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Local Government Contracting with The Private Sector

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Patricia S. Florestano
Patricia S. Florestano*
Affiliation:
Maryland Technical Advisory Service, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
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A contemporary exploration of the concept of “private sector delivery of public services” is necessitated by the fiscal “facts of life” prevalent in most local jurisdictions today. Documentation of the mounting costs of local government is readily available. All informed projections suggest that because of inflation and increased labor costs, this spiralina increase will not level off in the near future.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , Spring 1982 , pp. 75 - 81
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

The material on which this presentation is based comes from three separate pieces of research: “Public vs. Private: Small Government Contracting with the Private Sector,” by Florestano and Stephen B. Gordon, Public Administration Review, Jan./Feb. 1980, Vol. 40, No. 1; “A Survey of City and County Use of Private Contracting,” by Florestano and Gordon, The Urban Interest, Spring 1981, Vol. 3, No. 1; and an unpublished manuscript, “County and Municipal Use of Private Contracting for Public Service Provision,” by Florestano. The material was used in this fashion because of the interest of the conference attendees in small jurisdictions and in those in the Northeast.

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