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Privatization and decentralization in the United States and Chile
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Privatization and decentralization in the United States and Chile

William Tankersley and Alfred Cuzán
At the Crossroads of Development: Transnational Challenges to Developed and Developing Societies, pp.104-118
International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Volume 65
1997
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004476295_009

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This paper adopts a comparative, analytical approach leading to the suggestion that while Chile and other developing societies might beneficially borrow from the US experience with techniques of privatization and decentralized delivery of social services, the United States, and other developed societies, likewise will benefit from privatizing existing social security systems along Chilean lines. Grounded in the assumption that privatization must be explicitly defined and fully understood as offering governance as well as administrative choices drawn from a complex set of socio-economic techniques, the paper concludes that the most important benign effects of privatization will be obtained from a policy which allows for public provision of socially desired goods and services which are privately produced.

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