A conceptual note on accounting for budget internalities in public policy making
In a recent paper, Fleming, Heinecke and Dollery (2007) developed the government failure taxonomic system advanced by Charles Wolf into a conceptual framework to incorporate positive and negative internalities for analyzing public programs and policies. However, their paper unfortunately ignored the treatment of budget internalities, often an important question in real-world policy applications. This neglect is remedied in the present note by extending the analytical framework to include this important type of internal cost.
An analytical framework for assessing the impact of internalities on policy and projects using examples from Papua New Guinea
The government failure paradigm is nowadays an integral part of modern policy analysis. Several taxonomic models of government failure have been advanced, perhaps most notably the theory of ‘non-market’ failure developed by Charles Wolf. This model identifies four main sources of socially sub-optimal policy outcomes consequent upon the failure of public agencies, including ‘internalities’. Using examples drawn from the Australian foreign aid environment in Papua New Guinea, this paper develops a conceptual framework for incorporating positive and negative internalities into the analysis of the impact of aid on development projects, programs and policies. It is argued inter alia that previous work has neglected the significance of these internalities.
Local public health agency performance and community health status.
This study describes the results of an analysis of the relationship between local public health agency performance and health outcomes. Findings support the model that local public health agency performance affects community health status, and depending on the outcome, performance contributions vary. New hypotheses are offered that could help determine how system performance affects health outcomes.