Politicians use a variety of expectations to justify the delegation of public services to public,
semi-public or private organizations. This article reveals expectations of delegation, as well …

Austerity and fiscal crisis make the search for cost‐saving reforms in local government more
critical. While cost savings from privatization have frequently proven ephemeral, inter …

Capturing the benefits of competition is a key argument for outsourcing public services, yet
public service markets often lack sufficient competition. The authors use survey and …

Inter-municipal cooperation is an important public service delivery reform, whose drivers
move beyond simple concerns with costs and economic efficiency, to policy issues related to …

With the increase in public services offered at the local level and heightened budgetary and
financial constraints on local government, new ways of managing local public services must …

Inter-municipal cooperation in public service delivery has attracted the interest of local
authorities seeking to reform public service provision. Cost saving, together with better …

Since the Great Recession, some have argued that local governments have become
'austerity machines' that cut and privatize services and undermine unions. We conducted a …

Scholarly empirical studies on factors that motivate local privatisation have greatly grown in
the last decade. As well, having available better and more comprehensive databases and …

Considerable research has been devoted to the analysis of efficiency and of management
forms for municipal waste collection, but widely varying results have been reported. In this …

The main aim of this study is to identify the most efficient forms of management for municipal
water supply services, taking into account exogenous factors. The study is based on a …