Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik - In: European Journal of Political Economy 30 (2013) C, pp. 43-57
, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain government outsourcing by the pursuit of … economic efficiency. Starting out from different theories, we investigate political explanations of government outsourcing … using a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies between municipalities and over time, as well as between services. Our …