Alternative Service Delivery Strategies and Improvement of Local Government Productivity

Using four consecutive International City/County Management Association alternative service delivery arrangement surveys, this study explores the determinants of service shedding by local government in the United States. Our findings indicate that service shedding is fairly common, with almost 70% of jurisdictions experiencing at least one termination between 1992 and 1997. With regards to why jurisdictions shed services, we find that prior delivery mode is very influential. Specifically, services that were contracted out in the previous time period are much more likely to be dropped than are those that were produced in-house. We also find that the behavior of neighboring jurisdictions matters—if your neighbors tend to provide a service, you tend to continue to do so as well. We find little support for the idea that either budget stress or ideology is impactful in the decision to drop services.

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Adaptive Instruction: An Alternative Service Delivery Approach

Remedial and Special Education ◽

10.1177/074193259001100104 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 7-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Margaret C. Wang ◽

Nancy J. Zollers

Keyword(s):

Service Delivery ◽

Adaptive Instruction ◽

Alternative Service ◽

Alternative Service Delivery ◽

Delivery Approach

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Comparing Alternative Service Delivery Modes: Municipal Enterprises Require Special Consideration

Journal of Urban Affairs ◽

10.1111/j.1467-9906.1997.tb00497.x ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 275-289 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Theodore J. Stumm

Keyword(s):

Service Delivery ◽

Special Consideration ◽

Delivery Modes ◽

Alternative Service ◽

Alternative Service Delivery

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Enhancing accountability in public–private partnerships in South Africa

Southern African Business Review ◽

10.25159/1998-8125/5686 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 66-92 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

M C Fombad

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Service Delivery ◽

Public Private Partnerships ◽

Public Control ◽

The World ◽

Alternative Service ◽

Alternative Service Delivery ◽

Societal Problems

South Africa, like other developing countries, has joined other nations around the world in resorting to public–private partnerships (PPPs) as an integral strategy to improve its deeply rooted socio-economic, political, fiscal and societal problems and to meet the pressure of attaining the goals of national and international developmental projects. In spite of the reasons advanced for the importance of PPPs as an alternative service-delivery option, several doubts about the efficacy of accountability and suggestions that it may undermine public control have been expressed. Given the importance of accountability, this paper seeks to determine some approaches to enhance accountability in public–private partnerships in South Africa. It identifies some of the accountability challenges and suggests ways of overcoming them.

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