, and its positive effect on the development of Mexican municipalities found by Rodriguez-Pose and Palavicini-Corona (2013 … municipalities located in a Mexican state with a long presence of institutions and resulting mechanisms closer to citizens were … favourable effect in one of the studied municipalities than the other is due to differences in the functioning of their formal …

Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on … of additional motives and to test these statistically. As we find, municipalities do not regularly evaluate the service … provision of their activities. Only in case of structural underperformance, municipalities consider a change of service provider …