California county administrators as sellers and brokers of interlocal cooperation
By: ZEEMERING, Eric S
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ArticlePublisher: Georgia : Carl Vinson Institute of Government of the University of Georgia, 2009State and Local Government Review 41, 3, p. 166-181Abstract: County administrators occupy a unique position from which to practive the concept of administrative conjunction. This article reports data on interlocal service agreements by cities and counties in California and evaluates the extent to which county administrators support two conjunctive roles: selling services to local governments through interlocal agreements and brokering agreements among other local governments. County administrators' support for administrative conjunction may be limited by their attitudes toward intergovernmental relations, tenure in office, existing contracting patterns, and other features of the local market for public goods. This study finds that levels of support for broker and seller roles are distinct, highlighting the need for more detailed measures of administrative support for intelectual cooperation.
County administrators occupy a unique position from which to practive the concept of administrative conjunction. This article reports data on interlocal service agreements by cities and counties in California and evaluates the extent to which county administrators support two conjunctive roles: selling services to local governments through interlocal agreements and brokering agreements among other local governments. County administrators' support for administrative conjunction may be limited by their attitudes toward intergovernmental relations, tenure in office, existing contracting patterns, and other features of the local market for public goods. This study finds that levels of support for broker and seller roles are distinct, highlighting the need for more detailed measures of administrative support for intelectual cooperation.
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