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Anuário do sector empresarial do Estado 2011

Um dos temas de debate político em Portugal reside no Setor Empresarial do Estado (SEE), pela sua dimensão, despesas no PIB,resultados (positivos ou negativos) e ainda os passivos. A discussão sobre esta temática aumentou desde que Portugal,no âmbito do acordo celebrado entre o governo português e a TROIKA, assumiu o compromisso de reduzir este setor. Diversas são as questões que se colocam: deve o Estado limit...

Anuário do sector empresarial do estado 2010

Diariamente os meios de Comunicação Social questionam o papel do Sector Empresarial do Estado (SEE) na economia portuguesa e, em particular, o contributo deste sector para a dívida pública, a premência da sua existência e a eventual adopção de medidas políticas que visem a privatização de algumas Entidades que o integram. E, neste contexto, são frequentes as referências ao volume dos passivos, aos prejuízos ver...

New forms of local governance : a theoretical and empirical analysis of municip...

What factors influence local governments to rely on municipal corporations to provide public services? This article seeks to identify which factors lead local governments to use local corporate public sector organizations, particularly municipal corporations, for service delivery. Based on the ideas of the neo-institutionalism approach to public administration developed by Murray Horn (1995), we argue that loca...

The impact of fiscal decisions on local elections: an exploratory study of Port...

The analysis of fiscal performance is a hot topic either to policy makers or researchers and fiscal discipline is a key value in public finance management at the national and local levels. This growing attention to discipline may be explained with fiscal crisis and strict resource limitations, since in the three last decades a large part of those governments had high and persistent deficits and public debt. Fi...

Portuguese local government relative efficiency: a dea approach

It is widely accepted that performance measurement in the Public Sector is a difficult task, either in terms of efficiency or in terms of effectiveness. The most important reason for this relates to the lack of objective measures, given the market-aside operation of governmental activities. Therefore traditional methods of performance measurement, such as those based on the operating statement and the net incom...

Understanding intergovernmental cooperation in a context of devolution : an emp...

Why do local governments engage in formal cooperative agreements to deliver municipal services? What are the determinants of these collaborative efforts? We review the literature on horizontal collaboration and intergovernmental relations developed by the political economy, public choice, institutional collective action, and network literatures and present a theoretical model that intertwines several arguments ...

Análise da evolução finanças locais portuguesas

Corruption and political institutions in Portugal : an exploratory analysis

Corruption, political cover-ups, and fraud in a general form have become a matter of political debate in the last few years in Portugal. It is not that corrupt politicians and government officials were not around before the 21st century and are only now abusing their public authority, but is it only now coming out in public and in a big way. After thirty years of democracy, Portuguese public misuse of power is...

Exploring coalition behaviour in the allocation of Portuguese local government ...

The objective of this paper is to begin to explore coalition behaviour in Portuguese local government. Electoral rules exclude formal post-electoral coalition formation here. Given this, why study coalition behaviour in Portuguese local government? We argue that there is a coalition-like type of bargaining in the form of delegation, i.e., the distribution of portfolios to some but not all members of councils. T...

New forms of local governance : a theoretical and empirical analysis of the cas...

This paper is an attempt to identify which factors influence Portuguese local governments to rely on municipal corporations to provide public services. Based on the ideas of the new institutional economics applied to public administration developed by Milgrom and Roberts (1990) and Horn (1995), we argue that influence costs of in-house production and bargaining costs of external delegation to municipal enterpri...