The Politics of Public Services: A Service Characteristics Approach
提出一个框架，通过分析服务的商品性质、市场失灵类型、交付任务和需求等特征，来理解和比较不同服务如何影响政治承诺、组织控制和用户权力。
Politics is widely regarded as affecting and being affected by the performance of public services, yet little research differentiates between services in exploring these effects. The article addresses this gap by proposing a framework for understanding and comparing the politics of different services. It identifies how the nature of the good, type of market failure, tasks involved in delivery, and demand for a service—hitherto regarded largely as economic and managerial concerns—affect political commitment, organizational control, and user power. Policy responses can be targeted to address service characteristics where they present opportunities or constraints to better services.