Download or read book Restructuring State and Local Services written by Arnold Raphaelson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-07-23 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under pressure from both the Federal government and private citizens, local and state governments are restructuring their services, including the areas of education, highway, and transportation. While the federal government wants to reassign responsibilities to local governments, voters want greater efficiency and lower taxes via privatization. This edited collection considers these pressures, the responses from state and local governments, and specific experiments in privatizing local services. The book's opening chapter presents an overview of the changing landscape, while the following chapters consider possibilities in both education and highway services. In education, interdistrict school choice and state-local structures are considered. Highway services are seen in federal-state and state-private relationships. Reporting on a variety of experiments, each chapter illustrates a type of service or arrangement for restructuring governmental services.
Download or read book Restructuring Local Government Finance in Developing Countries written by Roy W. Bahl and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining cutting-edge issues of international relevance in the ongoing redesign of the South African local government fiscal system, the contributors to this volume analyze the major changes that have taken place since the demise of apartheid. The 1996 Constitution and subsequent legislation dramatically redefined the public sector, mandating the development of democratic local governments empowered to provide a wide variety of key public services. However, the definition and implementation of new local functions and the supporting democratic decision-making and managerial capabilities are emerging more slowly than expected.
Download or read book Information Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Challenge of Local Governmental Reorganization written by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Restructuring Local Government Services written by Mildred Warner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustaining Innovation in South Gate written by Brent Keltner and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1996 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demands being placed on municipal governments have increased dramatically over the past several years. In the face of both budget constraints and an increased burden of public service delivery with the trend toward greater federalism, cities are being pressured to raise efficiency. Higher consumer expectations of service quality, the growing heterogeneity of urban areas, and the accelerating pace of economic change are, meanwhile, increasing demands on city governments' flexibility and responsiveness. A variety of organizational and management innovations are improving cities' ability to cope with this more challenging environment. These innovations include participatory strategic planning, business process improvement techniques, teaming and teamwork, effective use of information technology, and employee involvement and empowerment. Drawing on the literature on high-performing organizations, discussions with officials in innovative cities, and expert interviews, this report creates a framework for supporting innovation in South Gate. Other cities should be able to draw on elements of this framework to critically analyze their own operations.
Download or read book Restructuring Strategy for Local Government Enterprise written by Ahmad Setiawan Nuraya and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional autonomy in Indonesia has endorsed a great opportunities and interesting challenges, in the same time. While national/central government applied this important policy, regional (provincial and district/local) governments with potential local financial resources (natural resources, tourism, etc) assumed there will be a great 'pieces of cake' from central government. Unfortunately, poor local governments (with lack of locally potential financial resources) will be sore. In this phase, local government enterprise (LGE) is becoming strategic partner to be reviewed. Even it has been realized that LGE has important roles to provide basic public services, but most LGEs performed a poor performances. In most provinces, LGE is a unit for 'retired senior official' to be placed as 'the land of last resort', or as a political appointee position for political bargaining position. However, it is widely accepted and a common practices politically. Related to the main idea of regional autonomy, and its basic and natural roles, LGE should be strengthened in order to perform its optimum performance, which means best services for community and financial contribution.
Download or read book Local Government and the States Autonomy Politics and Policy written by David R. Berman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an overview of the legal, political, and broad intergovernmental environment in which relations between local and state units of government take place, the historical roots of the conflict among them, and an analysis of contemporary problems concerning local authority, local revenues, state interventions and takeovers, and the restructuring of local governments. The author pays special attention to local governmental autonomy and the goals and activities of local officials as they seek to secure resources, fend off regulations and interventions, and fight for survival as independent units. He looks at the intergovernmental struggle from the bottom up, but in the process examines a variety of political activities at the state level and the development and effects of several state policies. Berman finds considerable reason to be concerned about the viability and future of meaningful local government.
Download or read book Solutions for Federal State and Local Government Organizations written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fire Service and Local Government Restructuring written by Murray M. Jaros and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Restructuring Local Government written by Chester Ward Bain and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Local Government Restructuring Project of the Nelson A Rockefeller Institute of Government written by Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. Local Government Restructuring Project and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dynamics of Institutional Change written by Bruno Dente and published by Sage Publications (CA). This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western democracies have retained political legitimacy since 1945 by a continuous process of adaptation to changing socio-political circumstances. Most states have changed their institutional arrangements, and reorganized their systems of local government to some degree. This book explains local government change within the wider context of institutional change. It links theories of legitimacy and institutional change to the extensive empirical and historical literature on local government reorganization. It also differentiates between institutional change and reform. Structural or historical variables are shown to play a major role in explaining why and how both reform and change take place. In particular, the rise and decline of the welfare state - and the political and policy changes associated with this - is one of the most important points of departure in the analysis. The ideas shared by the policy community explain the roles played by actors involved in shaping local government change and reform. This provides the link between the macro (structural) dimension and empirical observation.
Download or read book Municipalities in Distress written by James Spiotto and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 50 State Survey of: (1) Rights and Remedies Provided by States to Investors, (2) State Supervision and Oversight Mechanisms of Financially Distressed Local Governments and (3) State Authorization of Municipalities to File Chapter 9 Bankruptcy
Download or read book Transforming Local Government written by Guy Hollis and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text focuses on the issues and challenges facing local government at the end of the 20th century. It suggests that fundamental and comprehensive transformation is called for; of which structural change is only a part. Part 1 discusses the context of the local government reorganization, and part 2 gives practical guidance on how to manage transition.
Download or read book Local Government Restructuring written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Restructuring the Local Economy written by Mike Geddes and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the ways in which local government is responding to industrial and technological restructuring, this text assesses local government policy initiatives in a range of industries including traditional industries such as coal mining and textiles; mass production manufacturing industries such as the motor industry and aerospace; and newer industries including such services as telecommunications, financial services and culture. In separate chapters each dealing with a specific sector, the authors survey industrial change and policy responses at the local level. The book draws upon relevant experience from Europe and the USA and concludes with a discussion of the likely effects on local policy of increasing European integration.
