Measuring the Effects of Local Government Reform: A New Zealand Highway Maintenance Application

Decentralisation; The Question of Management Capacity: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Investigating the Role of "Privatization" Policy in the Reform Government In exacerbating the phenomenon of rent-seeking

The purpose of this study was to analyze the sociology of neoliberal policy during the Reformation. This research is a library, descriptive and documentary study and the period under review was the Reform Government (Seventh-Eighth Government). The findings of the study showed that during the reform period of the government's liberal economics approach, regardless of the consequences of its pol...

Highway Costs and the Efficient Mix of State and Local Funds

Transportation networks and governments are both hierarchically organized. In some states state government finances most of the highways, while in other states similar roads are financed locally. Larger governments attain scale economies. However they also tend to be more bureaucratic and have higher operating costs, all else equal, due to problems such as span of control. This study relates hi...

Measuring Efficiency in Local Governments’ Planning and Regulatory Function

(2000) Measuring efficiency in local governments' planning and function Public Productivity and Management Review 23(4):pp. 468-485. Public sector reform has now become an established dimension of policymaking in many developed countries, including Australia. Although the ongoing program of public sector reform is Australia has focused mainly on the Commonwealth government and some state govern...

Mathematical Programming Approach To Allocate Local Or National Resources For Bridge Maintenance Rehabilitation & Replacement Planning (RESEARCH NOTE)

Today’s, the transportation facilities such as terminals, street, bridge, etc, represent the major investment in highway network. Every year tremendous resources should be invested to maintain these facilities. Among them, the Bridge Management System (B.M.S.) has been necessitated by large imbalance between extensive bridge repair and maintenance needs and limited available budget. So the main...