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Local Government Failure in Australia? An Empirical Analysis of New South Wales
Author(s) -
Byrnes Joel,
Dollery Brian
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8500.00284
Subject(s) - taxonomy (biology) , local government , politics , corporate governance , government (linguistics) , empirical evidence , government failure , public administration , context (archaeology) , political science , empirical research , sociology , epistemology , economics , public finance , geography , management , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , law , biology
The complexities of contemporary local governance in Australia and other advanced democracies provide social scientists with significant theoretical and empirical challenges. Drawing on recent developments, including public choice theory, economists have sought to develop taxonomic systems of government failure specifically tailored to local government circumstances. This paper seeks to extend the Dollery and Wallis (2001b) taxonomy of local government failure by invoking Olson’s (1965) concept of political entrepreneurship. The paper then attempts to determine the empirical validity of the augmented taxonomy by examining it in the context of NSW local government.