A Typology of shared service provision in Australian local government

Australian Geographer

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 217-231

  Dollery, Brian ^a   Grant, Bligh ^a,b   Akimov, Alexandr ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amalgamation; Local democracy; Local government; Shared services; Spatial scale economies

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; DEMOCRACY; DEVOLUTION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; LOCAL ECONOMY; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; SERVICE PROVISION; TYPOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77953500554     PISSN: 00049182     EISSN: 14653311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049181003742310     Document Type: Article

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