Leaky governance : alternative service delivery and the myth of water utility independence / Kathryn Furlong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Furlong, Kathryn, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water utilities--Ontario.

Water utilities.

Water-supply--Economic aspects--Ontario.

Water-supply.

Water-supply--Government policy--Ontario.

Water-supply--Ontario--Management.

Municipal government--Ontario.

Municipal government.

Privatization--Ontario.

Privatization.

Water-supply--Economic aspects.

Water-supply--Government policy.

Water-supply--Management.

Management.

Ontario.

Physical Description:

xviii, 219 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Municipalities face important water supply challenges. One response has been to render utilities independent from municipal government through alternative service delivery (ASD). For its proponents, ASD provides needed autonomy from municipal government; for its detractors, it is privatization under another name. Using Ontario as a case study, Kathryn Furlong paints a complex picture of both ASD and municipal government. Examining organizational models for water supply and how they are affected by shifting governance and institutional environments, she reveals water management and municipal governance to be deeply interdependent and contends that both must be strengthened to meet contemporary water supply needs."-- From publisher's website.

Contents:

1 Alternative Service Delivery: Rhetoric and Reform 3

2 Understanding ASD; Antecedents and Relevance 25

3 Driving forces; Turning to ASD in Ontario 45

4 Leaky Governance: Interdependence and Politics beyond Government 66

5 Challenging ASD: Opening the Local Government Container 96

6 ASD and the Goal of Efficiency 119

7 Conclusions 144.

Other Format:

Furlong, Kathryn, author. Leaky governance.

ISBN:

9780774831482

0774831480

OCLC:

916583228