New Public Management and NIMBY Politics: The Case of Garbage Management Cooperation between Chia-yi City and County
Author: Chin-Cher Chen, Ching-Ping Tang
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The application of New Public Management (NPM) in Taiwan’s governancehas attracted significant attention recently. One field left to be further elaboratedis the potential of NPM in solving not-in-my-back-yard (NIMBY) conflicts thathave prevailed in many localities. This study delineates the development of acooperation agreement in garbage management between Chia-yi County and City inorder to illustrate how the involvement of a private business via a build-operate-transfer (BOT) contract might break through the political boundaries of a publicservice (garbage incineration) to reach an better economy of scale. This agreementproves to benefit all three parties and improves efficiency by reaching a Paretooptimal. The case also demonstrates the advantage of a polycentric governingarrangement that has been advocated by many political economists.