Contributions by ‘Alexander Volokh’

Privatization is unpopular in the contemporary academy, bound up with the contested term “neoliberalism” and the supposed death throes of government since Reagan-Thatcher times. This is doubly so when it comes to the “privatization of force”—the prime example being private prisons.
Much of the critique is in the terms of conventional policy analysis: welfare scholars explain the perverse effects of welfare privatization; prison scholars critique prison privatization; international law or national security scholars decry the abuses of Blackwater.