Metropolitan governance & service delivery approaches

Content for the week of April 22, 2024

Topics

• Contracting out
• Shared services
• Collaboration

Readings

• Bel, Germà, and Mildred E. Warner. “Inter-Municipal Cooperation and Costs: Expectations and Evidence.” (Bel and Warner 2015)
• Warner, Mildred. “Municipal Size, Resources, and Efficiency: Theoretical Bases for Shared Services and Consolidation.” (Warner 2015)
• Aldag, Austin M., and Mildred Warner. “Cooperation, Not Cost Savings: Explaining Duration of Shared Service Agreements.” (Aldag and Warner 2018)
• Bel, Germà, and Marianna Sebő. “Does Inter-Municipal Cooperation Really Reduce Delivery Costs? An Empirical Evaluation of the Role of Scale Economies, Transaction Costs, and Governance Arrangements.” (Bel and Sebő 2021)
• Kim, Serena Y., et al. “Updating the Institutional Collective Action Framework.” (Kim et al. 2022)

References

Aldag, Austin M., and Mildred Warner. 2018. “Cooperation, Not Cost Savings: Explaining Duration of Shared Service Agreements.” Local Government Studies 44 (3): 350–70.

Bel, Germà, and Marianna Sebő. 2021. “Does Inter-Municipal Cooperation Really Reduce Delivery Costs? An Empirical Evaluation of the Role of Scale Economies, Transaction Costs, and Governance Arrangements.” Urban Affairs Review 57 (1): 153–88. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087419839492.

Bel, Germà, and Mildred E. Warner. 2015. “Inter-Municipal Cooperation and Costs: Expectations and Evidence.” Public Administration 93 (1): 52–67.

Kim, Serena Y., William L. Swann, Christopher M. Weible, Thomas Bolognesi, Rachel M. Krause, Angela Y. S. Park, Tian Tang, Kiernan Maletsky, and Richard C. Feiock. 2022. “Updating the Institutional Collective Action Framework.” Policy Studies Journal 50 (1): 9–34.

Warner, Mildred. 2015. “Municipal Size, Resources, and Efficiency: Theoretical Bases for Shared Services and Consolidation.” In, edited by Alexander C. Henderson, 3–16. New York, NY: Routledge.