TY - JOUR
T1 - Values, Ideologies, Attitudes, and Preferences for Relative Allocations to Park and Recreation Services
AU - Pitas, Nick A.
AU - Mowen, Andrew Justin
AU - Taff, Brendan Derrick
AU - Hickerson, Benjamin
AU - Graefe, Alan R.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Local park and recreation agencies rely heavily on tax-based allocations as a funding source. However, such allocations have recently been cut both overall and relative to other services, incentivizing exploration of alternative funding strategies. Privatization practices represent a potentially efficacious but controversial alternative funding approach. This study examines the relationship between attitudes toward privatization, and preferences for allocating tax-based funding to park and recreation services. The mediating role of other cognitive processes (values, value orientations, and ideology) is considered using a cognitive hierarchy approach. Results indicate that a more positive perception of privatization was related to the allocation of less tax funding to park and recreation services. A more self-transcendent value orientation was positively related to preferred allocations, while a more self-enhancement value orientation and a more conservative social ideology were negatively related to preferred allocations.
AB - Local park and recreation agencies rely heavily on tax-based allocations as a funding source. However, such allocations have recently been cut both overall and relative to other services, incentivizing exploration of alternative funding strategies. Privatization practices represent a potentially efficacious but controversial alternative funding approach. This study examines the relationship between attitudes toward privatization, and preferences for allocating tax-based funding to park and recreation services. The mediating role of other cognitive processes (values, value orientations, and ideology) is considered using a cognitive hierarchy approach. Results indicate that a more positive perception of privatization was related to the allocation of less tax funding to park and recreation services. A more self-transcendent value orientation was positively related to preferred allocations, while a more self-enhancement value orientation and a more conservative social ideology were negatively related to preferred allocations.
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U2 - 10.1080/01490400.2019.1656120
DO - 10.1080/01490400.2019.1656120
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85072021932
JO - Leisure Sciences
JF - Leisure Sciences
SN - 0149-0400
ER -