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Did new public management matter? : an empirical analysis of the outsourcing and decentralization effects on public sector size
Alonso, José M.; Clifton, Judith; Díaz Fuentes, Daniel - In: Public management review 17 (2015) 5, pp. 643-660
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The economic approach to political borders
Spolaore, Enrico - 2022
This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473678
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Fiscal decentralization and budgetary discipline: lessons for Spain from other countries’ experience
Sorribas-Navarro, Sorribas-Navarro , Pilar - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2009) 16, pp. 219-246
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of fiscal decentralization on subcentral governments’ budgetary … decentralization can discipline the subcentral governments’ budgetary decisions, as it happens, for instance, in the USA, Canada and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010841057
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The Economic Approach to Political Borders
Spolaore, Enrico - 2022
This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290075
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Foot Voting, Decentralization, and Development
Somin, Ilya - 2019
We can enhance development by making it easier for people to “vote with their feet” between jurisdictions. Few, if any, policy reforms can achieve such enormous increases in economic growth and opportunity. Foot voting is, in several crucial respects, a better mechanism of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899463
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Evolution of fiscal decentralisation in OECD countries : a club convergence analysis
Delgado, Francisco J.; Presno, María José - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 25 (2023) 63, pp. 558-574
We study the fiscal decentralisation patterns in OECD countries through a club convergence approach. Our analysis covers 30 countries spanning 1995 to 2018 and considers the noncentral expenditure and revenue sides with two perspectives, as percentage of GDP and as percentage of the total...
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Fiscal decentralization, ideology, and the size of the public sector
Baskaran, T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
No consensus has yet emerged on whether fiscal decentralization facilitates or impedes the growth of the public sector …. One explanation for this ambiguity in the literature is that the effect of fiscal decentralization on public sector size … between fiscal decentralization and the ideology of the government may influence the size of the public sector. Thereafter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004206
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How outsourcing can contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness in the public sector : some indicators about Portugal
Marques, Maria da Conceic̜ão da Costa - In: Problems of management in the 21st century 11 (2016) 2, pp. 93-106
Outsourcing is a practice used by different companies to reduce costs by transferring working with outside suppliers … rather than performing them internally. Cutting costs are presented as a key benefit in hiring an outsourcing service …-core activities. The study presented here is an early stage of research to be developed on outsourcing in Portugal and its position in …
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The impact of public services outsourcing on work and employment conditions in different national regimes
Mori, Anna - In: European journal of industrial relations 23 (2017) 4, pp. 347-364
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011861680
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Verwaltungsmodernisierung und dezentrale Korruption : Lernen aus unbeabsichtigten Konsequenzen
Maravić, Patrick von - 2007 - 1. Aufl.
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