DIMENSIONS OF CONTRACTING FOR SERVICE DELIVERY BY AMERICAN STATE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES: Exploring Linkages Between Intergovernmental Relations and Intersectoral Administration
Public Performance & Management Review(2014)
摘要
American state administrative agencies are extensively engaged in contracting (out) for the delivery of public services. Representative responses from over 1,100 state agency executives from the 50 U.S. states revealed that nearly three-fourths contracted for services provided by one or all of three sectors. Roughly 60 percent used contracts with other governments; 70 percent, nonprofit entities; and 80 percent, private firms. Five dimensions of contracting were explored: decision making, diversity, density, directionality, and disposition (costs and quality effects). Executives' judgments about costs and quality effects of contracting were most prominent. The relation between contracting as a feature of intersectoral administration (ISA) and intergovernmental relations (IGR) is clear, strong, and significant. One set of vertical complexities (IGR) begets another set of horizontal complexities (ISA). Contracting is part and parcel of complex and challenging contemporary governance.
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