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REINVENTING GOVERNMENT AND RURAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:
Author(s) -
Sych Lawrence
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
review of policy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1541-1338
pISSN - 1541-132X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-1338.1999.tb00884.x
Subject(s) - public policy , public administration , government (linguistics) , local government , resource (disambiguation) , public transport , public service , public sector , business , public relations , political science , economics , economic growth , law , computer network , linguistics , philosophy , computer science
Is the public sector really reinventing itself? Public transportation is a good test because it is highly sensitive to the reinventing government movement now so prominent on our policy agendas. This analysis develops prescriptively useful policy insights from five rural Michigan cases of reinventing local public transportation. The analysis finds that taskforce recommendations are modest attempts at reinvention. Significant change involving interorganizational coordination in a complex service such as public transportation is difficult to bring about. This difficulty is attributed to lack of goal consensus and resource instability. Local policy entrepreneurs, however, possess many more opportunities for promoting reinvention.