Journal article
Should councils collaborate? Evaluating shared administration and tax services in English local government
- Abstract:
- Decentralized public organizations have many advantages, but can be inefficient due to suboptimal organizational size and duplication of activities. Selective inter-organizational collaboration may produce economies of scale without undoing the benefits of decentralization, assuming that co-ordination and re-organization costs are low. The authors tested this popular reform logic using data from all English councils, focusing on shared administration and tax collection. There were no significant benefits from either kind of collaboration.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/09540962.2019.1537704
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- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Journal:
- Public Money and Management More from this journal
- Volume:
- 39
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 26-36
- Publication date:
- 2019-01-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-03-28
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1467-9302
- ISSN:
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0954-0962
- Language:
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English
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pubs:844156
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pubs:844156
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844156
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2018-04-25
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- Copyright holder:
- Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- Copyright © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Routledge at https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2019.1537704
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