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Brian Dollery - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Chalk and Cheese: A Comparative Analysis of Local Government Reform Processes in New South Wales and Victoria
International Journal of Public Administration, 2017Co-Authors: Brian Dollery, Joseph DrewAbstract:A substantial empirical literature exists on the consequences of local Government Reform programs. However, much less effort has been directed at examining how Reform processes affect the outcomes ...
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inconsistent depreciation practice and public policymaking local Government Reform in new south wales
Australian Accounting Review, 2015Co-Authors: Joseph Drew, Brian DolleryAbstract:type="main"> Public policy based on numerical indicators – a form of ‘public management by numbers’ – has become commonplace across the world. Whereas a good deal is known about the deleterious effects of this type of policymaking – including ratcheting, output distortion and ‘gaming’ – unfortunately little attention has focused on the adverse local Government policy consequences of inconsistent depreciation accruals by local authorities. This paper seeks to address this gap in the empirical literature on local Government performance. After examining the use of accounting data by local Government policymakers, the paper reviews available empirical evidence of inconsistent depreciation practice both in Australia and abroad. We then consider the recent New South Wales (NSW) Independent Local Government Review Panel's use of accounting ratios as supporting evidence for boundary change in local Government as a case study of the adverse impact of inconsistent depreciation practice. The NSW experience clearly demonstrates the distortionary effects of empirical evidence resulting from significant variation in depreciation accruals by individual local councils. The paper concludes with an assessment of the options available to local Government policymakers wishing to obtain more accurate accounting accrual data for policy formulation purposes.
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inconsistent depreciation practice and public policymaking local Government Reform in new south wales
Australian Accounting Review, 2015Co-Authors: Joseph Drew, Brian DolleryAbstract:Public policy based on numerical indicators – a form of ‘public management by numbers’ – has become commonplace across the world. Whereas a good deal is known about the deleterious effects of this type of policymaking – including ratcheting, output distortion and ‘gaming’ – unfortunately little attention has focused on the adverse local Government policy consequences of inconsistent depreciation accruals by local authorities. This paper seeks to address this gap in the empirical literature on local Government performance. After examining the use of accounting data by local Government policymakers, the paper reviews available empirical evidence of inconsistent depreciation practice both in Australia and abroad. We then consider the recent New South Wales (NSW) Independent Local Government Review Panel's use of accounting ratios as supporting evidence for boundary change in local Government as a case study of the adverse impact of inconsistent depreciation practice. The NSW experience clearly demonstrates the distortionary effects of empirical evidence resulting from significant variation in depreciation accruals by individual local councils. The paper concludes with an assessment of the options available to local Government policymakers wishing to obtain more accurate accounting accrual data for policy formulation purposes.
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councils in cooperation shared services and australian local Government
2012Co-Authors: Brian Dollery, Bligh Grant, Michael A KorttAbstract:Part A: Local Government Reform in Australia Introduction Debate on Structural Reform Part B: Shared Services in Local Government Conceptual Perspectives on Shared Services Theoretical Perspectives on Shared Services Empirical Perspectives on Economies of Scale and Scope Empirical Evidence on Shared Services in Local Government Part C: Shared Services in Practice Regional Organisations of Council Strategic Alliances of Councils Vertical Shared Services Part D: Policy Implications Policy Implications References Index
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local Government Reform a comparative analysis of advanced anglo american countries
2008Co-Authors: Brian Dollery, Joseph Garcea, Edward C LesageAbstract:This book considers local Government Reform in a comparative perspective in advanced Anglo-American countries over the past two decades. The framework for the analysis focuses on the structural, functional, financial, jurisdictional and organizational/managerial pillars of municipal Reform in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland, the United States and Canada. The emphasis on these English-speaking common law democracies, which share a great many characteristics, facilitates an analysis of the essential features of local Government Reform programs and the common factors driving them.
Joseph Drew - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Chalk and Cheese: A Comparative Analysis of Local Government Reform Processes in New South Wales and Victoria
International Journal of Public Administration, 2017Co-Authors: Brian Dollery, Joseph DrewAbstract:A substantial empirical literature exists on the consequences of local Government Reform programs. However, much less effort has been directed at examining how Reform processes affect the outcomes ...
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inconsistent depreciation practice and public policymaking local Government Reform in new south wales
Australian Accounting Review, 2015Co-Authors: Joseph Drew, Brian DolleryAbstract:type="main"> Public policy based on numerical indicators – a form of ‘public management by numbers’ – has become commonplace across the world. Whereas a good deal is known about the deleterious effects of this type of policymaking – including ratcheting, output distortion and ‘gaming’ – unfortunately little attention has focused on the adverse local Government policy consequences of inconsistent depreciation accruals by local authorities. This paper seeks to address this gap in the empirical literature on local Government performance. After examining the use of accounting data by local Government policymakers, the paper reviews available empirical evidence of inconsistent depreciation practice both in Australia and abroad. We then consider the recent New South Wales (NSW) Independent Local Government Review Panel's use of accounting ratios as supporting evidence for boundary change in local Government as a case study of the adverse impact of inconsistent depreciation practice. The NSW experience clearly demonstrates the distortionary effects of empirical evidence resulting from significant variation in depreciation accruals by individual local councils. The paper concludes with an assessment of the options available to local Government policymakers wishing to obtain more accurate accounting accrual data for policy formulation purposes.
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inconsistent depreciation practice and public policymaking local Government Reform in new south wales
Australian Accounting Review, 2015Co-Authors: Joseph Drew, Brian DolleryAbstract:Public policy based on numerical indicators – a form of ‘public management by numbers’ – has become commonplace across the world. Whereas a good deal is known about the deleterious effects of this type of policymaking – including ratcheting, output distortion and ‘gaming’ – unfortunately little attention has focused on the adverse local Government policy consequences of inconsistent depreciation accruals by local authorities. This paper seeks to address this gap in the empirical literature on local Government performance. After examining the use of accounting data by local Government policymakers, the paper reviews available empirical evidence of inconsistent depreciation practice both in Australia and abroad. We then consider the recent New South Wales (NSW) Independent Local Government Review Panel's use of accounting ratios as supporting evidence for boundary change in local Government as a case study of the adverse impact of inconsistent depreciation practice. The NSW experience clearly demonstrates the distortionary effects of empirical evidence resulting from significant variation in depreciation accruals by individual local councils. The paper concludes with an assessment of the options available to local Government policymakers wishing to obtain more accurate accounting accrual data for policy formulation purposes.
John M Kamensky - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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federal Government Reform lessons from clinton s reinventing Government and bush s management agenda initiatives
Public Administration Review, 2008Co-Authors: Jonathan D Breul, John M KamenskyAbstract:Newly elected presidents oftentimes set out to Reform the executive branch. This has been the norm for more than 100 years, and indications are that the next president will follow this pattern. The authors have had firsthand experience over the past 15 years with White House–led Government Reform efforts. They provide their insights on President Bill Clinton’s reinventing Government initiative and President George W. Bush’s management agenda efforts. Based on their experience, they offer lessons to the next president’s team on what they might do to get a Reform effort started successfully and how to get Reform initiatives implemented and sustained.
Mildred E Warner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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beyond privatisation and cost savings alternatives for local Government Reform
Local Government Studies, 2018Co-Authors: Robert Hebdon, Mildred E WarnerAbstract:Unsatisfactory results from privatisation have caused local Governments to seek alternative Reforms. Inter-municipal cooperation, mixed public/private delivery and contract reversals are three alternatives that have gained traction in the last decade. These alternatives help local Governments manage markets for public service delivery as a dynamic process. They maximise Government/market complementarities and address a wider array of public goals beyond cost efficiency concerns. The alternative Reforms show how local Governments balance citizen, labour and community interests to ensure efficiency, coordination and stability in public service delivery.
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beyond privatisation and cost savings alternatives for local Government Reform
Local Government Studies, 2018Co-Authors: Germa Bel, Robert Hebdon, Mildred E WarnerAbstract:ABSTRACTUnsatisfactory results from privatisation have caused local Governments to seek alternative Reforms. Inter-municipal cooperation, mixed public/private delivery and contract reversals are th...
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reversing privatization rebalancing Government Reform markets deliberation and planning
Policy and Society, 2008Co-Authors: Mildred E WarnerAbstract:The last decades of the 20th century witnessed a profound experiment to increase the role of markets in local Government service delivery. However, that experiment has failed to deliver adequately on efficiency, equity or voice criteria. This has led to reversals. But this reverse privatization process is not a return to the direct public monopoly delivery model of old. Instead it heralds the emergence of a new balanced position which combines use of markets, deliberation and planning to reach decisions which may be both efficient and more socially optimal.
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local Government Reform privatisation and its alternatives
Local Government Studies, 2007Co-Authors: Robert Hebdon, Mildred E WarnerAbstract:Abstract Privatisation is only one of several alternatives for local Government Reform. Problems with lack of cost savings and the challenges of contract management have led local Government Reformers to explore other alternatives including municipal corporations, relational contracting and dynamic market management. Empirical analysis shows concerns with fiscal stress, efficiency, and managing political and citizen interests drive the Reform process more than ideology. We argue that a more comprehensive framework is needed that gives attention to a wider array of alternatives for institutional Reform.
Hans Thor Andersen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The emerging Danish Government Reform – centralised decentralisation
Urban Research & Practice, 2008Co-Authors: Hans Thor AndersenAbstract:Across Western Europe, a number of Governmental Reforms have been implemented and more recently many have been rejected. These Reforms are considered to be examples of adaptation to new global conditions; however, not all shifts in Governmental systems and organisation are a result of the logic of globalisation. The current implementation of a new local Government Reform in Denmark can be considered to be one such example. In each case, the specific circumstances and history of a country play a major role; there is no universal model for the transition to neoliberal state Reforms. To many observers, the nation state is being ‘hollowed out’ – simply squeezed from both the international and the subnational level as a result of globalisation and related processes. The Danish local Government Reform does not strengthen the metropolitan Copenhagen vis-a-vis other North European metropoles. Rather, the Reform seems to reduce the room for manoeuvre and in fact dismantles major parts of the city's strategic capac...
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the emerging danish Government Reform centralised decentralisation
Urban Research & Practice, 2008Co-Authors: Hans Thor AndersenAbstract:Across Western Europe, a number of Governmental Reforms have been implemented and more recently many have been rejected. These Reforms are considered to be examples of adaptation to new global conditions; however, not all shifts in Governmental systems and organisation are a result of the logic of globalisation. The current implementation of a new local Government Reform in Denmark can be considered to be one such example. In each case, the specific circumstances and history of a country play a major role; there is no universal model for the transition to neoliberal state Reforms. To many observers, the nation state is being ‘hollowed out’ – simply squeezed from both the international and the subnational level as a result of globalisation and related processes. The Danish local Government Reform does not strengthen the metropolitan Copenhagen vis-a-vis other North European metropoles. Rather, the Reform seems to reduce the room for manoeuvre and in fact dismantles major parts of the city's strategic capac...
