The Influence of Management on the Cost of Fire Protection

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 71-92

  Donahue, Amy K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 2142662071     PISSN: 02768739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pam.10179     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (46)

1. Allison, G. T. (1983). Public and private management: Are they fundamentally alike in all unimportant respects? In J. L. Perry & K. L. Kraemer (Eds.), Public management. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield.
2. Barnard, C. I. (1948). The functions of the executive. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
3. Baumol, W. (1967). Macroeconomics of unbalanced growth: The anatomy of urban crisis. American Economic Review, 57, 415-426.
4. Bradford, D. F., Malt, R. A., & Oates, W. E. (1969). The rising cost of local public services: Some evidence and reflections. National Tax Journal, 22(2), 185-202.
5. Broom, C., & McGuire, L. (1995). Performance-based government models: Building a track record. Public Budgeting and Finance, 15(4), 3-17.
6. Brudney, J. L., & Duncombe, W. D. (1992). An economic evaluation of paid, volunteer, and mixed staffing options for public services. Public Administration Review, 52(5), 474-481.
7. Clark, F. E. (1982). Fire safety in rural America. Fire Journal 40/41, 105-106.
8. Cohen, S. (1993). Defining and measuring effectiveness in public management. Public Productivity and Management Review, 17, 45-57.
9. Cohen, S., & Eimicke, W. (1995). The new effective public manager: Achieving success in a changing government. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
10. Drucker, P. F. (1974). Management: Tasks, responsibilities, practices. New York: Harper Business.
11. Duncombe, W. (1991). Demand for local public services revisited: The case of fire protection. Public Finance Quarterly, 19, 412-436.
12. Duncombe, W. (1992). Cost and factor substitution in the provision of local fire services. Review of Economics and Statistics, 74, 180-184.
13. Duncombe, W., & Brudney, J. (1995). The optimal mix of volunteer and paid staff in local governments: An application to municipal fire departments. Public Finance Quarterly, 23, 356-384.
14. Duncombe, W., & Yinger, J. (1993). An analysis of returns to scale in public production with an application to fire protection. Journal of Public Economics, 52, 49-72.
15. Greene, W. H. (2000). Econometric analysis, 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
16. Gujarati, D. N. (1995). Basic econometrics, 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.
17. Gulick, L. (1937). Notes on the theory of organization. In L. Gulick & L. Urwick (Eds.), Papers on the science of administration (pp. 1-45). New York: Institute of Public Administration.
18. Hall, J. R., Jr. (1993). The U.S. fire problem overview report through 1982: Leading causes and other patterns and trends. Quincy, MA: National Fire Protection Association.
19. Hanushek, E. A. (1986). The economics of schooling: Production and efficiency in public schools. Journal of Economic Literature, 24, 1141-1177.
20. Hardy, M. A. (1993). Regression with dummy variables. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
21. Hatry, H., & Wholey, J. (1992). The case for performance monitoring. Public Administration Review, 52(6), 604-611.
22. Hatry, H. P., Blair, L. H., Fisk, D. M., Greiner, J. M., & Hall, J. R., Jr. (Eds.) (1992). Fire protection. In How effective are your community services? Procedures for measuring their quality, 2nd ed. Washington, DC: International City/County Management Association & The Urban Institute.
23. Heinrich, C. (1999). Do government bureaucrats make effective use of performance management information? Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 9, 363-393.
24. Holmes, M., & Shand, D. (1995). Management reform: Some practitioner perspectives on the past ten years. Governance, 8(4), 551-578.
25. ICMA [International City/County Management Association], & The Urban Institute. (1998). Comparative performance measurement: FY 1996 data report. Washington, DC: ICMA & The Urban Institute.
26. Ingraham, P. W., & Donahue, A. K. (2000). Dissecting the black box revisited: A framework for analyzing government management performance. In L. E. Lynn, Jr. (Ed.), Models and methods for the empirical study of governance (pp. 292-318). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
27. Ingraham, P. W., & Kneedler, A. E. (2000). Dissecting the black box: Toward a model and measures of government management performance. In J. L. Brudney, L. J. O'Toole, Jr., & H. G. Rainey (Eds.) (pp. 235-252). Advancing public management: New developments in theory, methods, and practice. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
28. Jennings, C. R. (1996). Urban residential fires: An empirical analysis of building stock and socioeconomic characteristics for Memphis, Tennessee. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation.
29. Karter, M. J., Jr., & Donner, A. (1978). The effect of demographics on fire rates. Fire Journal, 72, 53-65.
30. Lynn, L. E. (1997). In government, does management matter? Explain, Panel proposal for the Forth National Public Management Research Conference, University of Georgia, Athens, October 30-November 1.
31. Lynn, L. E., & Heinrich, C. (Eds.) (2000). Governance and performance: New perspectives. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
32. Munson, M. J., & Oates, W. E. (1983). Community characteristics and the incidence of fire: An empirical analysis. In C. Rapkin (Ed.), The social and economic consequences of residential fires (pp. 61-78). Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath.
33. Murnane, R. J., & Nelson, R. R. (1984). Production and innovation when techniques are tacit. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 5, 353-373.
34. Newcomer, K. (Ed.) (1997). Using performance measurement to improve public and nonprofit programs. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
35. NFDC [National Fire Data Center] (2002). Facts on fire. (National Fire Incident Reporting System data collected by the U. S. Fire Administration of the Federal Emergency Management Agency). Available at: 〈http://www.usfa.fema. gov/public/factsheets/facts.shtm〉, accessed August 13, 2003.
36. OFPC [Office of Fire Prevention and Control] (1999a). Fire in New York: 1997. Albany, NY: OFPC.
37. OFPC [Office of Fire Prevention and Control] (1999b). 1997-1998 Fire statistics. Available at: 〈http://www.dos.state.ny.us/fire/firewww. html〉; accessed August 13, 2003.
38. OFPC [Office of Fire Prevention and Control] (2000). New York State fire resources. Albany, NY: OFPC. Available at: 〈http://www.dos.state.ny.us/ fire/firewww〉; accessed August 13, 2003.
39. O'Toole, L. J. (1997). Different public managements? Implications of structural context in hierarchies and networks. Presented at the 4th National Public Management Research Conference, University of Georgia, Athens, October 30-November 1.
40. O'Toole, L. J., & Meier, K. J. (2000). Modeling the impact of public management: Implications of structural context. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 9, 505-526.
41. Rainey, H. G. (1999). Understanding and managing public organizations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
42. Schaenman, P., Hal, J. R., Schainblatt, A. H., Swartz, J. A., & Karter, M. J. (1977). Procedures for improving the measurement of local fire protection effectiveness. Boston: National Fire Protection Association.
43. Schein, E. H. (1992). Organizational culture and leadership, 2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
44. Sternlieb, G., & Burchell, R. (1973). Fires in abandoned buildings. Fire Journal, 67, 24-31.
45. Studenmund, A. H. (1997). Using econometrics: A practical guide, 3rd ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
46. Swiss, J. E. (1991). Public management systems: Monitoring and managing government performance. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.