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Restructuring State and Local Services

Ideas, Proposals, and Experiments

Arnold H. Raphaelson, ed

Under pressure from both the Federal government and private citizens, local and state governments are restructuring their services, including the areas of education, highway, and transportation. While the federal government wants to reassign responsibilities to local governments, voters want greater efficiency and lower taxes via privatization. This edited collection considers these pressures, the responses from state and local governments, and specific experiments in privatizing local services.

The book's opening chapter presents an overview of the changing landscape, while the following chapters consider possibilities in both education and highway services. In education, interdistrict school choice and state-local structures are considered. Highway services are seen in federal-state and state-private relationships. Reporting on a variety of experiments, each chapter illustrates a type of service or arrangement for restructuring governmental services.

$59.95. 160 pages.
ISBN: 0-275-94942-7.
Publication date: 1998.

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Contents

1. Introduction
Arnold H. Raphaelson

2. Issues in Shifts of Public Goods Production
Richard E. Bernstein and Arnold H. Raphaelson

3. Interdistrict School Choice in a Metropolitan Setting: Characteristics and Consequences
Judith C. Stull and William J. Stull

4. Emerging Opportunities for Public-Private Partnerships in Highway Development
Joseph M. Giglio, Jr.

5. A Wave of Privatization Efforts
Ronald W. Jensen

6. The Political Economy of Privatization
Philip K. Porter and James F. Dewey

7. Privatization in State and Local Government
E. S. Savas

8. Piecemeal Privatization: The U.S. Domestic Transportation Example
Duane S. Windsor

9. Privatizing State and Local Government Services: The Role of Not-for-Profit Organizations
Thomas A. Reiner

10. Privatizing Wine and Spirits Distribution in Pennsylvania
Andrew J. Buck

Editor and Contributors

Dr. Arnold H. Raphaelson is Professor of Economics at Temple University. A specialist in public finance, he has written in the areas of health economics and the economics of addiction as well as on the subjects of property taxation and intergovernmental relations.

Richard E. Bernstein is Associate Professor of Economics at Temple University. He is a specialist in urban economics and finance and has written in these fields, with most recent papers on privatization and on property taxation.

Andrew J. Buck is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Temple University. A specialist in econometric analysis, he has written extensively on the analysis of criminal behavior and on issues related to administration of justice and privatization, among other issues.

James F. Dewey has taught at the University of South Florida. Specialist in industrial organization and public economics, he has written papers on voting strategies, education, and theories of regulation.

Joseph M. Giglio, Jr. is Professor of Strategy at Northwestern University and is chairman of Apogee Research, Inc. and of DuBois Group International, L.L.C. He has held a number of senior management positions in prominent financial firms, with the federal government, New York City, and New York State, and has chaired a U.S. Senate Commission on potential state and local government investment in infrastructure.

Ronald W. Jensen was Public Works Director of Phoenix, Arizona, from 1978 to 1996; he is now president of Ron Jensen Associates, a consulting firm for local government management. He has developed innovative programs for Phoenix and is known nationally and internationally for his work in competitive privatization.

Philip K. Porter is Professor of Eonomics at the University of South Florida. He is associate editor of Advances in the Economics of Sport and is a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis.

Thomas A. Reiner is Professor of Regional Science and of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written numerous research reports and articles on philanthropy and the not-for-profit sector, public policy, local, and regional planning.

E. S. Savas is Professor of Public Affairs of Baruch College at the City University, where he directs the Public Policy Program of the School of Public Affairs. One of the pioneers in the field of privatization, he has written eight books and 110 articls and has worked in forty-one countries for government, international and private agencies. A member of the New York State Privatization Council, he is also an elected member of a suburban New York Borough Council and thus serves also as Fire Commissioner and as a member of the Environmental and Welfare Committees.

Judith C. Stull is Associate Professor of Sociology at La Salle University and Senior Research Associate at the Temple Universtity Center for Research in Human Development and Education. She has written numerous articles on the sociology of education and on technology and teaching and is the editor of SCAN, Sociology and Computers: A Newsletter.

William J. Stull is Professor of Economics and was Associate Dean of the School of Business and Management of Temple University and is a Senior Research Associate at the Mid-Atlantic Laboratory for Student Success. He has written extensively on urban economics, the economics of education and the economy of the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

Duane S. Windsor is Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Management at Rice University. He has published five books and numerous papers on social issues in management, business strategy, and public fiscal management, including urban development policies, transportation financing, and privatization strategies.

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