The Politics of Quasi-Government: Hybrid Organizations and the
Dynamics of Bureaucratic Control. By Jonathan G. S. Koppell. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 239p. $60.00.
Do policymakers surrender popular sovereignty by granting public
authority to semiprivate institutions? Jonathan Koppell compares hybrid
organizations and government agencies in three policy
areas—housing, export promotion, and international market
development—and concludes that although hybrid organizations are
more difficult to control, they are not inimical to democracy.