Civic government or market-based governance? The limits of privatization for rural local governments

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 26, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 133-143

  Warner, Mildred E ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Inequality; Markets; Privatization; Rural development

Indexed keywords

EID: 59649125745     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-008-9181-6     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. Bel, Germà, and Mildred E. Warner. 2008a. Local privatization and costs: A review of empirical evidence. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 26 (1): 104-109.
2. Bel, Germà, and Mildred E. Warner. 2008b. Does privatization of solid waste and water services reduce costs? A review of empirical studies. Resources, Conservation & Recycling 52: 1337-1348.
3. Boyne, George A. 1998. The determinants of variations in local service contracting - garbage in, garbage out? Urban Affairs Review 34 (1): 150-163.
4. Brenner, Neil. 2004. New state spaces: Urban governance and the rescaling of statehood. Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press.
5. Brown, David L., and Mildred E. Warner. 1991. Persistent low-income nonmetropolitan areas in the United States: Some conceptual challenges for policy development. Policy Studies Journal 19 (2): 22-41.
6. Brown, David, and Louis Swanson. 2003. Challenges for rural America in the twenty-first century. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press.
7. City/County Data Book. 1994. Regional economic information system. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia. http://fisher.lib.Virginia.EDU/ccdb/. Accessed 6 October 2008.
8. Clark, Helen. 2005. Patterson oration: Helen Clark speaks at ANSSOG. Transcript from 6 May 2004. Carlton, Australia: Australian and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG). http://www.anzsog.edu.au/images/ docs/news/Patterson_Oration.pdf. Accessed 6 October 2008.
9. Cohen, John M., and Stephen B. Peterson. 1999. Administrative decentralization: Strategies for developing countries. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press and United Nations.
10. Davies, Steve. 2007. Politics and markets: The case of UK municipal waste management. Paper presented at the Association of Public Policy and Management conference, Washington, DC.
11. Denhardt, J.V., and R.B. Denhardt. 2003. The new public service: Serving, not steering. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
12. Dewees, Sarah, Linda Labao, and Louis E. Swanson. 2003. Local economic development in an age of devolution: The question of rural localities. Rural Sociology 68 (2): 182-206.
13. Donahue, John D. 1997. Disunited states. New York, NY: Basic Books.
14. Economic Report of the President. 2005. Table B-7: Chain-type price indexes for gross domestic product, 1959-2004 Government consumption expenditures and gross investment/State and Local. In Economic Report of the President, 219. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office.
15. Entwistle, T. 2005. Why are local authorities reluctant to externalise (and do they have good reason)? Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 23 (2): 191-206.
16. Frug, Gerald E. 1999. City making: Building communities without building walls. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
17. WTO. 1995. General agreement on trade in services. Geneva, Switzerland: World Trade Organization. http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/ 26-gats.pdf. Accessed 6 October 2006.
18. Gerbasi, Jennifer, and Mildred E. Warner. 2007. Privatization, public goods and the ironic challenge of free trade agreements. Administration and Society 39 (2): 127-149.
19. Granovetter, Mark. 1985. Economic action, social structure and embeddedness. American Journal of Sociology 91: 481-510.
20. Hefetz, Amir, and Mildred E. Warner. 2004. Privatization and its reverse: Explaining the dynamics of the government contracting process. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 14 (2): 171-190.
21. Hefetz, Amir, and Mildred E. Warner. 2007. Beyond the market vs. planning dichotomy: Understanding privatisation and its reverse in US cities. Local Government Studies 33 (4): 555-572.
22. Hipp, Magdalena, and Mildred E. Warner. 2008. Market forces for the unemployed? Training vouchers in Germany and the US. Social Policy and Administration: An International Journal of Policy and Research 42 (1): 77-101.
23. Hirsch, W.Z. 1995. Factors important in local governments' privatization decisions. Urban Affairs Review 31 (2): 226-243.
24. International City County Management Association. 1992, 1997 and 2002. Survey of alternative service delivery. Washington, DC: ICMA.
25. International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). 2001. Public rights, public problems: A guide to NAFTA's controversial chapter on investor rights. Winnipeg: IISD and World Wildlife Fund.
26. Jessop, Bob. 1997. The entrepreneurial city: Re-imaging localities, redesigning economic governance or restructuring capital. In Transforming cities: Contested governance and new spatial divisions, ed. Nick Jewson and Susanne MacGregor, 28-41. London: Routledge.
27. Johnson, Kenneth W., John P. Pelissero, David B. Holien, and Michael T. Maly. 1995. Local government fiscal burden in nonmetropolitan America. Rural Sociology 60 (3): 381-398.
28. Katz, M.B. 2001. The price of citizenship: Redefining America's welfare state, 1st ed. New York: Metropolitan Books.
29. Kodrzycki, Yolanda K. 1994. Privatization of local public services: Lessons for New England. New England Economic Review, May/June: 31-46.
30. Lobao, Linda, Jamie Rulli, and Lawrence A. Brown. 1999. Macro-level theory and local-level inequality: Industrial structure, institutional arrangements, and the political economy of redistribution, 1970 and 1990. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89 (4): 571-601.
31. Lowery, David. 1998. Consumer sovereignty and quasi-market failure. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 8 (2): 137-172.
32. Lyson, Thomas A. 2004. Civic agriculture: Reconnecting farm, food, and community. Medford, M: Tufts University.
33. Lyson, Thomas A., and Charles Tolbert. 1993. Small manufacturing and civic welfare in nonmetropolitan counties: A regional comparison. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.
34. MacLeod, Gordon. 2001. New regionalism reconsidered: Globalization and the remaking of political economic space. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 50 (2): 804-829.
35. Nalbandian, John. 2005. Professionals and the conflicting forces of administrative modernization and civic engagement. American Review of Public Administration. 35 (4): 311-326.
36. Niskanen, William. 1971. Bureaucracy and representative government. Chicago: Aldine-Atherton.
37. Oates, W.E. 1998. The economics of fiscal federalism and local finance. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
38. Osborne, David E., and Ted Gaebler. 1992. Reinventing government: How the entrepreneurial spirit is transforming government. MA: Addison-Wesley. Reading.
39. Powers, E.T. 2000. Block granting welfare: Fiscal impact on the states. Economic Development Quarterly 14 (4): 323-339.
40. Prud'homme, R. 1995. The dangers of decentralization. The World Bank Research Observer 10 (2): 201-221.
41. Reeder, R., and A. Jansen. 1995. Rural government - Poor counties, 1962-1987. Rural Development Research Report # 88. Washington, DC: USDA, ERS, RED.
42. Sager, Tore. 2002. Deliberative planning and decision making: An impossibility result. Journal of Planning Education and Research 21: 367-378.
43. Savas, Emmanuel S. 2000. Privatization and public-private partnerships. Chatham, NY: Chatham House.
44. Schweke, William, and Robert Stumberg. 2000. The emerging constitution: Why local governments could be left out. Public Management (US) 82 (1): 4-11.
45. Sclar, Elliot. 2000. You don't always get what you pay for: The economics of privatization. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
46. Swyngedouw, Erik. 1997. Neither global nor local: "Globalization" and the politics of scale. In Spaces of globalization: Reasserting the power of the local, ed. Kevin R. Cox, 137-166. New York: Guilford Press.
47. Tiebout, Charles. 1956. A pure theory of local expenditures. Journal of Political Economy 64 (5): 416-424.
48. Tolbert, Charles M., Thomas A. Lyson, and Michael D. Irwin. 1998. Local capitalism, civic engagement, and socioeconomic well-being. Social Forces 77 (2): 401-427.
49. U.S. Bureau of the Census. 1992, 1997, 2002. Census of governments: State and local government finances, Individual unit file. Washington, DC: US Department of Commerce. http://www.census.gov/govs/www/ estimate.html. Accessed 6 October 2008.
50. U.S. Bureau of the Census. 1999. Metropolitan areas and components. Released September 1996, Revised April 1999. http://www.census.gov/ population/estimates/metro-city/93mfips.txt. Accessed 6 October 2008.
51. U.S. Department of State. 2005. In the matter of an international arbitration under chapter 11 of the North American free trade agreement and the uncitral arbitration rules between Methanex Corporation and The United States of America, Final Award of the Tribunal. US Department of State: Washington DC. http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/ 51052.pdf. Accessed 6 October 2008.
52. Warner, Mildred E. 2001. State policy under devolution: Redistribution and centralization. National Tax Journal Vol LIV (3): 541-556.
53. Warner, Mildred E. 2003. Local governance: From competition to cooperation. In Challenges for rural America in the twenty-first century, ed. David Brown and Louis Swanson, 252-261. College Station, PA: Penn State University Press.
54. Warner, Mildred E. 2006. Market-based governance and the challenge for rural governments: U.S. trends. Social Policy and Administration: An International Journal of Policy and Research 40 (6): 612-631.
55. Warner, Mildred E. 2008. Reversing privatization, rebalancing government reform: Markets, deliberation and planning. Policy and Society 27 (2).
56. Warner, Mildred E., and Germà Bel. 2008. Competition or monopoly? Comparing US and Spanish privatization. Public Administration: An International Quarterly 86 (3): 723-735.
57. Warner, Mildred E., Anna Belajova, Maria Fazikova, and Andrea Siebenmanova. 1999. Local government and rural development in the Visegrad: Challenges and opportunities. In Rural development in central and eastern Europe, ed. David Brown and Anna Bandlerova, 181-189. Nitra, Slovakia: Slovak Agricultural University.
58. Warner, Mildred E., and Jennifer Gerbasi. 2004. Rescaling and reforming the state under NAFTA: Implications for subnational authority. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 28 (4): 853-873.
59. Warner, Mildred E., and Amir Hefetz. 2002a. Applying market solutions to public services: An assessment of efficiency, equity and voice. Urban Affairs Review 38 (1): 70-89.
60. Warner, Mildred E., and Amir Hefetz. 2002b. The uneven distribution of market solutions for public goods. Journal of Urban Affairs 24 (4): 445-459.
61. Warner, Mildred E., and Amir Hefetz. 2003. Rural-urban differences in privatization: Limits to the competitive state. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 21 (5): 703-718.
62. Warner, Mildred E., and Amir, Hefetz. 2004. Pragmatism over politics: alternative service delivery in local government, 1992-2002. In The Municipal Year Book 2004, 8-16 Washington, DC: International City County Management Association.
63. Warner, Mildred E., and Amir Hefetz. 2008. Managing markets for public service: The role of mixed public/private delivery of city services. Public Administration Review 68 (1): 150-161.
64. Warner, Mildred E., and James E. Pratt. 2005. Spatial diversity in local government revenue effort under decentralization: A neural network approach. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 23 (5): 657-677.
65. Warner, Mildred E., and Sally Shortall. 2008. Growth coalitions and rural development policy in the EU and the US. EuroChoices 7(3) Point de Vue.
66. Weinstein, Deborah. 1998. Race to the bottom: Plummeting welfare caseloads in the south and the nation. Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund.