BYRNES, Joel.
Local government failure in Australia? An empirical analysis of New South Wales
- Oxford : Blackwell Publishers Limited, September 2002
The complexities of contemporary local governance in Australia and other advanced democracies provide social scientists with significant theoretical and empirical challenges. Drawing on recent developments, including public choice theory, economists have sought to develop taxonomic systems of government failure specifically tailored to local government circumstances. This paper seeks to extend the Dollery and Wallis (2001b) entrepreneurship. The paper then attempts to determine the empirical validity of the augmented taxonomy by examining it in the context of NWW local government