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Commercialization of Local Public Services

Commercialization of Local Public Services

Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros, Isabel María García-Sánchez, Jennifer Martínez-Ferrero
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781522598602|ISBN10: 152259860X|EISBN13: 9781522598619
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9860-2.ch090
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Cuadrado-Ballesteros, Beatriz, et al. "Commercialization of Local Public Services." Open Government: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 1953-1971. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9860-2.ch090

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Cuadrado-Ballesteros, B., García-Sánchez, I. M., & Martínez-Ferrero, J. (2020). Commercialization of Local Public Services. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Open Government: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1953-1971). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9860-2.ch090

Chicago

Cuadrado-Ballesteros, Beatriz, Isabel María García-Sánchez, and Jennifer Martínez-Ferrero. "Commercialization of Local Public Services." In Open Government: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1953-1971. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9860-2.ch090

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Abstract

The most important reason to decentralise the public services delivery is to make the citizens' needs better known by the local governments, so it follows to act more efficiently to their satisfaction. Nonetheless it has been found an opportunistic use of these agencies to avoid legal limits on indebtedness imposed on sub-national administrations, generating fiscal illusion. Accordingly, the aim of this study is to analyse the effect of the functional decentralisation processes on public revenues and financing. The results show that the use of decentralisation process, especially companies are created by left-wing political parties in order to raise more income from commercialization of public services. It was also found that these practices are strongly linked to the municipality's fiscal pressure.

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