引言:作为宪法挑战的民营化在公共生活领域,民营化是一个被激烈讨论且深富争议的话题。一般的讨论路径或者指向经济视角,聚焦于效率问题;或者着重于社会视角,就社会服务的质量以及穷人获得服务的能力展开讨论。而本文旨在沿着另一种维度来对这一主题加以阐发,即从宪法的视角,集中探讨民营化对适用于重要社会服务运作的宪法标准可能产生的影响。在此,我们将讨论作为这些服务“消费者”的公民所享有的宪法权利。例如,当服 Introduction: Privatization as a Constitutional Challenge Privatization is a topic of intense discussion and controversy in the field of public life. The general discussion path either points to an economic perspective, focusing on efficiency issues or focusing on the social perspective to discuss the quality of social services and the ability of the poor to access services. The purpose of this article is to elaborate on this theme along another dimension, from a constitutional perspective, focusing on the likely impact of privatization on constitutional standards applicable to the operation of key social services. Here, we will discuss the constitutional rights enjoyed by citizens of these services as “consumers.” For example, when serving