Sicherheitsverantwortung zwischen Staat und Markt – eine ordnungsökonomische Analyse

• September 2018
• Wolfgang Bretschneider, Andreas Freytag, Johannes Rieckmann, Tim H. Stuchtey

• BIGS Study Number 6
• OSiMA - Organization and Regulation of the Civil Security Market in Germany

The public perception is that the state is widely considered to be responsible for security. In practice, however, a combination of state and private responsibility for security is observed. In this paper, a normative justification for the allocation of responsibility between three groups of actors is developed from a regulatory economics perspective: the state, private households or companies, and private security service providers. The conceptual basis is the distinction between provision and production, against the background of the assumption that the debate on the “privatization of security” can only be conducted objectively with the help of this distinction. In addition, the paper pays more attention to the problem of potential repressiveness as a specific feature of goods and services in the field of security than is currently the case in the security economics literature.