Municipal service delivery: the role of transaction costs in the choice between alternative governance mechanisms

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Main Author: Rodrigues, Miguel
Publication Date: 2012
Other Authors: Tavares, António F., Araújo, Joaquim Filipe
Format: Article
Language: eng
Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
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Summary: Service provision by local governments can be delivered using in-house bureaucracies, private firms, and partnerships with other governments or the not-for-profit sector. This production decision has been a major focus of discussion among scholars, practitioners and political agents for the last quarter of a century. The transaction costs framework is an important tool to analyse decisions regarding the production of local services. In this paper, the authors employ this framework to analyse service delivery in Portugal and find that service characteristics and the local political environment play a key role in local officials’ choice among the three governance mechanisms to deliver public services
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title Municipal service delivery: the role of transaction costs in the choice between alternative governance mechanisms
spellingShingle Municipal service delivery: the role of transaction costs in the choice between alternative governance mechanisms
Rodrigues, Miguel
Transactions cost
Service delivery
Governance mechanisms
transaction costs
Social Sciences
title_short Municipal service delivery: the role of transaction costs in the choice between alternative governance mechanisms
title_full Municipal service delivery: the role of transaction costs in the choice between alternative governance mechanisms
title_fullStr Municipal service delivery: the role of transaction costs in the choice between alternative governance mechanisms
title_full_unstemmed Municipal service delivery: the role of transaction costs in the choice between alternative governance mechanisms
title_sort Municipal service delivery: the role of transaction costs in the choice between alternative governance mechanisms
author Rodrigues, Miguel
author_facet Rodrigues, Miguel
Tavares, António F.
Araújo, Joaquim Filipe
author_role author
author2 Tavares, António F.
Araújo, Joaquim Filipe
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Rodrigues, Miguel
Tavares, António F.
Araújo, Joaquim Filipe
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Transactions cost
Service delivery
Governance mechanisms
transaction costs
Social Sciences
topic Transactions cost
Service delivery
Governance mechanisms
transaction costs
Social Sciences
description Service provision by local governments can be delivered using in-house bureaucracies, private firms, and partnerships with other governments or the not-for-profit sector. This production decision has been a major focus of discussion among scholars, practitioners and political agents for the last quarter of a century. The transaction costs framework is an important tool to analyse decisions regarding the production of local services. In this paper, the authors employ this framework to analyse service delivery in Portugal and find that service characteristics and the local political environment play a key role in local officials’ choice among the three governance mechanisms to deliver public services
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