Transaction Costs and Institutional Explanations for Government Service Production Decisions
运用交易成本框架，结合制度与市场理论，分析1997年国际城市/县管理协会调查数据，揭示政府如何选择服务生产机制以管理不同服务类型固有的交易成本。
Governments not only choose which services to deliver to citizens, but they also choose how to deliver those services. Governments can produce services themselves or through a variety of external production mechanisms, including contracting with other governments, private firms, and nonprofits. In this article, we apply a transaction cost framework complemented with institutional and market theories to examine governments' service production decisions. Our analyses of a 1997 International City/County Management Association survey shows how governments choose service production mechanisms to manage the transaction costs inherent in delivering different types of services.