An analysis of the joint board or county model as the strctural basis for effective Australian local
By: JOHNSON, Andrew
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Contributor(s): DOLLERY, Brian.
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ArticlePublisher: Carlton : Blackwell Publishers Asia Pty Ltd, June 2007Subject(s): Eficácia | Eficiência | Administração Federal | Alta Administração Pública | Reforma Administrativa | Conselho de Administração | Oceania | AustráliaAustralian Journal of Public Administration-AJPA 66, 2, p. 198-209Abstract: Australian policy-makers continue to rely on municipal amalgamation as the main engine of structural reform in local government, despite strong evidence that it diminishes participation and representation without improving service efficiency. Several promising, but neglected alternative models of structural reform have been developed, including ad hoc resource sharing models, Regional Organisations of Councils, virtual local government, and agency models. In an encouraging response to the recent policy of enforced council amalgamations in NSW, the Shires Association of NSW (2004) has recently proposed a `Joint Board model' of local governance and invited comment on this model. This article takes up this challenge and seeks to place the Joint Board model in conceptual context and evaluate its characteristics and simulated cost savings
Australian policy-makers continue to rely on municipal amalgamation as the main engine of structural reform in local government, despite strong evidence that it diminishes participation and representation without improving service efficiency. Several promising, but neglected alternative models of structural reform have been developed, including ad hoc resource sharing models, Regional Organisations of Councils, virtual local government, and agency models. In an encouraging response to the recent policy of enforced council amalgamations in NSW, the Shires Association of NSW (2004) has recently proposed a `Joint Board model' of local governance and invited comment on this model. This article takes up this challenge and seeks to place the Joint Board model in conceptual context and evaluate its characteristics and simulated cost savings
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