Municipal amalgamation reforms have been advocated as ways to improve efficiency,
reduce costs, and enhance capacity in local government service provision. Research on the …

I nstitutional collective action (ICA) dilemmas arise from the division or partitioning of
authority in which decisions by one government in one or more specific functional area …

Many emerging economies have experienced rapid urbanization in an unprecedented scale
and speed in the past few decades. While the urban expansion has led to the formation of …

Austerity and fiscal crisis make the search for cost‐saving reforms in local government more
critical. While cost savings from privatization have frequently proven ephemeral, inter …

The reallocation of authority upward, downward, and sideways from central states has
drawn attention from a growing number of scholars in political science. Yet beyond …

The Public Administration Theory Primer explores how the science and art of public
administration is definable, describable, replicable, and cumulative. The authors survey a …

Abstract Analysis of local government contracting decisions typically focuses on transactions
costs related to service characteristics, especially asset specificity and difficulty of contract …

Polycentric theory, as applied to sustainability policy adoption, contends that municipalities
will act independently to provide public services that protect the environment. Our multilevel …

This article presents a “second-generation” rational choice explanation for voluntary
regional governance. It identifies the interests that motivate interlocal collaboration and …

This article describes the institutional collective action (ICA) framework and its application to
the study of governance arrangements in metropolitan areas by focusing on the tools of …