Drivers of service delivery modes in Dutch local government: an analysis over time and across domains

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Abstract

This study investigates the influence of service, financial and political characteristics on municipalities’ choices of four service delivery modes in the Dutch local government setting, thereby making a distinction between services in the physical and in the operational domain. It shows that, overall, use of inter-municipal cooperation and, to a lesser extent, municipality-owned firms increased substantially from 2010 to 2018. For use of private firms, we find remarkable differences. Whereas this use increased for the physical domain, it decreased for the operational domain. For both domains, we find that in-house production decreased substantially. We also find that the influence of especially transaction cost characteristics on the likelihood that municipalities choose a certain institutional form differs between 2010 and 2018, as well as between the physical and the operational domain.
Original languageEnglish
Article number2
Pages (from-to)425–439
Number of pages15
JournalInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
Volume87
Issue number3
Early online date19 Nov 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Aug 2021

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