@misc{10481/100501,
year = {2021},
month = {1},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/100501},
abstract = {The main aim of this paper is to examine the likelihood of local governments remunicipalising public services that were previously contracted out. To do so, we studied a sample of 141 Spanish municipalities with between 20,000 and 50,000 inhabitants, with particular reference to contracting back operations conducted in the period 2014-16, using a random-effects panel logit model. We found that local authorities that contracted back public services were mainly influenced by the wish to achieve higher levels of efficiency, by political behaviour in a pre-electoral year, and by political corruption detected in the previous year.},
keywords = {Contracting back},
keywords = {Municipal services},
keywords = {Political cycles},
keywords = {Efficiency},
keywords = {Political corruption},
title = {Drivers of contracting back in local governments: analysing efficiency, opportunistic political cycles, political corruption and financial factors},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/17487870.2019.1689359},
author = {Campos Alba, Cristina María and De la Higuera Molina, Emilio José and Pérez López, Gemma and Zafra-Gómez, José Luis},
}