SEIU, the Service Employees International Union, which is the largest union representing human services...

Privatization and the democracy problem in globalization: making markets more accountable through administrative law.
June 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION In this article I will analyze the privatization of traditional government services by placing such changes in governance in a global context. The connections between, for example, private prisons and globalization may appear,...

Privatization and political accountability.
June 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION This article is an attempt to draw some general connections between privatization and political accountability. Political accountability is to be understood as the amenability of a government policy or activity to monitoring...

Contractual welfare: non-accountability and diminished democracy in local government contracts for welfare-to-work services.
June 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION The Welfare State of the mid-twentieth century has been supplanted by the rise of the Contractual State, miring welfare reform in the United States in this worldwide reinvention of government. Moving people from welfare to...

The new governance and the tools of public action: an introduction.
June 1, 2001... In economic life the possibilities for rational social action, for planning, for reform--in short, for solving problems--depend not upon our choice among mythical grand alternatives but largely upon choice among particular social techniques......

Privatized communities and the "secession of the successful": democracy and fairness beyond the gate.(common interest developments)
June 1, 2001... The fabric of civitas, communal commitment to civic and public life, has begun to rip. (1) [A] house divided against itself cannot stand. (2) I am trying to envision what happens when 10 or 20 percent of the population has enough...

Privatization and public employment: an essay on the current status and the stakes.
June 1, 2001... Is conventional public service being swept away by a tidal wave of outsourcing? If replacement by private providers is eroding public employment, how (if at all) should the interests of government workers, and government employment as part of...

Government as administrator vs. government as purchaser: do rules or markets create greater accountability in serving the poor?
June 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION: THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ACCOUNTABILITY We are immersed in a sea of accountability. The bed we crawl out of each morning (unless it was manufactured decades ago) meets the safety standards set by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety...

Privatization and the new public management.(government contracting)
June 1, 2001... Privatization is now commonplace throughout the world: in communist, socialist, and capitalist countries; in developed and developing countries; in democracies and dictatorships. In the United States privatization is being practiced by...

Old wine in new bottles: public interest lawyering in an era of privatization.
June 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION Both the theory and practice of public interest lawyering are in transition. Whereas the public interest lawyer of the 1960s and 1970s typically advocated before administrative agencies and courts on behalf of poor people and...