Decision theory includes arbitration, bargaining and game theory, whose relationships to each other are not well-understood. This paper introduces a particular weighted arbitration operator and applies it to King Solomon’s dilemma and Nash’s original bargaining problem. These applications allow a more meaningful comparison of the three theories and show that arbitration provides a more natural,...

The Department of Defense’s utility systems have suffered from under-funding and lack of technology investment, thereby creating a service gap between these DoD systems and systems operated by commercial providers. In order to overcome this gap and refurbish their systems, the DoD has focused its efforts on privatization of these systems. Although the Air Force has published source selection gu...

What is the evidence about the impact of privatization on public resources? Using home security systems as a case study and historical evaluation as a method, I reexamine the assumption that the growth of a private security industry has reduced demands of wealthier citizens on public police and the public purse. Evaluation evidence based on historical research casts serious doubt on whether the...

this paper reviews the relationship between the rule of law, good governance, and sustainable development as those terms are used by the relevant development organizations; describes the efforts made by various organizations to promote the rule of law and good governance; and addresses the need to strengthen compliance and enforcement for sustainable development. a recent movement, which has re...

Privatization has been the most controversial policy dominating the political agenda of many countries around the world. For instance, in the 1980s privatization were the policy choice and preferences as well as the new wave of conservative market reforms beginning in the west with the Thatcher government in the United Kingdom in 1979 and the Regan government in the United States the following ...

OBJECTIVES This study had two objectives: (1) to determine what the public health and development literature has found regarding the public health outcomes of water privatization in Latin America and (2) to evaluate whether the benefits of water privatization, if any, outweigh the equity and justice concerns that privatization raises. METHODS Using a standard set of terms to search several da...