• openAccess   Budget transparency in local governments 

      Giménez Perona, Paloma Universitat Jaume I (2014-06-20)
      This work will study the socio-demographic determinants, political, budgetary and economic, that affect the transparency of local entities. To perform the study, we have chosen the transparency index data for the 110 ...
    • openAccess   Campesinos pobres y absolutismo reformista 

      Windler-Dirisio, Christian Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (1994-06)
      El artículo estudia los conflictos originados a partir de los años `60 del siglo XVIII en dos señoríos bajo-andaluces de la Casa de Osuna (Osuna y Morón de la Frontera), a raíz de la puesta en práctica de las Provisiones ...
    • openAccess   Challenges involved in the Localization of the Sustainable Developments Goals in El Salvador Between 2015-19 and for Implementing the 2030 Agenda 

      Pérez-Hernández, Lisandro; Caballer Miedes, Antonio Universidad de El Salvador (2020)
      Since becoming a signatory of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, El Salvador has endeavored to incorporate these international commitments into its programmatic f ramework, its Five-Year Development ...
    • closedAccess   Decentralization and efficiency of local government 

      Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Springer-Verlag (2010)
      This study analyzes the links between efficiency and the decentralization of power in Spanish local governments for the years 1995 and 2000. To this end, we carried out a two-stage activity analysis in which the performance ...
    • closedAccess   Evaluating local government performance in times of crisis 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Taylor and Francis Group (2019)
      In recent years, Spanish local governments have come under increasing pressure to accommodate severe economic restrictions while maintaining their provision of local public services. We analyse overall cost efficiency in ...
    • closedAccess   Explaining local governments' cost efficiency: Controllable and uncontrollable factors 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Arribas, Iván; Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2020-05)
      Efficient and effective management of public resources is essential at all levels of government. This issue has gained momentum due to the strains that affected public sector finances after the onset of the 2007/08 crisis ...
    • openAccess   Local governments' efficiency: a systematic literature review- part II 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; De Witte, Kristof Wiley (2017-02)
      The efficient management of the available resources in local governments has been a topic of high interest in the field of public sector. We provide an extensive and comprehensive review of the existing literature on local ...
    • openAccess   Local governments' efficiency: A systematic literature review—part I 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; De Witte, Kristof Wiley (2017-02)
      The efficient management of the available resources in local governments has been a topic of high interest in the field of public sector. We provide an extensive and comprehensive review of the existing literature on local ...
    • openAccess   Searching for the optimal territorial structure: the case of Spanish provincial councils 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Taylor and Francis Group (2019)
      Modern states are organized in multi-level governance structures with economic and political authorities dispersed across them. However, although there is relatively widespread consensus that this form of organization ...
    • closedAccess   The impact of women’s leadership in local governments: the case of Spain 

      Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Ivanova-Toneva, Mariya Routledge (2021-03-26)
      The main objective of this article is to analyze whether the gender of the mayor and the municipal council members affects compliance with the principles of budgetary stability and financial sustainability established in ...
    • openAccess   Which estimator to measure local governments’ costefficiency? The case of Spanish municipalities 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Petrovic, Marko; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Springer Verlag (2019)
      WeanalyseoverallcostefficiencyinSpanishlocalgovernmentsduringthecrisisperiod(2008–2015). To this end, we first consider some of the most popular nonparametricmethods to evaluate local government efficiency, data envelopment ...