作者：Heinrich, CJ; Fournier, E
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Changes in funding, clientele, and treatment practices of public and privately owned substance abuse treatment programs, compelled in part by increased cost containment pressures, have prompted researchers' investigations of the implications of organizational form for treatment programs. These studies primarily probe associations between ownership status, patient characteristics, and services delivered and do not empirically link organizational form or structure to treatment outcomes. Data fro...
作者：Hill, CJ; Lynn, LE Jr
作者单位：Georgetown University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Bush School of Government & Public Service
作者：Donahue, AK
作者单位：University of Connecticut; University of Connecticut
摘要：An important and unresolved issue central to the study of government performance is how the actions of managers and the nature of organizations affect the cost of public services. This paper presents an empirical analysis of fire departments that estimates the influence of managerial choices on per capita spending within a simultaneous public production system. It does so by refining a theoretical cost model from the field of public management to include fundamental dimensions of government or...
作者：Heikkila, T
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：Policymakers and academics often identify institutional boundaries as one of the factors that shape the capacity of jurisdictions to manage natural resources such as water, forests, and scenic lands. This article examines two key bodies of literature-common-pool resource management theory and local public economy theory-to explain how the boundaries of political jurisdictions affect natural resource management. Two empirical methods were used to test hypotheses from the literature, using a stu...
