What's in a Name? Assessing the Performance of Local Government Classification Systems

Title
What's in a Name? Assessing the Performance of Local Government Classification Systems
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Drew, Joseph
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3579-5758
Email: jdrew2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jdrew2
Dollery, Brian E
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/03003930.2015.1007132
UNE publication id
une:18952
Abstract
Local government classification systems are employed in many countries for regulation, grant transfers and other public policy purposes. Given the pivotal role these classification systems play in public policy, their accuracy is a matter of some importance. Classification systems take several forms typically consisting of groupings of municipalities based on factors such as degree of urbanisation, population size and the like. However, to date none of these classification systems have been tested for homogeneity with respect to environmental constraints or validated against external data. This paper employs the classification system for New South Wales (NSW) local authorities as a representative case study to demonstrate that a wider range of external constraints should be considered for the robust classification of local councils.
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Citation
Local Government Studies, 42(2), p. 248-266
ISSN
1743-9388
0300-3930
Start page
248
End page
266

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