tailieunhanh - Business Improvement Districts Research, Theories, and Controversies

As the significance of business improvement districts (BIDs) has grown in recent years in the governance of urban and metropolitan areas, not only in North America but also in a variety of European, Asian, and African countries, academic interest in them followed. BIDs are self-assessment districts that are initiated and governed by property or businessowners and authorized by state or local governments to operate in designated urban and suburban geographic areas. In the relatively short history of the academic literature on BIDs, they have been interpreted in a variety of ways and analyzed through different theoretical lenses. To some, they are yet another example of the privatization of the delivery of public services | Public Administration and Public Policy 145 Business Improvement Districts Research Theories and Controversies Edited by Gôktug Morcol Lorlene Hoyt Jack w. Meek Ulf Zimmermann @CRC Press Taylor Sc Francis Group Business Improvement Districts Research Theories and Controversies PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY A Comprehensive Publication Program EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EVAN M BERMAN Huey McElveen Distinguished Professor Louisiana State University Public Administration Institute Baton Rouge Louisiana Founding Editor JACK RABIN Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy The Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg School of Public Affairs Middletown Pennsylvania 1. Public Administration as a Developing Discipline Robert T. Golembiewski 2. Comparative National Policies on Health Care Milton I. Roemer . 3. Exclusionary Injustice The Problem of Illegally Obtained Evidence Steven R. Schlesinger 5. Organization Development in Public Administration edited by Robert T. Golembiewski and William B. Eddy 7. Approaches to Planned Change Robert T. Golembiewski 8. Program Evaluation at HEW edited by James G. Abert 9. The States and the Metropolis Patricia S. Florestano and Vincent L. Marando 11. Changing Bureaucracies Understanding the Organization before Selecting the Approach William A. Medina 12. Handbook on Public Budgeting and Financial Management edited by Jack Rabin and Thomas D. Lynch 15. Handbook on Public Personnel Administration and Labor Relations edited by Jack Rabin Thomas Vocino W. Bartley Hildreth and Gerald J. Miller 19. Handbook of Organization Management edited by William B. Eddy 22. Politics and Administration Woodrow Wilson and American Public Administration edited by Jack Rabin and James S. Bowman 23. Making and Managing Policy Formulation Analysis Evaluation edited by G. Ronald Gilbert 25. Decision Making in the Public Sector edited by Lloyd G. Nigro 26. Managing Administration edited by Jack Rabin Samuel Humes and Brian S. Morgan 27. Public .