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Reexamining the Claim of Public Authority Efficacy

Carolyn Bourdeaux

Georgia State University, Atlanta

Public authorities, a form of special purpose government, have often been associated with an effective, if authoritarian, implementation of public policy objectives. In the late 1980s, a group of counties in New York State made a choice about whether or not to create a public authority to site and develop an incinerator or landfill. Although the practitioners who created the public authorities expected them to perform well in a contentious political setting, a survey of the state indicates that the public authorities actually completed very few projects. This finding holds even controlling for key task and environmental variables.

Key Words: public authorities • special districts • solid waste • garbage • governance

Administration & Society, Vol. 39, No. 1, 77-106 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0095399706296553
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