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The role of transaction costs in the delivering of urban infrastructure services: an overview of brazilian and portuguese municipalities

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dc.contributor.authorLucca, Paulo Vitor
dc.contributor.authorCosta, Cláudia S.
dc.contributor.authorGuimarães, Inácio Andruski
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-02T09:00:09Z
dc.date.available2020-09-02T09:00:09Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThe present paper explores the different options for delivering public services by Portuguese and Brazilian municipalities. With reduction of human and financial resources and increase in demand, large municipalities need efficient arrangements to deliver public services. In fact, the conditions for providing these services influence the quality of life, the economic development and are directly related to the capacity of institutions to find the most appropriate governance mechanisms. In this context, the use of Transaction Costs Theory (TCT), specifically economic and political costs, reveals an appropriated tool to understand the ways how public services can be delivered. Existing research and theory point out several studies around the world that analyze how different governance mechanism’s choice (hierarchy, market and network) can be explained based on TCT. This paper contributes to expand this topic to Brazilian’s municipalities context, due to the lack of studies in this country. Contrariwise, there are more studies about Portuguese’s municipalities, but as a dynamic process, it’s becomes interesting update such studies in order to expand the existing database. In this sense we addressed a preliminary step whose objective is to identify the different options for public service delivery, finding similarities and differences in these two countries, following a qualitative approach. As results, we find that governance mechanisms adopted by two countries are very similar. The differences result from regional level in Brazil that allows recourse to state's business sector, as opposed to Portugal. In turn, Portuguese municipalities have several options that result from municipal associations, options that are more limited in Brazilian case.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationLucca, Paulo Vitor; Costa, Cláudia S.; Guimarães, Inácio Andruski (2020). The role of transaction costs in the delivering of urban infrastructure services: an overview of brazilian and portuguese municipalities. In ECPR General Conference Online.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/22699
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectTransaction costs theorypt_PT
dc.subjectGovernance mechanismspt_PT
dc.subjectMunicipal service deliverypt_PT
dc.titleThe role of transaction costs in the delivering of urban infrastructure services: an overview of brazilian and portuguese municipalitiespt_PT
dc.typeconference paper
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.titleECPR General Conference Online, Virtual Eventpt_PT
person.familyNameCosta
person.givenNameCláudia S.
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person.identifier.orcid0000-0001-8294-2218
person.identifier.ridAAL-4392-2020
person.identifier.scopus-author-id25624613800
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