Nonprofits as political failure nodes

When governments outsource major public‑service delivery to large nonprofits, those organizations become single points of political failure: fraud or operational breakdowns at a few contractors can create immediate multi‑billion dollar losses and catalyze electoral collapses for incumbents. The outsourcing model concentrates administrative risk, blurs accountability chains, and politicizes service delivery. — This reframes procurement and social‑service design as central democratic risks: who delivers basic public goods matters for political stability, not only for efficiency or ideology.