How politics influence public good provision

Titl, Vítězslav; Witte, Kristof De

doi:10.1016/j.seps.2020.101000

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“…(2002) and Daraio and Simar (2007) with the introduction of robust and conditional models as they allow to investigate the effect of possible environmental variables on the efficiency scores, without assuming the separability condition. Despite attractive features of the conditional efficiency approach (see De Witte and Kortelainen, 2013), they have been used merely in education (Cherchye et al., 2007a; Haelermans and De Witte, 2012; De Witte et al., 2013b; Cordero et al., 2018; D'Inverno et al., 2021), local government (Asatryan and De Witte, 2015; Cordero et al., 2017; Titl and De Witte, 2021), and innovation (Halkos and Tzeremes, 2013) applications. The absence of a wider diffusion can be partly attributed to the fact that conditional models rely on a sophisticated theoretical apparatus and partly to the fact that at the moment no statistical software provide built‐in procedure to implement conditional analysis.…”

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“…From the perspective of the level of analysis, a consistent portion of these studies involves the evaluation of regional policies (Shi and Yang, 2008; Halkos and Tzeremes, 2010b, 2011b; Vieira et al., 2018; Natesan and Marathe, 2017; Titl and De Witte, 2021), with a special attention given to the study case of Spain (Zabala‐Iturriagagoitia et al., 2007; López et al., 2008), while the majority of the other studies focuses on the municipal and provincial levels (Broersma et al., 2013; Asatryan and De Witte, 2015; Cordero et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2019; Ma et al., 2020).…”

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Policy evaluation and efficiency: a systematic literature review

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Witte

2021

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This paper provides a systematic literature review of studies investigating the effect of an intervention on the efficiency of a decision-making unit, when efficiency is computed using nonparametric frontier approaches. This paper offers a guide for future research by identifying patterns in (1) the fields of application, (2) applied efficiency models, and (3) analysis of efficiency determinants. Our findings indicate that, despite the prominent role of frontier techniques in the analysis of public sector performances and the importance of the effectiveness and the policy perspective, these two approaches have long been kept separate. Nevertheless, the combination of efficiency and effectiveness is fundamental to evaluate public interventions and to detect inefficiencies at the policy level, especially in key sectors such as education, health, and environment.

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Policy evaluation and efficiency: a systematic literature review

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2021

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“…Interest in the study of local government efficiency and its determinants has intensified in recent years (Moreno and Lozano, 2018). Specifically, the past economic and financial crisis has driven the need for improvements in efficiency and reduction of costs in the provision of public services at all levels of public administration, including local (Andrews and Boyne, 2011) and regional governments (Titl and De Witte, 2021). Consequently, measuring efficiency is essential for evaluating the results of local public policies (Lo Storto, 2016).…”

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Local government efficiency: reviewing determinants and setting new trends

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López

Valenciano

2021

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This paper has reviewed the international literature on the explaining factors of efficiency of local governments from 1990 to June 2019. The main objective of this work is to explore the dynamics of the development of this line of research, not only to find out the terminology preferences that have dominated the pre-and post-crisis period in this field but also to identify the latest worldwide research trends. For this purpose, a bibliometric and cluster analysis by fractional accounting has been carried out. The principal result of this article is twofold. First, during the whole period 1990-2019, the ranking of the most used terms is dominated by the keywords of the publications in the second subperiod 2008-2019. Second, the analysis of the latest trends, which has been extended until June 2021, shows that in recent years, the study of the determinants of local government efficiency has revolved around concepts related to environmental issues and new forms of local management.

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