Factors influencing pecial purpose service delivery among counties
By: FARMER, Jayce L
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ArticlePublisher: Armonk, NY : M.E. Sharpe, jun. 2010Subject(s): Administração Municipal | Autonomia Administrativa | Prestação de Serviços | Serviço PúblicoPublic Performance & Management Review 33, 4, p. 535-554Abstract: Little systematic research has been conducted that places county-level environments at the center of questions about why general purpose governments rely on special purpose service delivery. This paper, which focuses on special district formations within county-level environments between 2002 and 2007, reveals a conditional link between restrictions on functional and fiscal autonomy. Prior research shows that special district proliferation among counties is motivated by state-imposed constraints on their abilities to expand service choices. However, this finding is only realized under the condition that county-level governments have less binding restrictions imposed on their fiscal autonomy. Greater pressures for county-level governments to function as full-scale service providers lead to the increasing existence of special districts but only when counties have more freedom to exercise fiscal authority
Little systematic research has been conducted that places county-level environments at the center of questions about why general purpose governments rely on special purpose service delivery. This paper, which focuses on special district formations within county-level environments between 2002 and 2007, reveals a conditional link between restrictions on functional and fiscal autonomy. Prior research shows that special district proliferation among counties is motivated by state-imposed constraints on their abilities to expand service choices. However, this finding is only realized under the condition that county-level governments have less binding restrictions imposed on their fiscal autonomy. Greater pressures for county-level governments to function as full-scale service providers lead to the increasing existence of special districts but only when counties have more freedom to exercise fiscal authority
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