Privatization of municipal services in america's largest cities
By: DILGER, Robert Jay
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Contributor(s): MOFFETT, Randolph R | STRUYK, Linda.
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ArticlePublisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, jan./feb.1997Public administration review: PAR 57, 1, p. 21-26Abstract: Thanks in lange part to three nationwide surveys sponsored by the international cityl couty management association in 1982, 1988, and 1992, we know a gret deal about the extent of municipal privatization in the united states. These surveys, however, were not designed to explore the various nuaces of municipal privatization, such as the extent of their satisfaction with privatization, why cities choose to privatize services, the extent to which privatization reduces service costs and improves service delivery, how privatization affects employee's compensation packages, how cities monitor the quality and effectiveness of privatozed services, and what lessons city officials have learned from their privatization experiences. The authors fill this void in the literature by asking these questions and more of city officials in america's largest cities. Among their many findings, they discovered tha privatization is now an accepted, alternative means of delivering municipal services throughout the united states, it is by means viewed as a panacea.
Thanks in lange part to three nationwide surveys sponsored by the international cityl couty management association in 1982, 1988, and 1992, we know a gret deal about the extent of municipal privatization in the united states. These surveys, however, were not designed to explore the various nuaces of municipal privatization, such as the extent of their satisfaction with privatization, why cities choose to privatize services, the extent to which privatization reduces service costs and improves service delivery, how privatization affects employee's compensation packages, how cities monitor the quality and effectiveness of privatozed services, and what lessons city officials have learned from their privatization experiences. The authors fill this void in the literature by asking these questions and more of city officials in america's largest cities. Among their many findings, they discovered tha privatization is now an accepted, alternative means of delivering municipal services throughout the united states, it is by means viewed as a panacea.
Public administration review PAR
Jan./Feb. 1997 Volume 57 Number 1
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