Local Government Restructuring: Privatization and Its Alternatives

By M. Warner, Robert Hebdon. 2001

330 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. M. Warner
2. G. Bel
3. A. Hefetz
4. Xavier Fageda
5. Matthew Potoski
6. T. Brown
7. M. Mur
8. Elbert Dijkgraaf

In Political Science and International Relations

1. M. Warner
2. G. Bel
3. Xavier Fageda
4. A. Hefetz
5. Elbert Dijkgraaf
6. Raymond Gradus
7. M. Mur
8. Antonio Miralles

In Public Administration

1. G. Bel
2. M. Warner
3. A. Hefetz
4. Xavier Fageda
5. Matthew Potoski
6. T. Brown
7. Elbert Dijkgraaf
8. Raymond Gradus

Citations in the corpus

• Local service delivery choices in Portugal: A political transaction costs framework (2007, background): “…focusing on a wider range of options, including private, public, and non-governmental sector alternatives, has gained much attention (Frant, 1997; Warner & Hebdon, 2001; Warner & Hefetz, 2002; Brown & Potoski, 2003b; Clingermayer et al., 2003; Feiock et al., 2003; Joassart-Marcelli & Musso,…”
• TRANSACTION COSTS AND CONTRACTING: The Practitioner Perspective (2005, background): “Although direct government provision remains the predominant approach for delivering services, the pull of potential efficiency gains, cost savings, and service delivery innovation has spurred con- tracting across levels of government (Greene, 1996; Lavery, 1999; Warner & Hedbon, 2001).”
• Collusion in the Dutch waste collection market (2007, background): “Therefore, Warner and Hebdon ( 2001 ) emphasise the idea that privatisation is just one of the tools the local politicians has when facing demands for more efficient government.”
• Do Public Sector Reforms Get Rusty? Local Privatization in Spain (2006, background): “Inter-municipal cooperation frequency varies depending on municipality size, following the pattern of rural-urban differences already identified in Warner and Hefetz (2003): frequency of inter-municipal cooperation is a lot higher in low-populated municipalities than in highly populated ones.”
• Does Cooperation Reduce Service Delivery Costs? Evidence from Residential Solid Waste Services (2014, background): “The factors influencing inter-municipal contracting have been extensively studied for the US: Warner and Hebdon (2001) analyze inter-municipal cooperation as one of the available alternatives to privatization.”
• Is private production of public services cheaper than public production? A meta-regression analysis of solid waste and water services (2010, background): “Thus, governments need to play a role in creating competition in public service markets and in careful monitoring to ensure cost savings (Warner & Hebdon, 2001; Warner & Hefetz, 2008).”
• Why do local governments privatise public services? A survey of empirical studies (2007, background): “Modern studies for the US tend to analyse such hypotheses less often, but some studies still find significant influence from unions (Warner & Hebdon, 2001; Levin & Tadelis, 2005) or high-income households (Warner & Hefetz, 2002).”
• Factors Influencing the Privatisation of Urban Solid Waste Collection in Spain (2003, positive): “Recent studies of political decisions at the local level, such as Lopez-de-Silanes et al. (1997) and Warner and Hebdon (2001), have used qualitative endogenous variable models (directly as in the probit and logit models or indirectly as in the tobit model).”
• Insourcing and Outsourcing (2012, background): “For local officials, however, the approach to privatization has been a pragmatic one focused on experimenting with new forms of service delivery in search of cost efficiencies and greater service quality (Bel, Hebdon, & Warner, 2007; Hebdon & Jalette, 2007; Warner & Hebdon, 2001).”
• Applying Market Solutions to Public Services (2002, background): “Although there havebeenmany studies of privatization (Miranda 1994; Hirsch 1995; Greene 1996) and of cooperation (Lowery and Lyons 1989;Morgan andHirlinger 1991), comparisons of the twomarket approaches are rare (Stein 1990b;Warner and Hebdon 2001).”