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Private sector civilian defense contractors are needed more than ever by government customers to provide countless services in dangerous locations such as Afghanistan and Iraq. Due to the negative ramifications suffered by all parties (providing organizations, government custome…

Afghanistan's health sector reconstruction relies on contracting for service delivery. Each major health sector donor funded different approaches to contracting. The key differences between the contracting-out approaches are whether NGOs receive performance incentives, the inten…

This thesis analyzes state utilization of private military and security companies (PMSC), using United States Government (USG) outsourcing during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) as a case study to investigate how PMSCs influence interstate conflicts. Cost savings are a primary jus…

My dissertation has three main goals: (1) to extend the literature on contracting to include an analytical treatment of the governance choices for newly privatized enterprises; (2) to highlight the advantages that may accrue to governments and private investors by choosing one g…