Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery

Inter-municipal cooperation is often regarded as an alternative to privatizing local public services. But cooperation and privatization can also be combined into a dual reform package in which several municipalities jointly issue contracts for multiple jurisdictions. Evaluation of these mixed cooper...

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Autores: Bel i Queralt, Germà, 1963-, Elston, Thomas
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Cooperació interterritorial
Privatització
Administració local
Política ambiental
Interstate cooperation
Privatization
Local government
Environmental policy
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spelling Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service deliveryBel i Queralt, Germà, 1963-Elston, ThomasCooperació interterritorialPrivatitzacióAdministració localPolítica ambientalInterstate cooperationPrivatizationLocal governmentEnvironmental policyInter-municipal cooperation is often regarded as an alternative to privatizing local public services. But cooperation and privatization can also be combined into a dual reform package in which several municipalities jointly issue contracts for multiple jurisdictions. Evaluation of these mixed cooperation-privatization reforms rests on disentangling the separate and combined effects of each strategy. This we undertake for the case of solid waste collection in the Spanish region of Catalonia, using environmental protection as our focal performance standard. Drawing on two waves of data (for 2000 and 2019) for 186 municipalities that between them use all four combinations of public, private, single and cooperative service delivery, we show that superior environmental performance was initially confined to conventional cooperations involving only public production. But latterly, any form of cooperation, using public or private production, resulted in significant gains. This reinforces the need for evaluators to isolate the “active ingredient” in composite reformsJohn Wiley & Sons2024202420242024info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion23 p.application/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/217094Articles publicats en revistes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12992Public Administration, 2024, vol. 102, num.4, p. 1624-1646https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12992(c) John Wiley & Sons, 2024http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:2445/2170942026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery
title Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery
spellingShingle Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery
Bel i Queralt, Germà, 1963-
Cooperació interterritorial
Privatització
Administració local
Política ambiental
Interstate cooperation
Privatization
Local government
Environmental policy
title_short Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery
title_full Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery
title_fullStr Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery
title_full_unstemmed Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery
title_sort Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bel i Queralt, Germà, 1963-
Elston, Thomas
author Bel i Queralt, Germà, 1963-
author_facet Bel i Queralt, Germà, 1963-
Elston, Thomas
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Cooperació interterritorial
Privatització
Administració local
Política ambiental
Interstate cooperation
Privatization
Local government
Environmental policy
topic Cooperació interterritorial
Privatització
Administració local
Política ambiental
Interstate cooperation
Privatization
Local government
Environmental policy
description Inter-municipal cooperation is often regarded as an alternative to privatizing local public services. But cooperation and privatization can also be combined into a dual reform package in which several municipalities jointly issue contracts for multiple jurisdictions. Evaluation of these mixed cooperation-privatization reforms rests on disentangling the separate and combined effects of each strategy. This we undertake for the case of solid waste collection in the Spanish region of Catalonia, using environmental protection as our focal performance standard. Drawing on two waves of data (for 2000 and 2019) for 186 municipalities that between them use all four combinations of public, private, single and cooperative service delivery, we show that superior environmental performance was initially confined to conventional cooperations involving only public production. But latterly, any form of cooperation, using public or private production, resulted in significant gains. This reinforces the need for evaluators to isolate the “active ingredient” in composite reforms
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Public Administration, 2024, vol. 102, num.4, p. 1624-1646
https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12992
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