TY - JOUR
T1 - CENTRALIZATION AND URBAN SERVICES
T2 - THE AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE
AU - Parkin, Andrew
PY - 1981/6
Y1 - 1981/6
N2 - The effect on the distribution of urban services of the “geographical fragmentation” of American metropolitan areas into many local government jurisdictions, each with important service responsibilities, is often overlooked. Comparison with Australia, where services are generally administered and financed at the State level, is instructive. Australian centralism tends to have an equalizing effect, largely due to bureaucratic patterns of service delivery, but has also produced both an insensitivity to specialized local factors and an “organizational fragmentation.” Developments in the 1970s suggest improvements in these areas of deficiency.
AB - The effect on the distribution of urban services of the “geographical fragmentation” of American metropolitan areas into many local government jurisdictions, each with important service responsibilities, is often overlooked. Comparison with Australia, where services are generally administered and financed at the State level, is instructive. Australian centralism tends to have an equalizing effect, largely due to bureaucratic patterns of service delivery, but has also produced both an insensitivity to specialized local factors and an “organizational fragmentation.” Developments in the 1970s suggest improvements in these areas of deficiency.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.1981.tb01214.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.1981.tb01214.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84982740550
SN - 0190-292X
VL - 9
SP - 1059
EP - 1065
JO - Policy Studies Journal
JF - Policy Studies Journal
IS - 7
ER -