Inter-Local Cooperation in a Metropolitan Area

Marando, Vincent L.

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“…Evidence from US metropolitan areas reinforces that differences in social rank are significant barriers to interlocal cooperation (Friesema, 1971;Marando, 1968;Williams et al, 1965). Central cities and suburbs that share social characteristics, for example, are more likely to forge interlocal alliances than are central cities and suburbs with dissimilar attributes.…”

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Regional Impulses

Foster

1997

Journal of Urban Affairs

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Spurred by fiscal pressure, persistent city-suburban disparities, and the imperatives of the global economy, public and academic interest in metropolitan regionalism is as vigorous now as it was in the 1950s. The resurgence of interest compels analysis in this article of I0 regional impulses-natural resource, macroeconomic, centrality, growth, social, fiscal, equity, political, legal, and historical-the operation of which determine regional outcomes, such as regional service delivery, partnerships, and practices, in metropolitan areas. A case study of regional impulses in the Buffalo metropolitan area jinds that fiscal, legal, political, and historical impulses are most salient in influencing regional outcomes. The study demonstrates the utility of the regional impulses framework for comparative metropolitan analysis and understanding why some regionsfunction more regionally than others.

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Section: Social Impulsesmentioning

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Regional Impulses

Foster

1997

Journal of Urban Affairs

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“…In the latter half of the 20th century, scholars of public administration and local governance scrutinized the provision and production choices of local governments, studying the correlates of contracting with external producers in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors (e.g., Morgan, Hirlinger, & England, 1988; Oakerson, 1999; Stein, 1990). Some investigations focused attention on a subset of external productions relationships—contracts between local governments, variously labeled interlocal contracts, interlocal agreements, or government-to-government contracts (e.g., Friesema, 1970; Marando, 1968; Morgan & Hirlinger, 1991). For clarity, this research will use the term interlocal contract to refer to contract relationships between a municipality and any other unit of local government.…”

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Why Terminate? Exploring the End of Interlocal Contracts for Police Service in California Cities

Zeemering

2017

The American Review of Public Administration

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With the recent growth in interlocal contracts for municipal service delivery, insufficient attention has been given to city governments that choose to terminate interlocal contracts. The termination of interlocal contracts deserves scrutiny because theory points to multiple possible explanations for service change. This research examines the termination of interlocal contracts for police service delivery by California cities between 2001 and 2010. Public documents from the nine cities that terminated interlocal contracts are analyzed to assess rationale for termination. The stated reasons for termination include problems related to community responsiveness, the contract relationship, local control, service cost, service levels, and staffing. Grounded theory is advanced through analysis of the nine cities. The research refines our understanding of how cities weigh the costs and benefits of in-house production versus production through interlocal contract. While contract failure is evident in some cities, termination may also be explained as a process of vertical integration and service expansion. The research refines theories about local government service delivery and informs the practice of interlocal contract management.

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“…ILAs are of both practical and theoretical use. ILAs have intrigued scholars for many years because they represent conscious efforts to organize public goods and services on a scale that is different than traditional lines of local government incorporation and jurisdiction (Friesema, 1971; Marando, 1968; McGinnis, 1999; Morgan & Hirlinger, 1991; Oakerson, 1999; Smith, 1979; Stewart & Ketcham, 1941). Recently, new energies have been devoted to explaining the adoption of ILAs as a local government service production choice, as well as their patterns of use (e.g., Andrew, 2009a; Brown, 2008; Carr, Gerber, & Lupher, 2009; Carr, LeRoux, & Shrestha, 2009; Lackowiska, 2009; LeRoux & Carr, 2007; LeSage, McMillan, & Hepburn, 2008; Matkin & Frederickson, 2009; Steiner, 2003; Thurmaier & Wood, 2002; Visser, 2002; Wood, 2006, 2008).…”

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The Problem of Democratic Anchorage for Interlocal Agreements

Zeemering

2011

The American Review of Public Administration

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More attention must be given to the performance of interlocal agreements (ILAs) as they continue to grow in popularity as a mode of service provision in U.S. cities. This study scrutinizes the democratic performance of ILAs, drawing theoretical insights from the literature on network governance. Because ILAs shift service responsibility from individual cities to multijurisdictional arrangements, these tools may lead to complaints about the responsiveness of the service to the public in the individual units served by the multijurisdictional arrangement. Thus, democratic anchorage is central to assessments of ILA performance. This study evaluates democratic anchorage by identifying concerns with ILAs in interviews with a sample of local elected officials in Michigan. The concerns then are discussed in the context of the institutional collective action framework, a theoretical foundation that has become popular for explaining the emergence of ILAs and regional cooperation.

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Inter-Local Cooperation in a Metropolitan Area

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Regional Impulses

Why Terminate? Exploring the End of Interlocal Contracts for Police Service in California Cities

The Problem of Democratic Anchorage for Interlocal Agreements

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