Paying the piper: A critical examination of ACIL Allen's (2016) An Economic Assessment of Recasting Council Boundaries in South Australia

Dollery, B; Drew, J

Paying the piper: A critical examination of ACIL Allen's (2016) An Economic Assessment of Recasting Council Boundaries in South Australia

Dollery, B Drew, J

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Citation:: Economic Analysis and Policy, 2017, 54 pp. 74 - 82
Issue Date:: 2017-06-01

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dc.contributor.author	Dollery, B	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Drew, J https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3579-5758	en_US
dc.date.issued	2017-06-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Economic Analysis and Policy, 2017, 54 pp. 74 - 82	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0313-5926	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/123666
dc.description.abstract	© 2017 Economic Society of Australia, Queensland Contemporary public policymaking relies on commissioned work from for-profit consulting companies as a prime source of policy advice. The scholarly literature on the ‘externalisation’ of policy advice has questioned the analytical rigour of such externalised advice. An embryonic literature on policy externalisation in Australian local government has demonstrated that serious flaws exist in numerous consultant reports. In an effort to contribute to this nascent body of empirical scholarship, this paper critically examines ACIL Allen's (2016) An Economic Assessment of Recasting Council Boundaries in South Australia which prescribes the wholesale amalgamation of South Australian local councils. We show that ACIL Allen (2016) is seriously flawed and its policy prescriptions should thus be treated with caution.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Economic Analysis and Policy	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.eap.2017.02.003	en_US
dc.title	Paying the piper: A critical examination of ACIL Allen's (2016) An Economic Assessment of Recasting Council Boundaries in South Australia	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	54	en_US
utslib.for	1402 Applied Economics	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/lnstitute for Public Policy and Governance
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - IPPG - Institute for Public Policy and Governance
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© 2017 Economic Society of Australia, Queensland Contemporary public policymaking relies on commissioned work from for-profit consulting companies as a prime source of policy advice. The scholarly literature on the ‘externalisation’ of policy advice has questioned the analytical rigour of such externalised advice. An embryonic literature on policy externalisation in Australian local government has demonstrated that serious flaws exist in numerous consultant reports. In an effort to contribute to this nascent body of empirical scholarship, this paper critically examines ACIL Allen's (2016) An Economic Assessment of Recasting Council Boundaries in South Australia which prescribes the wholesale amalgamation of South Australian local councils. We show that ACIL Allen (2016) is seriously flawed and its policy prescriptions should thus be treated with caution.

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