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Austerity, political control and supplier selection in English local government: implications for autonomy in multi-level systems.
- Source :
- Public Management Review; Jan2023, Vol. 25 Issue 1, p1-21, 21p, 3 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2023
-
Abstract
- Analysis of 60,000 contracts awarded by English councils between 2015–19 reveals that austerity constraints are a key predictor of councils outsourcing services to for-profit suppliers, regardless of their political control. Conservative Party-controlled councils are also more likely to contract with for-profit suppliers, although we found no link between Labour-controlled councils and not-for-profit suppliers, nor evidence that political or budgetary factors influence whether councils contract with providers based in their own region. We argue that centrally imposed funding cuts, and a belief that for-profit suppliers represent a cheaper option, could be overriding Labour Party councils' ideological preference for not-for-profit providers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- AUSTERITY
LOCAL government
SUPPLIERS
PUBLIC contracts
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14719037
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Public Management Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160967801
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2021.1930122