What factors influence local governments to rely on municipal corporations to provide public services? This article seeks to identify which factors lead local governments to use local corporate public sector organizations, particularly municipal corporations, for service delivery. Based on the ideas of the neo-institutionalism approach to public administration developed by Murray Horn (1995), we argue that local officials trade-off bureaucratic costs of in-house production with agency costs of external delegation to municipal corporations when deciding how to deliver local public services. Econometric models are employed to test this explanation for the adoption of municipal corporations by the 278 Portuguese local governments. The ...
This article tests for the existence of rational political business cycles models using a large and...
The most recently challenges in Public Management are felt in several countries, which lead to the a...
The empirical literature about factors explaining local government delivery choices has traditionall...
This paper is an attempt to identify which factors influence Portuguese local governments to rely on...
Recent changes in Public Administration brought local government management to a new era. In recent ...
The last decades represented a severe strike to the public management model associated to the Welfar...
Service provision by local governments can be delivered using in-house bureaucracies, private firms,...
The influence on local government organization and management of new public management practices pro...
Nowadays, Local Governments have a heavy burden of dealing with much of the services with added valu...
ABSTRACT Service provision by local governments can be delivered using in-house bureaucracies, priva...
Although the literature on the political economy of public finance is already quite extensive, most...
Although the literature on the political economy of public finance is already quite extensive, most...
This article discusses the organisational and institutional model of municipal company in the provis...
Public corporations have been constantly in the spotlight, with some commentators arguing that they ...
The crisis of the sovereign debt forced the Portuguese government to reach out for joint financial h...
This article tests for the existence of rational political business cycles models using a large and...
The most recently challenges in Public Management are felt in several countries, which lead to the a...
The empirical literature about factors explaining local government delivery choices has traditionall...
This paper is an attempt to identify which factors influence Portuguese local governments to rely on...
Recent changes in Public Administration brought local government management to a new era. In recent ...
The last decades represented a severe strike to the public management model associated to the Welfar...
Service provision by local governments can be delivered using in-house bureaucracies, private firms,...
The influence on local government organization and management of new public management practices pro...
Nowadays, Local Governments have a heavy burden of dealing with much of the services with added valu...
ABSTRACT Service provision by local governments can be delivered using in-house bureaucracies, priva...
Although the literature on the political economy of public finance is already quite extensive, most...
Although the literature on the political economy of public finance is already quite extensive, most...
This article discusses the organisational and institutional model of municipal company in the provis...
Public corporations have been constantly in the spotlight, with some commentators arguing that they ...
The crisis of the sovereign debt forced the Portuguese government to reach out for joint financial h...
This article tests for the existence of rational political business cycles models using a large and...
The most recently challenges in Public Management are felt in several countries, which lead to the a...
The empirical literature about factors explaining local government delivery choices has traditionall...