Dale Krane

Beyond the property tax: local government revenue diversification

Local governments in the U.S. rely less on the property tax than they have historically. This long-term trend has been accompanied by important shifts in the composition of local revenues. While the property tax still serves as one primary source of local government revenue, increasingly other sources are used to pay for local government. This paper first examines that trend, the forces behind it, and its regional impact. We then explore trends in three central states - - Iowa, Nebraska, and Arkansas -- that have experienced substantial revenue shifts in recent years. A concluding section discusses the options for the future.

Handbook of Public Administration, Third Edition

Municipal Shared Services and Consolidation: A Public Solutions Handbook Teaching Resources Guide for Public Affairs and Administration (3rd Edition). The third edition of the Handbook of Public Administration provides much-needed coverage of the theory and practice to help address these contemporary. The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration, Second Edition The SAGE Handbook of Strategic Handbook of Marketing Scales, Third Edition Handbook.

A dança dos blocos, empresários, políticos e técnicos: condicionantes da dinâmica de colaboração Interorganizacional do carnaval de Salvador

Ao analisar a evolucao dos processos de colaboracao entre entidades publicas e privadas no planejamento e operacao do Carnaval de Salvador, dentro de uma perspectiva historica, propomos alguns fatores que ajudam a explicar a dinâmica de colaboracao interorganizacional em megaeventos. Processos interativos envolvendo diferentes agencias tornaram-se fundamentais na medida em que o evento cresceu em tamanho, diversidade e complexidade. Para tanto, sob o ponto de vista teorico, utilizamos as lentes das teorias de colaboracao interorganizacional e, sob o ponto de vista empirico, utilizamos uma abordagem qualitativa por meio de analise documental e entrevistas em profundidade junto a 13 atores relevantes. Nossas analises apontam que os processos colaborativos para a organizacao do Carnaval de Salvador estao relacionados com o alinhamento politico entre as esferas municipal e estadual, com o grau de centralidade ocupado por alguns atores no processo, com a presenca de um corpo tecnico detentor do know-how do evento e com elementos de natureza instrumental e simbolica.

Civic festivals and collaborative governance

Civic festivals offer an exceptional laboratory for the study of collaborative governance because these events are ubiquitous and are characterized by public and private partners engaged in joint activity. Using the Carnival festival of Salvador, Brazil, as an example, we analyze the current models of collaborative governance to determine whether they apply to the context of large civic festivals. Drawing primarily on Ansell and Gash’s (2008) model, our qualitative analysis shows that some constructs of collaborative governance models are present. However, our results uncover other factors affecting the collaboration process such as informal relationships and the basis of decision-making. Our results also suggest that trust, a factor commonly argued as necessary to collaborative action, may be less critical than received theories suggest. Points for practitioners Large civic festivals are a unique laboratory for studying inter-organizational collaboration because these events normally involve a myriad of public and private actors working in an interdependent fashion. Our study reveals some factors not covered by previous research that influence the dynamics of collaboration. We observe that repeated interactions between technical experts can foster informal (and effective) networks of collaboration and circumvent the problems generated by political disputes. The bases on which decisions are taken are also important factors to enhance collaboration. We found that trust, a factor commonly argued as necessary to collaborative action, may be less critical than received theories suggest.

MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE PROCESSES - CITIZENS & LOCAL BUDGETING: COMPARING BRAZIL, CHINA, & THE UNITED STATES

Modifications to policymaking processes and actors are crucial when transitioning to multilevel governance. Civic engagement in budgeting processes, where crucial policy decisions are determined, is an important component of shared governance. Understanding the new roles for citizens in the budget process, then, can extend our knowledge of multilevel governance. This research explores the ways in which the budget process incorporates citizen participation to foster an ideal of civil society in the United States, Brazil, and China. The comparative case analysis probes the extent to which institutional changes have occurred, why they have occurred, and the degree to which municipal budget processes are characterized by multilevel governance.