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dc.contributor.author | Elston, Thomas | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bel i Queralt, Germà, 1963- | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wang, Han | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-24T14:17:56Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-01-24T14:17:56Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2023-11-01 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0033-3352 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/206280 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Collaboration is a commonly prescribed method of public service improvement. If collaboration fails, blame is typically ascribed to transaction costs, organizational inertia, or premature evaluation. However, drawing on a notable case of collaborative failure in England, we show that misdiagnosing public service problems as of a type likely to be cured by joint working also generates poor results, and belongs conceptually prior to many "go-to" explanations of failure. Using stacked difference-in-difference estimators on 11 years of performance data relating to subnational tax collection, we show that inter-municipal cooperation produced no cost or quality improvements over independent service delivery. Supplementary testing attributes this less to governance problems, inertia or precipitate evaluation, than to a basic lack of interdependence - the specific "problem" to which collaboration is the "solution" - between large councils. Having exhausted scale economies internally, partners experienced no mutual reliance warranting their attempt to further economize through collaboration. | - |
dc.format.extent | 24 p. | - |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | - |
dc.language.iso | eng | - |
dc.publisher | American Society for Public Administration | - |
dc.relation.isformatof | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13708 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Public Administration Review, 2023, vol. 83, num.6, p. 1737-1760 | - |
dc.relation.uri | https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13708 | - |
dc.rights | (c) American Society for Public Administration, 2023 | - |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.source | Articles publicats en revistes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada) | - |
dc.subject.classification | Administració pública | - |
dc.subject.classification | Direcció d'empreses | - |
dc.subject.classification | Administració local | - |
dc.subject.classification | Cooperació intergovernamental | - |
dc.subject.other | Public administration | - |
dc.subject.other | Industrial management | - |
dc.subject.other | Local government | - |
dc.subject.other | Intergovernmental cooperation | - |
dc.title | If it ain't broke, don't fix it: When collaborative public management becomes collaborative excess | - |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | - |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion | - |
dc.identifier.idgrec | 737839 | - |
dc.date.updated | 2024-01-24T14:17:56Z | - |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | - |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada) |
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