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The use of public–private partnership arrangements by public authorities has been a hot topic in recent literature. Both practitioners and academics stress the need to expose best practices and develop guidelines to cope with these... more
The use of public–private partnership arrangements by public authorities has been a hot topic in recent literature. Both practitioners and academics stress the need to expose best practices and develop guidelines to cope with these complex governance structures. Nonetheless, research on the specific case of mixed companies (institutionalised public–private partnerships) has been somewhat neglected. This paper discusses the rationale behind the use of these arrangements by local governments. Although theoretically the model has some merits, in practice it usually fails in protecting the public interest.
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In this paper we contribute to the literature on government transparency by attempting to provide an answer to the question of what drives in local government transparency levels. Our main objective is to discern whether transparency is... more
In this paper we contribute to the literature on government transparency by attempting to provide an answer to the question of what drives in local government transparency levels. Our main objective is to discern whether transparency is mainly driven by the leadership, capacity and other political traits of the local governments themselves ("supply-side determinants") or, on the other hand, is contingent upon social, cultural and/or other exogenous factors ("demand-side" determinants). We test the hypotheses derived from this theoretical framework using the results of the newly developed Municipal Transparency Index (MTI) which was applied to all Portuguese municipalities for the first time in 2013. Preliminary findings indicate that municipalities run by male mayors, with a larger number of consecutive terms in office, and larger margins of victory in local elections display lower levels of transparency. On the demand-side, the unemployment rate and the average age of the municipal population emerge as the best predictors and are both negatively associated with transparency.