Bel, G;
Belerdas-Castro, A;
(2022)
Provision and production reform of urban fire services: privatization, cooperation and costs.
Public Management Review
, 24
(9)
pp. 1331-1354.
10.1080/14719037.2021.1886317.
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Abstract
With the objective of expanding fire protection services to cover sparsely populated areas, an important reform has been implemented in the region of Galicia (Spain) over the two last decades, involving cooperation at county level and provincial level for service provision, and privatization of the service production. This article analyses that reform, and empirically studies whether privatization and cooperation have had any significant effect on costs incurred by the government for fire service provision. Our results suggest that cooperation is an efficient tool for expanding the service. However, we do not find a significant relationship between privatization and costs.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Provision and production reform of urban fire services: privatization, cooperation and costs |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14719037.2021.1886317 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2021.1886317 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Fire services, privatization, inter-municipal cooperation, local public services |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10123040 |
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