ABSTRACT
What governments do is significantly related to how they arrange for the provision and production of their functional responsibilities. There is evidence that links how governments arrange for the provision and production of their service responsibilities with the scope and content of their functional responsibilities and the efficiency, effectiveness, and citizen satisfaction associated with the performance of these functional responsibilities. In this article, I review the theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between municipal functional responsibility and the means by which municipalities organize for the provision and production of their service responsibilities.
