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100			_aSánchez,Jose et al _959497
245			_aWith a little help from my friends? A longitudinal network analysis on fiscal stress and collaboration for public service delivery
260			_aUrban Affairs Review
300			_a60(4), Jul, 2024: p.1191-1228
520			_aLocal governments face revenue constraints and increasing demands for public service delivery. Confronted with fiscal pressures, cities, and counties engage in collaborative arrangements to save costs or improve service levels. However, the same pressures can also prevent them from seeking collaboration. Two distinguishable arguments in tension can be identified: fiscal stress as a driver or as a deterrent for collaboration. This study reconciles these contrasting views using longitudinal network analysis to examine how fiscal stress affects the likelihood of collaboration in four critical service areas. Results point toward fiscal stress negatively affecting collaboration in service areas when economies of scale are not achievable, and increasing the likelihood of collaboration in service domains where these scales are possible. Understanding when fiscal stress affects collaboration is particularly relevant given resource disparities at the local level. Such inequality can create reinforcing cycles of fiscal stress and reduced opportunities to collaborate in service delivery.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10780874231205464
650			_aCollaboration, Fiscal stress, Economies of scale, Stochastic actor-oriented models, Social network analysis, Local government. _948673
773			_aUrban Affairs Review
906			_aLOCAL GOVERNMENT
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