Effects of different modes of local public services delivery on quality of life in Spain

Cuadrado‐Ballesteros, Beatriz; García‐Sánchez, Isabel‐María; Prado‐Lorenzo, José‐Manuel

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.06.008

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“…The 2008 crisis in Spain, which had a direct impact on the management of infrastructure at the local level, provided a key setting in which the hypothesis could be studied. In Spain, local governments are in charge of public services, including street lighting, waste collection, water provision, road access, street and sewer cleaning, parks, libraries, markets, social services, sports facilities and slaughterhouses (Cuadrado-Ballesteros et al, 2012). 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 7 Our research strategy was to build two comparable case studies.…”

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Economic crisis and social learning for the provision of public services in two Spanish municipalities

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Dewberry

2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Economic crises pose challenges for the provision of public services but may also open up opportunities for social learning about how to achieve a sustainable society. The main research question addressed in this paper is: can economic crises catalyse social learning for a sustainable society? The hypothesis of the paper is that social learning emerges in association with the reduction of consumption levels that follows degrowth or with the reconfiguration of infrastructure management practices and sustainable innovation that could lead to a transition to sustainability. Following this, we empirically examine whether the crisis has led to social learning about the sustainable provision of public services in two similar municipalities in the north of Spain after the economic crisis of 2008. We develop an interpretative analysis of individual experiences of learning from the crisis using a set of qualitative interviews with individuals who were involved in key decisions about public service delivery during or immediately after the crisis. The analysis suggests that there has been a broader cultural change, which is challenging institutional models of regional development, that there has been a drive towards greater resource efficiency and that some opportunities have opened for entrepreneurs to develop sustainable innovations. The findings support the view that the crisis may have fostered learning responses that could lead to either degrowth or a sustainable transition.

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Economic crisis and social learning for the provision of public services in two Spanish municipalities

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Dewberry

2016

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“…Esto indicaría que existen procesos locales de menor escala que el comunal que explicarían la variación en los puntajes del simce de matemáticas. Al respecto, la metodología propuesta permite inferir que estos grupos requieren niveles de priorización diferenciados, de modo que podrían utilizarse para orientar las políticas públicas de educación (e. g., la Ley de Subvención Escolar Preferencial), planeamiento espacial, descentralización, y la gestión interna de las municipalidades y escuelas (Toledo, 2012;Cuadrado-Ballesteros et al, 2012).…”

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“…Aquí cabe notar que la descentralización puede tener en general un impacto positivo, puesto que se espera que provea importantes oportunidades e incentivos para que los padres y la comunidad se involucren con las escuelas (Marschall, 2006;Cuadrado-Ballesteros et al, 2012). Sin embargo, los municipios de comunas pequeñas en regiones a las cuales acceden justamente los estudiantes más pobres del país, presentan importantes problemas de gestión para la implementación de políticas y programas de mejoramiento educativo (Toledo, 2012).…”

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Priorización de territorios para la gestión educativa en la Araucanía (Chile)

Peña‒Cortés

Rozas-Vásquez

Ulbrich

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ResumenEn Chile, y en particular en la Araucanía, el aprendizaje de las matemáticas no ha logrado los niveles de desarrollo que se espera en las etapas iniciales de la educación formal si se compara esto con otras áreas como el lenguaje. Aquí se propone la priorización de territorios para la gestión educativa de las matemáticas mediante la evaluación espacial y temporal de los resultados de la prueba del Sistema Nacional de Calidad de la Educación (simce), la cual se aplicó a niños de cuarto grado básico durante el periodo 1999-2011. Esta investigación sugiere que hay más grupos de territorios que los que podría asociarse a los tres niveles de logros tradicionalmente utilizados en Chile y que la gestión educativa se debería efectuar a escala de distrito censal, considerando políticas diferenciadas para los distintos grupos priorizados. AbstractIn Chile, and particularly the Araucanía Region, mathematics learning has not reached the levels of development expected in the initial stages of formal education, as compared to other areas such as language. This study proposes to prioritize territories for educational management of mathematics through spatial and temporal assessment of results in the Sistema Nacional de Calidad de la Educación (simce) test applied to children in 4th grade primary education during the period 1999-2011. This research suggests that there are more groups of territories than can be associated with the three levels of achievement traditionally used in Chile and that educational management should be applied at census district scale, considering differentiated policies for the different groups prioritized.Palabras clave: aprendizaje, simce, nivel de logro, matemáticas, educación básica, geografía.

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“…In the search of efficiency and quality in the public services, the local governments have opted for the externalization and decentralization [4,21,22]. In externalization or out-sourcing the municipal service management is assigned to a private sector entity.…”

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“…However, the decentralization process of local governments has been developed faster than the incorporation of new management techniques such as performance measurement [4], fact that also occurs with the municipal sports services [19].…”

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Assessing Financial Condition of Municipal Sports Agencies: A Data Benchmarking Approach

García-Unanue¹,

Felipe²,

Corral³

et al. 2016

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This study analyzes the development of the financial condition of local decentralized public sports services over a period of 10 years, obtaining benchmarks to serve as a point of reference. In order to do this, the elements of flexibility, independence, and sustainability are analyzed through three indicators in 2,139 observations obtained from municipal sports service organi-zations in Spain from 2002 to 2011. The majority of the organizations show results that are theoretically adequate in terms of flexibility and sustainability, but not independence. For this reason, the statistics presented can be used as a point of reference in order to classify the organizations in the sector according to their financial performance.

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Effects of different modes of local public services delivery on quality of life in Spain

Cited by 34 publications

References 56 publications

Economic crisis and social learning for the provision of public services in two Spanish municipalities

Economic crisis and social learning for the provision of public services in two Spanish municipalities

Priorización de territorios para la gestión educativa en la Araucanía (Chile)

Assessing Financial Condition of Municipal Sports Agencies: A Data Benchmarking Approach

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