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Wendell Cox Consultancy
International Public Policy . Economics . Labor . Transport . Strategic Planning

Mission

To facilitate the ideal of government as the servant of the people by identifying and implementing strategies to achieve public purposes at a cost that is no higher than necessary.

The Organization

Wendell Cox Consultancy is a consulting firm specializing in international public policy, economics, labour, transport, and strategic planning. The firm conducts research and assists clients in implementing systems to improve performance relative to objectives. Projects have been completed in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Africa. Some notable products include:

  • People, Markets and Government: How Economic Policy Creates Wealth or Poverty: State Legislators Guide to Economics. Authors: Wendell Cox, Jean Love and Samuel A. Brunelli.

  • Drafting competitive tendering (privatization) legislation, including:

    Colorado Senate Bill #164, which required the Denver urban transport system to competitively contract 20 percent of its bus service. This is the only compulsory competitive contracting legislation enacted in the United States (1988). It is estimated that attributable savings exceeded 30 percent and $75 million over the first six years of operation.

    The "petition of interest" privatization model bill, which has been introduced in a number of states, and partially enacted in Texas.

  • Competitive Pricing Procedures, which govern competitive tendering of urban transport services in New Zealand.

  • Legislative Issue Briefs: Three Editions of this publication produced in camera ready form for the American Legislative Exchange Council. The Third (and current) Edition (1994) contains more than 200 briefs, 150 tables and charts and 700 pages (Edited by Jean Love and Samuel A. Brunelli, primary authors Jean Love and Wendell Cox).

  • Principles of Competitive Contracting (Competitive Tendering)

  • Performance and Management Audit of British Columbia Transit

  • Annual report on the costs of government employment.

  • Drafting of the proposed Federal Mandate Relief Amendment, which was adopted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Ohio for consideration by the US Congress (1995).
Wendell Cox Consultancy was established in 1985.

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Specialities

Public Policy . Government . Constitution . Political Philosophy
Privatization . Public-Private Partnerships
Competitive Tendering . Competitive Contracting
Economics
Labor . Labour
Devolution . Regional & State Sovereignty . Federalism
Urban Transport . Public Transit . Mass Transit
Highways . Roads . Roading . Automobiles
Transport . Transportation . Transport Policy
Government Efficiency . Government Finance . Government Spending
Government Employment
Government Structure
Federal Budget (USA) . Balanced Budget Amendment
Strategic Planning

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Wendell Cox

Wendell Cox was appointed by Mayor Tom Bradley to three terms on the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, which oversaw the highway and public transport system in this county of 8 million residents (1977-1985). He has consulted on projects in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa. He also served for three years as Director of State Legislation and Policy for the American Legislative Exchange Council (an organization of market oriented state legislators). He earned a bachelors degree from California State University at Los Angeles and a masters degree from Pepperdine University.

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Jean Love

Jean Love has conducted research in a wide range of public policy issues and edited Legislative Issue Briefs, a 700+ page volume of fully documented information for state legislators. She earned bachelors and masters degrees from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

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WENDELL COX CONSULTANCY
P.O. Box 8083
Belleville, Illinois 62222 U.S.A.
Telephone: +1 618 632 8507
Facsimile: +1 618 632 8538
Internet: http://www.publicpurpose.com/
E-Mail: policy@publicpurpose.com
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