This paper suggests to study service delivery networks by drawing on the theories of collaboration, coproduction, and networks combined. We introduce four dimensions of coproduction under ‘coproduction-oriented collaborations’. This framework allows us to ‘zoom in and zoom out’ when we...

Social equity and social justice have been a fundamental concern for public administration scholars and practitioners. So far the literature is largely normative in nature and centered on John Rawls’ theory of justice, paying less attention to how public administrators actually think about...

This paper explores the fungibility between earmarked local option sales taxes and general revenue. We predict that as the adjustment costs to the budget grow, there will be less compensation from general revenue. We use national county level data from 1983 to 2004 to examine the effects of...

This article examines the theory behind the design of fiscal transfers; it identifies acyclicality of transfers as a drawback and proposes counter cyclical design as an optimal fiscal framework to mitigate cyclical economic fluctuations. It further advocates counter-cyclical transfers for...

This paper examines the fiscal motives behind municipal governments' decisions to allocate commercial and residential land when two categories of land use are subject to different fiscal revenue alternatives: business-related tax and/or land rent. We use urban parcel-level land transfers during...

This paper treats “line-item” as an important, albeit informal, invention in human history that paved the way for the development of accounting and budgeting which formed the foundation for modern business and public administration. Using the informatics perspective, the paper takes...