Local public services delivery mechanisms : a literature review

Petkovšek, Veronika (author), Hrovatin, Nevenka (author), Pevcin, Primož (author)

The paper presents a systematic literature review on local public services delivery mechanisms, in-house provisions, privatization and inter-municipal cooperation, for the period 2007 to 2018, with the aim of reviewing the development of the area under study, identifying which delivery mechanism dominates in a given period, and determining which economic research focus dominates in the area under study. Possible effects on economies of scale, cost reductions, efficiency, and other economic, political, institutional, and social factors in the provision of local public services are examined using a content analytical breakdown. The results show that most of the studies are country studies and, especially in recent years, empirical studies. The choice of local public services delivery mechanisms is mainly influenced by the size of local government, the efficiency of service provision, the available resources and the institutional framework. Politics and market competition also play a role in the decision-making process. Following the recent financial and economic crisis, inter-municipal cooperation is increasingly being researched as an efficient form of service provision.

• Language: English
• Keywords: in-house provision, privatization, inter-municipal cooperation, literature review, content analysis
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 39-64
• Numbering: Vol. 19, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-124769
• UDC: 352
• ISSN on article: 1581-5374
• DOI: 10.4335/19.1.39-64(2021)
• COBISS.SI-ID: 49114115
• Publication date in RUL: 16.02.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Lex localis : revija za lokalno samoupravo = journal of local self-government
• Shortened title: Lex localis
• Publisher: Lex localis
• ISSN: 1581-5374
• COBISS.SI-ID: 121916928

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.
• Licensing start date: 16.02.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: javni servis, privatizacija, medobčinsko sodelovanje, pregled literature, analiza vsebine