Recreation Vouchers
A Case Study in Administrative Innovation and Citizen Participation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6360531 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John L Crompton (0000-0002-1302-383X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 537-537 |
| Publication date | 1983-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Administration Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3352 • E-ISSN: 1540-6210 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/975921 |
| OpenAlex | W2322880683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
The basic idea of vouchers is to give resources to citizens so they can purchase the services of their choice from authorized suppliers. In their classic form, which was described by Milton Friedman over a quarter of a century ago, vouchers are given to citizens by a government agency.' Citizens exchange the vouchers for services delivered by their preferred supplier. The provider of the services then returns them to the agency and receives cash for the vouchers acquired. The fundamental principle is that vouchers can be used to subsidize potential users directly, rather than allocating that same amount of subsidy to a service or facility, or to an agency which operates that service or facility. Efforts are continually being made to increase the responsiveness of local government to citizens' needs and demands. There has been a continuing interest in how local governments can best incorporate citizen participation, citizen attitudes, and citizen preferences into delivery decisions to ensure responsive prioritizing of resources. Traditional approaches often have proved disappointing to participation advocates. Accordingly, more recent approaches have offered more sophisticated techniques to determine what local government services the citizens of a particular community want to increase, retain, decrease, or terminate. Prominent among these techniques has been survey research.2 Vouchers may lead to more comprehensive and more accurate citizen input than surveys, because they enable citizens to for preferences with the equivalent of dollars. Each citizen has a direct, executive, and continuing voice in shaping public policy by his or her vote of vouchers.3 Vouchers can be viewed as the ultimate in citizen participation
Business · Political science · Recreation · Voucher · Accounting · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Law · Public Administration · Transportation Planning and Optimization · Urban Transport and Accessibility
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
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| Citation span | 1991 - 2021 (31) |
| Highly cited | No |