Higuera-Molina, EJDL;
Esteve, M;
Plata-Díaz, AM;
Zafra-Gómez, JL;
(2021)
The political hourglass: opportunistic behavior in local government policy decisions.
International Public Management Journal
10.1080/10967494.2021.1905117.
(In press).
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Abstract
The aim of this article is to determine whether there is opportunistic behavior in local government decisions related to contracting out, public-private partnership (PPP) and/or public externalization. Analysis of the results obtained from applying a fixed effects panel data model to a sample of 2,274 Spanish municipalities supports the existence of asymmetric opportunistic behavior. Specifically, there is strong evidence that in preelection years, there is less likelihood of contracting out and PPP decisions being approved, and a greater probability of public externalization taking place. In post-election years, an increase in capital spending is associated with a lower probability of contracting out and of PPP. An increase in current spending in preelection years reduces the probability of decisions being taken on contracting out and PPP. These empirical results highlight the extent of opportunistic behavior in selecting management forms for the delivery of local government services.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The political hourglass: opportunistic behavior in local government policy decisions |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10967494.2021.1905117 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2021.1905117 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright 2021 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10125748 |
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