Arbeitspapier
Political Preferences and Public Sector Outsourcing
There are several theoretical accounts of public sector outsourcing. We note that leading theories give different predictions of the influence of political variables and test the predictions on a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies between municipalities and over time as well as between services. Our identification strategy focuses on two services with similar contracting problems and local market conditions: preschools and primary schools. We study a period in which Swedish municipalities had full discretion in the provision of preschools, while their influence on the provision of primary education was limited by a national voucher system. The comparison of preschools and primary schools in a difference-in-differences model suggests that the political color of the ruling majority matters for outsourcing, which is consistent with the citizen candidate model of representative democracy.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 877
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Publicly Provided Goods: General
Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out
- Thema
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Outsourcing
Ideology
Public provision
Contracting out
Politische Entscheidung
Kommunale Dienstleistung
Outsourcing
Schweden
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Elinder, Mikael
Jordahl, Henrik
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
- (wo)
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Stockholm
- (wann)
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2011
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Elinder, Mikael
- Jordahl, Henrik
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Entstanden
- 2011
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