Restructuring State and Local Services: Ideas, Proposals, and Experiments

by Arnold Raphaelson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275949426
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/23/1998
Series:	Privatizing Government: An Interdisciplinary Series
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

ARNOLD H. RAPHAELSON is Professor of Economics at Temple University. A specialist in public finance, he has written about property taxation, public programs in health economics and treatment programs.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Arnold H. Raphaelson
Issues in Shifts of Public Goods Production by Richard E. Bernstein and Arnold H. Raphaelson
Interdistrict School Choice in a Metropolitan Setting: Characteristics and Consequences by Judith C. Stull and William J. Stull
Emerging Opportunities for Public-Private Partnerships in Highway Development by Joseph M. Giglio, Jr.
A Wave of Privatization Efforts by Ronald W. Jensen
The Political Economy of Privatization by Philip K. Porter and James F. Dewey
Privatization in State and Local Government by E. S. Savas
Piecemeal Privatization: The U.S. Domestic Transportation Example by Duane S. Windsor
Privatizing State and Local Government Services: The Role of Not-for-Profit Organizations by Thomas A. Reiner
Privatizing Wine and Spirits Distribution in Pennsylvania by Andrew J. Buck
Index

Editorial Reviews

Presents varied views of how the production of state and local government services is being restructured. Topics include interdistrict school choice in a metropolitan setting, emerging opportunities for public-private partnerships in highway development, the political economy of privatization, privatizing state and local government services, the US domestic transportation example, and privatizing wine and spirits distribution in Pennsylvania. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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