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Jang, Hee Soun.

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Contracting out local government services to nonprofit organizations.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Contracting out local government services to nonprofit organizations./
Author:	Jang, Hee Soun.
Description:	139 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1526.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-04A.
Subject:	Political Science, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3216500
ISBN:	9780542660238

Contracting out local government services to nonprofit organizations.
Jang, Hee Soun.

Contracting out local government services to nonprofit organizations. - 139 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1526.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 2006.

This dissertation empirically tests theoretical arguments that contracting out municipal services results in lower service expenditures. Two research questions are investigated; what accounts for local government service provision and production decisions? And, to what extent do contracting out and the choice of sectors from which contractors are drawn influence levels of service expenditures by local governments? These questions are investigated by applying a transaction cost framework to develop testable hypotheses and explain fiscal impact of municipality's service production arrangements. The empirical analysis focuses on the decision to contract out services and the resulting cost savings (if any) that result from contracting out. Six service areas for which expected transaction costs are significant were selected for analysis. These services also vary in terms of their service characteristics based on the tangibleness of service outputs and the complexity of service products. The services examined are: (1) electric utilities, (2) fire protection, (3) police, (4) parks, (5) libraries, and (6) public health services.

ISBN: 9780542660238Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017391
Political Science, General.

Contracting out local government services to nonprofit organizations.
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520 $a The empirical results indicate that service specific characteristics are key determinants of contracting out decisions, the choice of sectors, and the cost savings realized from service production choices. Nonprofit production is concentrated in the softer social and human service areas. While some of the conventional thoughts on the inefficiency of government monopoly are consistently supported across all selected six services, the cost savings from private contracting to for-profit firms are only realized for electricity and fire protection service. Nonprofit organizations are an attractive option when municipalities face transaction cost incurred from difficulty in measurability of service outputs and high costs to monitor multiple dimensions of service quality. It has been found that independent nonprofit service market for lowering bidding price is important for local contracting out. This dissertation suggests that local governments may be able to partially overcome tradeoffs between cost and quality of publicly provided services by contracting out the delivery to nonprofit organizations.
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