Business Improvement Districts in the United States

Abraham Unger is Assistant Professor of Government and Director of Urban Programs at Wagner College, USA, and Senior Research Fellow at the Carey Institute for Government Reform. Unger is a member of the Staten Island Borough President’s Strategic Policy Advisory Committee.

1. Privatization in the Neighborhood .- 2. The Structure of Bids: Public-Private Hybrids .- 3. The Real Lives of BIDs .- 4. How BIDs Behave: Publicness and Privateness in BID Organizational Life .- 5. DSBS and BIDs: Advocacy, Not Oversight .- 6. Epilogue.

"Abraham Unger provides readers with a new lens for understanding the inner workings of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs). ... The author's in-depth analysis and methodological approach to reviewing New York BIDs will serve countless practitioners and academics studying internal complexities of BIDs and the role of government and private sector and may ultimately lead to improved levels of accountability and transparency in BIDs and improved models of governance in PPPs." (Haris Alibasic, Public Administration Review, Vol.78 (1), 2018)