Moving Toward Market-Based Government: The Changing Role  of Government as the Provider

June 2003 Moving Toward Market-Based Government: The Changing Role  of Government as the Provider One of the major changes taking place today in government management  (federal, state, and local) is the shift from the government as the historic "provider" of services to the government as the "manager of the providers" of services to the public.  The basic rationale for this change is that - when properly implemented - it results in significant benefits, in terms of improved performance and lower costs, to both the government and to the public being served.  Essentially, it is a shift from monopoly supplier (the historic . . .