This site is an outgrowth of the Creating Collaborative Communities conference held at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, October 31 thru November 1, 2005 and is moderated by Jered Carr, Department of Political Science, Wayne State University; Richard Feiock, Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University; and Kelly LeRoux, Department of Public Administration, University of Kansas.

This site is designed to be a repository for papers, datasets, articles, and other materials broadly focused on cooperation by local governments on public services. Our interest in forming this working group is to facilitate the exchange of information on this important topic among academics and practitioners around the country.

We encourage interested parties to submit materials to this site. Uploading materials to this site is very easy and will greatly facilitate the dissemination of information about this important topic. We are especially interested in hosting working papers, conference papers, datasets, reports, presentation materials, and bibliographies. It is our hope that this site will be a useful resource to practitioners and academics alike. Authors of the materials posted will receive a monthly report detailing how often their materials have been downloaded.

Submissions from 2009

Choices in Regional Governance Structures: Special Districts as Collaboration Mechanisms, Jayce L. Farmer

Submissions from 2008

Governance by Agreements: Why do Local Governments Enter into Multilateral Agreements?, Simon Andrew

Confronting Fiscal Stress in Municipal Governments: Support by Michigan Residents for Eight Common Strategies, Jered Carr

City Managers, Career Incentives, and Service Delivery Decisions: The Effects of Managerial Ambition on Interlocal Cooperation Choices, Kelly LeRoux and Sanjay Pandey

Fiscal Conditions, Political Interests, and Service Outsourcing Decisions: The Case of Georgia Counties, Ya Anna Ni and Zhirong Jerry Zhao

Submissions from 2007

Explaining Horizontal and Vertical Cooperation on Public Services in Michigan: The Role of Local Fiscal Capacity, Jered B. Carr, Elisabeth R. Gerber, and Eric W. Lupher

Intergovernmental Cooperation: A Position Paper from the Michigan Government Finance Officers Association, Art Holdsworth

Selling Stakeholders on Interlocal Cooperation, Art Holdsworth

Outsourcing in U.S. Cities, Ambulances and Elderly Voters, Matthew J. Holian

Regional Governance Institutions and Interlocal Cooperation for Service Delivery, Sung-Wook Kwon

Councils of Government and Nonprofit Community Conferences, Kelly LeRoux

Explaining Local Government Cooperation on Public Works: Evidence from Michigan, Kelly LeRoux and Jered B. Carr

Do Special Districts Act Alone?: Exploring the Relationship Between Flexible Boundaries and Intergovernmental Cooperation, Megan Mullin

Interlocal Cooperation in the Supply of Local Public Goods: A Transaction Cost and Social Exchange Explanation, Manoj Shrestha and Richard Feiock

Submissions from 2006

Justifying Interlocal Cooperation: Feasibility Studies, Financing and Cost Allocation, Art Holdsworth

The Business Case for Interlocal Cooperation, Art Holdsworth

Counting Competitors: Relative Gains and Cooperation in Metropolitan America, Skip Krueger

EXPLORING INTERLOCAL COOPERATION IN PUBLIC SAFETY: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY , Shanthi Mohankumar

Policy Networks and Institutional Collective Action: A Research Agenda, John T. Scholz, Richard C. Feiock, and T. K. Ahn

The Distributional Consequences of Interlocal Agreement Cost Allocation Strategies, Eric A. Scorsone

City council members and the representation funtion in intergovernmental decision making, Eric Zeemering

Submissions from 2005

Cooperation Costs and the Economics of Intergovernmental Partnerships, Soji Adelaja and Laila A. Racevskis

Interlocal Contractual Arrangements in the Provision of Public Safety, Simon A. Andrew

Interlocal Services Cooperation: Bridging Public Management and Metropolitan Governance?, Jered B. Carr

List of Abstracts, Creating Collaborative Communities Conference, Jered B. Carr

Patterns of Interlocal Services Collaboration: A Preliminary Analysis, Jered B. Carr

Which Local Governments Cooperate on Public Safety?: Lessons from Michigan, Jered B. Carr and Kelly LeRoux

Institutional Collective Action and Local Goverance, Richard C. Feiock

Public Administration and Shared Power: Understanding Governance, Networks, and Partnerships, H. George Frederickson and David Matkin

Cooperative Municipal Service Provision: A Political-Economy Framework for Understanding Intergovernmental Cooperation, Elisabeth R. Gerber and Clark C. Gibson

A Transaction Costs Explanation of Interlocal Government Collaboration, Skip Krueger and Michael McGuire

Catalog of Local Government Services in Michigan, Eric Lupher

Facilitating Interlocal Collaboration: Community and the Soft Skills of Public Management, Ricardo S. Morse

Characteristics of Service, Structure of Networks, and Forms of Inter-Local Cooperation in Local Service Production: Evidence from Florida, Manoj Shrestha

Elements of Successful Interlocal Agreements: An Iowa Case Study , Kurt Thurmaier

The Nature of Metropolitan Governance in Urban America: A Study of Cooperation, Conflict, and Avoidance in the Kansas City Region, Curtis H. Wood

Submissions from 2003

Intergovernmental Cooperation: A Background Paper, Lynn Harvey