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961490
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b715860
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Lavery, Kevin.
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Smart contracting for local government services : : processes and experience /\ Kevin Lavery.
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| Publication Statement
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Westport, Conn. :: Praeger,, 1999.
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Privatizing government, an interdisciplinary series,
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1 online resource (viii, 221 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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0313028451
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: 9780313028458
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0275964280
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9780275964283
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.
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| Contents
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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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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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Contracting out-- Great Britain.
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Contracting out-- United States.
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Local government-- Great Britain.
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Local government-- United States.
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Privatization-- Great Britain.
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Privatization-- United States-- States.
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Contracting out.
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Local government.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Affairs Administration.
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Privatization-- U.S. states.
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Privatization.
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Great Britain.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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352.5/38214/0973
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HD3861.U6L38 1999eb
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