Doing the right thing: an evaluation of new models of local government service provision in regional New South Wales.(Case study)

From: Rural Society | Date: August 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Abstract

Intense financial pressure and threats of dissolution through amalgamation in local government structural reform programs have forced regional and rural councils across Australia to consider new organizational arrangements for service delivery. As a consequence, an ingenious array of institutional models has been developed and implemented over the recent past. However, the very spontaneity that has engendered this remarkable process has meant that it has occurred across non-metropolitan Australia often with councils or groups of councils arming at similar solutions ...

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