- A-Z
- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume16
- State or Private Se...
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 19. Juli 2022
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2022-009
- Schlagwort(e)
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civil security
economics of security
homeland security
privatisation of security
protection
public good
publicly provided good
security industry
- Zusammenfsg.
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The issue of internal security has become increasingly complex over the past decades. As there is an increasing overlap between private and public provision of security, the question of how to allocate responsibility for security between the public sphere (state) and the pri- vate sphere has become important. The literature suggests that this question cannot be an- swered based on a simple private vs. public binarity. Concepts that can provide both clarity and sufficient complexity are much needed. This article offers an institutional economics concept based on the difference between provision and production, and discusses selection criteria for public vs. private provision, and production of protection services at three differ- ent stages: punishment as deterrence; patrol services; and self-defence. What stands out is that a unique characteristic of the economic good ‘protection service’ is of particular rele- vance for the level of provision as well as of production: the potential repressivity.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- H41 - Public Goods ; H42 - Publicly Provided Private Goods ; K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law ; L33 - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises; Privatization; Contracting Out ; L51 - Economics of Regulation