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.

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Submissions from 2009

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

Submissions from 2008

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

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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

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

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

Submissions from 2007

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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

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

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Selling Stakeholders on Interlocal Cooperation, Art Holdsworth

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

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

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Councils of Government and Nonprofit Community Conferences, Kelly LeRoux

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

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

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

Submissions from 2006

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

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The Business Case for Interlocal Cooperation, Art Holdsworth

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

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

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

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

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

Submissions from 2005

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Institutional Collective Action and Local Goverance, Richard C. Feiock

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

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

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

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Catalog of Local Government Services in Michigan, Eric Lupher

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

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

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

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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