Restructuring State and Local Services

Raphaelson, Arnold

ISBN 10: 0275949427 / ISBN 13: 9780275949426

Published by ABC-Clio, Incorporated, 1998

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pp. 162 Index.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Restructuring State and Local Services
• Publisher: ABC-Clio, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0275949427
• ISBN 13: 9780275949426
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used

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Synopsis

Under pressure from both the Federal government and private citizens, local and state governments are restructuring their services, including the areas of education, highway, and transportation. While the federal government wants to reassign responsibilities to local governments, voters want greater efficiency and lower taxes via privatization. This edited collection considers these pressures, the responses from state and local governments, and specific experiments in privatizing local services.

The book's opening chapter presents an overview of the changing landscape, while the following chapters consider possibilities in both education and highway services. In education, interdistrict school choice and state-local structures are considered. Highway services are seen in federal-state and state-private relationships. Reporting on a variety of experiments, each chapter illustrates a type of service or arrangement for restructuring governmental services.

About the Author

ARNOLD H. RAPHAELSON is Professor of Economics at Temple University. A specialist in public finance, he has written about property taxation, public programs in health economics and treatment programs.