New Forms of Local Governance

Tavares, António F.; Camões, Pedro J.

doi:10.1080/14719031003633193

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“…Rule of leftwing political parties is found to be related to public delivery, while rightwing political parties can be linked to contracting out and privatisation (Bel and Fageda 2010;Gradus, Dijkgraaf and Wassenaar 2014;Tavares and Camões 2010). A third political motive for putting public service delivery at arm's length, in particular, type 2 and 3 ALBs, is political instability to avoid service disruptions or to shift blame to external providers (Bordeaux 2004;Rodrigues, Tavares, and De Araújo 2012;Tavares 2017;Tavares and Camões 2010). By putting public services at arm's length, politicians may try to avoid blame when performance is pooralthough in practice this is quite difficult as citizens often still anticipate the government to intervene (Van Slyke and Roch 2004).…”

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“…Such forms included municipally owned corporations and mixed firms (type 2 and 3 ALBs). Particularly municipally owned corporations have become increasingly popular (Grossi and Reichard 2008;Tavares 2017;Tavares and Camoes 2007;Tavares and Camões 2010;Voorn, Van Thiel, and Van Genugten 2018). Whether their creation has led to a more effective and efficient public service delivery is however not evident.…”

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Local governments and their arm’s length bodies

Genugten

Thiel

Voorn

2019

Local Government Studies

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In this paper, we discuss the state of the art on the creation of arm's length bodies (ALBs) by local governments. We make three main contributions. First, there are many different types of ALBs and each country has its own categories; an expert survey was held identifying three common types of body, to enable future comparative research. Second, we point out that the creation of ALBs has led to a number of new challenges for local governments, particularly regarding governing bodies at arm's length to ensure ALBs' good performance. A lack of capacity and information have to be countered, for example, by increased monitoringalso for democratic accountability purposes. Special attention is needed for the multiple principal problem that arises when local governments jointly create ALBs. Third, research into local ALBs is still in its early stages. We present a research agenda to develop knowledge on the topic.

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Section: Factors Explaining the Choice For Service Delivery Via Albsmentioning

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Section: Performance Of Albsmentioning

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Local governments and their arm’s length bodies

Genugten

Thiel

Voorn

2019

Local Government Studies

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“…MOCs differ from other public sector institutions as they feature appointed executive boards and have an independent corporate status (Bel, Dijkgraaf, Fageda, & Gradus, 2010; Bel, Fageda, & Mur, 2014). MOCs are typically identified as single‐purpose organizations operating under private law (Bel, Dijkgraaf, Fageda, & Gradus, 2010; Bel & Fageda, 2010; Warner & Bel, 2008), but they can also act as multipurpose ones (Bognetti & Robotti, 2007; Tavares & Camões, 2007, 2010). Because ownership can be transferred, MOCs can facilitate cooperation among municipalities and between them and the private sector (Voorn, Van Genugten, & Van Thiel, 2017).…”

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The effect of ownership on sustainable development and environmental policy in urban waste management: An explicatory empirical analysis of Italian municipal corporations

2020

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This paper investigates the effect of ownership on sustainable development and environmental policy in Italian municipally owned corporations (MOCs) dealing with urban waste management, trying to understand if multiple ownership can generate better performance compared to single ownership and if the presence of private partners could be crucial in this. The research question is answered by analyzing 41 MOCs of the largest Italian cities operating in urban waste management. In this specific sector, public administrations have tried to improve their offer in terms of sustainable development, environmental policy, and efficiency. The paper covers the Italian case study, where urban waste production per capita is higher than the European average figure. The waste cycle management service is operated in Italy at local level through totally publicly owned companies (monoadministration or multiadministration), mixed (public–private) companies, or via a full externalization achieved by means of public tenders. Through a multinomial ordered probit panel, we show that MOCs with multiple owners perform better than those having a single owner and perform much better with the presence of a private partner, confirming those academic findings according to which collaborative arrangements can increase efficiency, do better than public sector bureaucracy, and lower the costs of service provision. The results of this paper can be used by academics, practitioners, and policy makers alike. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only study that applies this perspective to the analysis of the current international waste management scenario with relation to MOCs having multiple ownerships.

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“…In recent decades, this journal has highlighted the numerous ways in which public bodies have developed and adopted different service delivery models (Tavares and Camões 2010;Allen et al 2016;Isaksson, Blomqvist, and Winblad 2018;Mazzei et al 2020;Warner, Aldag, and Kim 2020). Studies have found that the default approach is now to outsource services in many countries, rather than rely on in-house provision (Nemec, Merickova, and Vitek 2005;Guo and Ho 2019).…”

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Austerity, political control and supplier selection in English local government: implications for autonomy in multi-level systems

Eckersley

Flynn

Ferry

et al. 2021

Public Management Review

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Analysis of 60,000 contracts awarded by English councils between 2015-19 reveals that austerity constraints are a key predictor of councils outsourcing services to forprofit suppliers, regardless of their political control. Conservative Party-controlled councils are also more likely to contract with for-profit suppliers, although we found no link between Labour-controlled councils and not-for-profit suppliers, nor evidence that political or budgetary factors influence whether councils contract with providers based in their own region. We argue that centrally imposed funding cuts, and a belief that for-profit suppliers represent a cheaper option, could be overriding Labour Party councils' ideological preference for not-for-profit providers.

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New Forms of Local Governance

Cited by 71 publications

References 35 publications

Local governments and their arm’s length bodies

Local governments and their arm’s length bodies

The effect of ownership on sustainable development and environmental policy in urban waste management: An explicatory empirical analysis of Italian municipal corporations

Austerity, political control and supplier selection in English local government: implications for autonomy in multi-level systems

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