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- Title
Testing a relationship between special districts and nonprofits: Do they substitute or complement?
- Authors
Park, HyungGun
- Abstract
Objective: As similar modes of public service delivery on behalf of general‐purpose governments, a relationship between special districts(SD) and nonprofit organization are empirically tested. Methods: Using U.S. data from the Census of Government Finance and the National Center for Charitable Statistics databases between 1997 and 2017, this study regress counts and spending level of SDs on the nonprofits' counterparts. Results: For both counts and spending level, there are positive association between SDs and nonprofit organizations. Conclusion: SDs and nonprofit organizations complement each other even when their service domains overlap.
- Subjects
SPECIAL districts; NONPROFIT organizations; NUMERIC databases; MUNICIPAL services; PUBLIC finance
- Publication
Social Science Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell), 2023, Vol 104, Issue 4, p423
- ISSN
0038-4941
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ssqu.13285