A model for observing public service delivery choice in the presence of economic expansion is presented. Regression techniques were used to estimate the share of county population served by volunteer fire protection from variables measuring community demands for and relative costs of fire protection services.

Can local colonial institutions continue to affect people’s lives nearly 50 years after decolonization? Can meaningful differences in local institutions persist within a single set of national incentives? The literature on colonial legacies has largely focused on cross country comparisons between former French and British colonies, large-n cross sectional analysis using instrumental variables, ...

As the reader will quickly notice, this version is not complete, and even where text is in place it is occasionally closer to notes for a first draft than a proper first draft. My apologies for that. Still, much of the general sense of the argument is in place, and the reader can get a sense of what will be presented in the eventual Part IV from the introduction. Also, the present version of Pa...

posed the political-economic framework that has become the dominant explanation for understanding the formation of local governments. The logic underlying her framework is that people form new governments in order to gain access to the powers attached to these units and that the choice between a municipal and special district government hinges on whether or not its proponents seek zoning powers...

Like many other western countries, the Dutch central government has several programs to stimulate E-government development in local governments. The constitutional relations between central and local governments in The Netherlands, however, are such, that the development of online service delivery is part of the autonomy of the local authorities. Central government has little formal authority t...

OBJECTIVE To investigate, in the Republic of Korea, whether local governments' participation in an anti-smoking programme supported by the National Health Promotion Fund in 2002-2003 was related to the percentage of local tax revenue comprised by the tobacco consumption tax (TCT). METHODS Using financial and administrative data on 163 municipalities, the authors estimated logit models of loca...

Nowadays, the transparency of governments with respect to the sustainability of public services is a very interesting issue for stakeholders and academics. It has led to previous research and international organisations (EU, IMF, OECD, United Nations, IFAC, G-20, World Bank) to recommend promotion of the online dissemination of economic, social and environmental information. Based on previous s...

Russia and other countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States that have implemented voucher privatization programs have to account for the puzzling behavior of insiders—manager-owners—who, in stripping assets from the firms they own, appear to be stealing from one pocket to fill the other. This article suggests that asset stripping and the absence of restructuring result from interaction...

Fiscal equalisation aims at enabling decentralized governments to supply similar services at similar tax rates. In order to equalize fiscal disparities, differences in both fiscal capacities and in fiscal needs have to be measured. This paper focuses on the measurement of fiscal capacity in a developing country. The current intergovernmental transfer system in Tanzania does not take differences...

The Internet, including the World Wide Web and electronic commerce, is transforming the nature of economies and communities globally. The fundamentals of these changes are impacting on industry, communities and governments alike. Today national, state and local area governments are actively pursuing the Internet in an aggressive manner. In Australia local governments authorities (LGA) are begin...