Efficient Local Government Service Provision
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Author | : Rhiannon Jerch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 67 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Contracting out |
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Local governments spend roughly $1.6 trillion per year to provide a variety of public services ranging from police and fire protection to public schools and public transit. However, we know little about public sector's productivity in delivering key services. To understand the productivity both over time and across space, we examine public bus service, which represents a standardized output for benchmarking the cost of local government service provision. There is significant dispersion across transit agencies in the operating cost per bus mile with the highest being more than three times as high as the lowest among top 20 largest cities by population. We estimate the cost savings from privatization and explore the political economy of why privatization rates are lower in high cost unionized areas. Our analysis finds that the full privatizaton could result in cost savings of $5.7 billion in 2011 and that the gain in economic efficiency from more closely aligning bus fares with production costs would be worth at least half a billion dollars.
Author | : Rhiannon Jerch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 67 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Carl W. Stenberg |
Publisher | : ICMA Press |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0873267095 |
Download Managing Local Government Services Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Managing Local Government Services, 3rd ed. is a comprehensive text on the subject of local government services relevant to local governments of all sizes. This edition is refocused and updated to include the demographic, economic, technology and cultural trends that affect the management of service delivery. New chapters discuss the shift from ¿government¿ to ¿governance,¿ alternative methods of service delivery, community development, and the five management practices that are fast becoming the standard for professional local government management.Each chapter lays out the manager¿s responsibilities in each service area, and provides effective policies, practices, and procedures. Short case examples give you a practical look at the goals, challenges, and solutions in the manager¿s world.
Author | : N. Joseph Cayer |
Publisher | : ICMA Publishing |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0873266307 |
Download The Effective Local Government Manager, 3rd Edition Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Effective Local Government Manager, 3rd Edition, reflects the rich history and modern reinvention of a profession that sprang up at the beginning of the twentieth century. What does it mean to be a local government manager in today’s world? What can a manager accomplish? What internal as well as external resources must the manager harness? What motivates the manager’s employers, colleagues, and employees? For the student contemplating a career as a manager in public service, The Effective Local Government Manager is almost obligatory reading. Many instructors have built introductory courses on local government management around The Effective Local Government Manager. For the young assistant in a city or county, or for the mid-career manager assessing new challenges, The Effective Local Government Manager offers insights on your role and how you can best serve your community. It explores the manager’s many roles and responsibilities—interacting with the community, the governing body, local government employees, and other governments. It offers the most up-to-date theory and practice of local government as well as tools of management. This book is used as a text in ICMA University's Emerging Leaders Development Program.
Author | : Marc Bendick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Municipal services |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michal Plaček |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 3030467589 |
Download Fiscal Decentralization Reforms Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book examines the impacts of fiscal decentralization reforms on the efficiency of local governments in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. By offering a comparative perspective and by applying econometric methods and regression models, it analyses various reform trajectories and their effects on individual CEE countries. Furthermore, the book discusses input and output indicators for evaluating the efficiency of municipalities. Readers will learn about the common features of these countries, the impact of path dependence, and future prospects for decentralization reforms. In closing, the book discusses modern management and administration methods, opportunities for cooperation between municipalities, co-creative service delivery, and other measures that could improve the efficiency of public service provision.
Author | : Santiago Lago-Peñas |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-07-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1782544305 |
Download The Challenge of Local Government Size Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In the efficient delivery of local public services, size matters. Many countries around the world have vertical government structures that are perceived as inefficient because of their high levels of jurisdictional fragmentation. This timely volume examines the different strategies used to address local government fragmentation and their observed results and consequences. Expert contributors in economics and political science offer a comprehensive breakdown of the issue of local jurisdiction fragmentation and provide recommendations for successful policy reform. Topics discussed include economies of scale, the costs and benefits of voluntary and forced amalgamation programs, the correlation between government size and corruption, privatization, and inter-municipal cooperation. A combination of theory and empirical evidence provides depth and makes this book an invaluable addition to the literature. Economists, public administrators and political scientists will find much of interest in this innovative volume, as will professors, students and international institutions with an interest in local government structure and reform.
Author | : Brian Dollery |
Publisher | : Macmillan Education AU |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780732929046 |
Download Australian Local Government Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The last few years have seen unprecedented change taking place in the Australian local government arena. In all states the functions and responsibilities of local authorities have been subjected to extensive reform. New legislation has redefined the role of councillors. Local governments have been required to introduce more efficient and effective management practices and become more open and responsive to their constituencies. The scope of traditional regulatory practices has been altered and councils forced to develop a competitive environment for the provision of services. The place of local authorities in the intergovernmental landscape has also changed. Different forms of interaction between Commonwealth, state and local government are evolving along with the emergence of new funding strategies to encourage a regional focus. This is the first book to offer a detailed discussion of the reforms that have taken place, and at the same time provide an informative and readable analysis for practitioners and students of government, politics and public sector management.
Author | : John Stewart |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 1989-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349201790 |
Download The Future of Local Government Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Looking at the future of local government, this book examines the different changes, such as community charge and other financial changes, housing reforms, education reforms services, local democracy and other problems within the local government.
Author | : Bhaskar Chakrabarti |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Decentralization in government |
ISBN | : 9788125063087 |
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