Municipal service delivery: the role of transaction costs in the choice between alternative governance mechanisms

Service provision by local governments can be delivered using in-house bureaucracies, private firms, and partnerships with other governments or the not-for-profit sector. This production decision has been a major focus of discussion among scholars, practitioners and political agents for the last qua...

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Main Author: Rodrigues, Miguel (author)
Other Authors: Tavares, António F. (author), Araújo, J. Filipe (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10198/6895
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt:10198/6895