Street-Level Governments: Assessing Decentralization and Urban Services (An Evaluation of Policy Related Research). [Report No.: R-1527-NSF

Autor/inn/en	Yin, Robert K.; Yates, Douglas
Institution	Rand Corp., Santa Monica, CA.
Titel	Street-Level Governments: Assessing Decentralization and Urban Services (An Evaluation of Policy Related Research). [Report No.: R-1527-NSF
Quelle	(1974), (329 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Case Studies; Change Strategies; City Government; Community Organizations; Community Services; Decentralization; Delivery Systems; Governance; Governmental Structure; Political Issues; Program Evaluation; Public Agencies; Public Policy; Social Change + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Lösungsstrategie; Gemeindenahe Versorgung; Decentralisation; Dezentralisierung; Auslieferung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Regierungssystem; Politischer Faktor; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Öffentliche Einrichtung; Öffentliche Ordnung; Sozialer Wandel
Abstract	Urban decentralization is an attempt to reorganize local services through some combination of: (1) giving service recipients or clients greater responsibility over service policies (the client dimension) and (2) increasing service resources at the level of specific, geographically defined neighborhoods (the territorial dimension). The reorganization can stem from one or more of seven possible strategies; community relations, physical redeployment, administrative decentralization, grievance mechanism, employment of neighborhood residents, new neighborhood institutions, and/or political decentralization. These seven strategies fall into three groups that reflect the degree of intended decentralization along either the client or territorial dimension. The first four are weak strategies, the next two are moderate strategies, and the last may be considered a strong strategy. The present study is a summary assessment of 269 case studies of urban decentralization, dealing with three major questions: What have been the outcomes of the decentralization innovations, as reported by the case studies? What is the relationship between these outcomes and the attempt to implement weak, moderate and strong decentralization strategies? What is the relationship between these outcomes and various other factors? (Author/JM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01