The delivery of clean drinking water and the treatment of wastewater are critical public
services, and in the United States, they are provided by a complex system of federal, state …

Managing financial resources is one of the most important responsibilities of every
organization; however, the literature still cannot provide an answer to an important question …

Scholars and policy makers alike frequently promote drinking water system consolidation as
a solution to the longstanding struggles of small water systems and the related …

Identifying and explaining change in the structure of central state bureaucracies and the
determinants of survival of individual public organizations are two closely related areas of …

Much research following Kaufman's classic study Are Government Organizations Immortal?
has investigated the claim that government agencies enjoy great security and long life. Less …

Local governments operate in contexts that significantly vary in their complexity, turbulence,
and munificence. Such variations in context have important implications for organizational …

Existing research identifies numerous organizational and contextual covariates that
influence how public sector service organizations perform. In the context of drinking water …

Most studies in collaborative governance examine system-level or agency-level drivers of
the horizontal dimension of collaboration, that is, the specific forms of collaboration among …

Special districts are an increasingly important part of the local government equation in the
United States, representing over forty percent of local governments. The spread of these …

This article assesses the impacts of bottom-up local governing institutions relative to top-
down bureaucracies in local service delivery. Community services districts (CSDs) in …