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پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
HD3861.U6 L38 1999eb
HD3861
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U6
L38
1999eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0313028451
(Number (ISBN
9780313028458
Erroneous ISBN
0275964280
Erroneous ISBN
9780275964283
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b715860
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Smart contracting for local government services :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
processes and experience /
First Statement of Responsibility
Kevin Lavery.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Westport, Conn. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Praeger,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1999.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (viii, 221 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations.
SERIES
Series Title
Privatizing government, an interdisciplinary series,
ISSN of Series
1087-5603
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Acknowledgments; 1 Setting the Scene; 2 Local Governments in the U.S. and the U.K.; 3 How Are Services Provided?; 4 What Difference Does Contracting Make?; 5 The Make or Buy Decision and Contract Management; 6 Smart Contracting for Public Services; 7 Only in Los Angeles -- Contract Cities and LA County; 8 The Indianapolis Experience -- Using Competitive Contracting to Improve Services and Efficiency; 9 Careless Contracting in New York City -- The Problems of Designing a Contracting System to Avoid Corruption; 10 Competition Affects Everybody -- Contracting for Support Services in Milwaukee.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Privatization of local government is making headlines throughout the world. Scottsdale, Arizona, contracts for fire protection; Baltimore, to run nine city schools; and Chicago and Philadelphia for a range of services from janitors to recreational facilities. The United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia have arguably gone further than the United States. But much of the debate on contracting has been high on politics, philosophy, and emotion with little attention to practical issues of how to do contracting well. The book shifts the debate away from the politics and rhetoric to the practicali.
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Title
Smart contracting for local government services.
International Standard Book Number
9780275964283
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Contracting out-- Great Britain.
Contracting out-- United States.
Local government-- Great Britain.
Local government-- United States.
Privatization-- Great Britain.
Privatization-- United States-- States.
Contracting out.
Local government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Affairs & Administration.
Privatization-- U.S. states.
Privatization.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Great Britain.
United States.
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(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
POL-- 017000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
352
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5/38214/0973
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
HD3861
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U6
Book number
L38
1999eb
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Lavery, Kevin.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201208060441.0
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ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
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