2000
Workshops, Seminars and Short Courses
Amalgamation Seminars. A seminar was scheduled for December 13th 2000 at Kempsey on the north coast of NSW and throughout the New England and North-West.
Research
1. The community outcomes project. Compared outcomes of local government reform processes. The study involved a selection of council in NSW and Victoria and was being undertaken in collaboration with RMIT.
2. E-commerce in regional and rural NSW. Dollery and McNeill secured Aust. Bus. Foundation research grant of $56,000 to investigate e-commerce in regional and rural NSW.
Publications
The following lists recent publications of the Centre in the area of local government:
Worthington, A.C. and Dollery, B.E. "An Empirical Analysis of Productivity Change in Australian Local Government", Public Administration Quarterly (forthcoming).
Worthington, A.C. and Dollery, B.E. "The Debate on Australian Federalism: Local Government Financial Interrelationships with State and Commonwealth Governments", Australian Journal of Public Administration, 59(4), 12-22, 2000.
Wallis, J.L. and Dollery B.E. Local Government Policy Evolution in New Zealand: Radical Reform and the Ex Post Emergence of Consensus or Rival Advocacy Coalitions, Public Administration (forthcoming).
Dollery, B.E., Stewart, M. and Worthington, A.C. "Australian Fiscal Federalism: An Empirical Note on Long-Term Trends in State and Local Government Finance, 1969/70 to 1994/95", Economic Papers, 19(3), 16-17, 2000.
Dollery, B.E., Witherby, A. and Marshall, N.A. "Section 94 Developer Contributions and Marginal Cost Pricing", Urban Policy and Research, 18(3), 311-328, 2000.
Worthington, A.C. and Dollery, B.E. "Measuring Efficiency in Local Government: An Analysis of New South Wales Municipalities' Domestic Waste Management Function" Policy Studies Journal (forthcoming).
Soul, S. and Dollery, B.E. "The Effect of Municipal Population Size on Political Effectiveness: An Empirical Note on Four Local Government Jurisdictions in New South Wales", Regional Policy and Practice, 2000 (forthcoming).
McNeill, J. and Dollery, B.E. "Financing Urban Infrastructure: An Evaluation of Water and Sewerage Developer Charges in New South Wales", Transactions of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering (forthcoming).
Dollery, B.E. and Wallis, J.L. "A Note on the Coherence of the New Public Management as a Managerial Philosophy", International Review of Public Administration, 5(1), 81-91, 2000.
Dollery, B.E. and Soul, S. "An Analysis of the Criteria Used by Australian Local Government Amalgamation Inquiries", Regional Policy and Practice, 9(2), 2000 (forthcoming).
Dollery, B.E. and Soul, S. "A Note on Australian Local Government and Regional Economic and Social Inequalities", Australian Journal of Social Issues, 35(2).
Worthington, A.C. and Dollery, B.E. "Measuring Efficiency in Local Government", Public Productivity and Management Review 23(4), 469-485, 2000.
Crase, L. and Dollery, B.E. "Breakeven Output and Efficient Scale of Livestock Selling Complexes in Victoria", Accounting, Accountability and Performance, 6(1) 1-18, 2000.
McNeill, J. and Dollery, B.E. "Funding Urban Infrastructure Using Developer Charges: The Case of Section 94 Contributions and Road Financing in New South Wales", Public Works Management and Policy, 4(4), 297-304, 2000.
McNeill, J. and Dollery, B.E. "Equity and Efficiency: Section 94 Developer Charges and Affordable Housing in Sydney", Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 6(1), 2000.