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Public and Private Funding for Local Public Park and Recreation Services : = Attitudes, Ideologies, and Values.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Public and Private Funding for Local Public Park and Recreation Services :/
Reminder of title:	Attitudes, Ideologies, and Values.
Author:	Pitas, Nicholas A. D.
Description:	1 online resource (185 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-04A(E).
Subject:	Recreation. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355331424

Public and Private Funding for Local Public Park and Recreation Services : = Attitudes, Ideologies, and Values.
Pitas, Nicholas A. D.

Public and Private Funding for Local Public Park and Recreation Services :Attitudes, Ideologies, and Values. - 1 online resource (185 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

The purpose of this dissertation was to better understand the factors that drive acceptance of or opposition to traditional and alternative funding strategies for local public park and recreation services. Traditionally such services are financed primarily through taxbased allocations. Recently however, the public funding model for these services has become increasingly inadequate and inconsistent. Following a "golden era" spanning the late 20 th and early 21st centuries, support for local public parks and recreation fell dramatically. Overall funding for parks and recreation fell, funding decreased relative to other public services, and full-time jobs were lost at a hitherto unprecedented rate. As a result, alternative funding strategies have garnered increased attention as a potential method of retaining service quality and delivery.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355331424Subjects--Topical Terms:

559433
Recreation.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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520 $a Privatization, any activity that reduces the public's role in the financing and delivery of public services, is one such alternative strategy, and the focus of this dissertation. Although privatization may indeed mean selling public lands and facilities to the highest bidder, it is more likely to be a matter of degree. Individual practices such as corporate sponsorship, outsourcing, and increased reliance on volunteers are all examples of specific privatization practices. Just how "public" and how "private" any agency actually is may be a matter of debate, but implementing these practices is part of an incremental process moving an agency along a spectrum from fully public to fully private. Understanding constituent support for or opposition to these practices, as well as the factors that shape those attitudes, is of critical concern to practitioners who wish to explore privatization as a funding mechanism while maintaining public support and goodwill.
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