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 …

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 aim of this manuscript is analyse the long-term scale efficiency of the solid waste
disposal service, with the application of a new method for calculating time-invariant and time …

Intermunicipal cooperation is being increasingly adopted in various countries as a part of
local service delivery reforms. This article draws on survey data from Spain's municipalities …

The paper presents a systematic literature review on local public services delivery
mechanisms, in-house provisions, privatization and inter-municipal cooperation, for the …

Identifying and characterising the factors that determine why a local authority opts for a
particular way of managing its waste collection service is an important issue, warranting …

Since the late 1970s, water services have been privatised in some developed countries in
an attempt to improve performance. However, after three decades of privatisations the …

This article analyzes the factors that directly influence levels of debt in Spanish local
governments. Specifically, the main objective is to find out the extent to which indebtedness …

This paper studies the influence of ideology and political motives on the choice of
management for urban water services. Our contribution is two-fold. Firstly, we use a …