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Juan Carlos Garrido-Rodríguez
Bio: Juan Carlos Garrido-Rodríguez is an academic researcher from University of Granada. The author has contributed to research in topics: Transparency (behavior) & Cost efficiency. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 6 publications receiving 65 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered elements of long-term financial condition and ideological and political strength, together with other socioeconomic factors and the effects of the current global financial crisis, to address the financial stress-privatisation relationship, with respect to urban water services, observed during the period 2002-2012 in Spanish municipalities.
Abstract: Financial and political factors are widely considered to be an explanatory factor of the privatisation of public services. However, the empirical evidence in this respect is not convincing. This paper considers elements of long-term financial condition and ideological and political strength, together with other socio-economic factors and the effects of the current global financial crisis, to address the financial stress–privatisation relationship, with respect to urban water services, observed during the period 2002–2012 in Spanish municipalities. A discrete time survival model is applied, and the results obtained show that certain elements of financial condition, together with political and ideological factors, are decisive influences in decisions to privatise urban water services. We also highlight the major impact of the Great Recession and its effect on the financial stress–privatisation relationship.
44 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conduct an analysis of the elements of public finances that favor the contracting out of social services, together with political and socioeconomic issues, and show that while most indicators of a worsening financial condition, along with the neighborhood effect and a conservative political ideology, increase the likelihood of contracting out taking place, the "Austerity Machine" is not associated with a greater probability of social care being contracted out in larger municipalities.
Abstract: The aim of this study was to conduct an analysis of the elements of public finances that favor the contracting out of social services, together with political and socioeconomic issues. The results obtained reflect the existence of significant differences in this respect according to the size of the municipal population, and show that while most indicators of a worsening financial condition, together with the neighborhood effect and a conservative political ideology, increase the likelihood of contracting out taking place, the “Austerity Machine” is not, in fact, associated with a greater probability of social care being contracted out in larger municipalities.
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TL;DR: The results obtained show that on average local managers disclose information corresponding to 60% of the indicators considered, but that only 52% of these indicators of transparency present a moderate or considerable depth of content, reflecting a pattern of limited information disclosure.
13 citations
01 Sep 2018
TL;DR: The presente trabajo propone un nuevo metodo for obtener una evaluacion a largo plazo de la eficiencia of the estimación of fronteras parciales robustas orden-m as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: El presente trabajo propone un nuevo metodo para obtener una evaluacion a largo plazo de la eficiencia
mediante la estimacion de fronteras parciales robustas orden-m, aplicando fronteras globales y fronteras locales. La aplicacion al servicio de recogida de residuos para el periodo (2002-2010) permite obtener indicadores de eficiencia que no varian en funcion del ano analizado, mejorando la toma de decisiones en relacion con la eleccion de las formas de gestion de los servicios publicos. Los resultados
sugieren el uso de formulas privatizadas para los ayuntamientos de mayor tamano, y de formulas de
cooperacion para los ayuntamientos de menor tamano.
9 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a new method to measure the quality and content of municipal information disclosure, avoiding the creation of a synthetic index, highlighting the elements of transparency that provide optimal information, in quality and quantity.
Abstract: During the last years, Transparency has become in a key element in the interaction between public administrations and society. However, this is a broad concept, which needs to be defined and measured carefully. Various authors have addressed this concept, from the perspective of different areas, through the creation of dichotomous indexes of transparency, but not measuring the quality of the information. In the present study, we propose a new method to measure the quality and content of municipal information disclosure, avoiding the creation of a synthetic index, highlighting the elements of transparency that provide optimal information, in quality and quantity. After that, we identify differences between local governments with different political ideologies, using multidimensional scaling analysis. The results obtained show that conservative governments grant more importance to transparency indicators, especially regarding legal and institutional information, than progressive ones.
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TL;DR: The metafrontier approach is used to analyse the efficiency of different ways of managing waste collection services, in order to determine which form is more appropriate, and suggests that cooperation formulas are the most suitable for the waste collection service.
95 citations
TL;DR: The influence of fiscal stress, cost considerations, scale economies as well as transaction costs and political partisan interests on local privatisation has been investigated in many European countries in the last decade as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: 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 using more refined empirical techniques have made possible to enhance our understanding of the dynamics of local privatisation, particularly in many European countries. The influence of fiscal stress, cost considerations – scale economies as well as transaction costs – and political partisan interests is usually confirmed. Furthermore, ideological attitudes appear to be more influential than they seemed to be, particularly when considering social services, rather than the technical ones.
77 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed shifts in the delivery mode of waste collection in Dutch municipalities between 1999 and 2014 and found that 60% of the shifts were toward outsourced waste collection.
Abstract: This article analyzes shifts in the delivery mode of waste collection in Dutch municipalities between 1999 and 2014. In approximately half of these entities, shifts took place, with 60% toward outs...
53 citations