Politics, Policy, and Public Options

doi:10.1017/9781108767552

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Edited by Ganesh Sitaraman, Vanderbilt University School of Law, Anne Alstott, Yale University Law School

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: June 2021
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9781108767552
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767552
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Economics, Macroeconomics, Law and Economics, Law

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A public option is a government-provided social good that exists alongside a similar privately provided good. While the public option is typically identified with health care policy, public options have been a longstanding feature of American life in a variety of sectors, ranging from libraries to swimming pools. Public schools, for example, coexist alongside private schools. However, there is surprisingly little research on 'public options' as a general category. Rather, over the last few decades, considerable scholarly and popular efforts to ensure access to important social goods have focused on market subsidies (like vouchers) or privatization – which both face increasing criticism. Uniting scholars from across disciplines, this volume delves into the theory of the public option, explores several important case studies, and shows how public options could be a corrective to the trend toward privatization and subsidies. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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