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Echoing Foged's concerns about the lack of service-specific explanations in government contracting research, we investigated the moderating role of service type, finding that ideology has a significantly more pronounced impact on social service contracting decisions compared to technical services.
This study employs meta-analysis to consolidate existing empirical evidence concerning the influence of political ideology on government contracting. It addresses two primary questions: first, what is the overarching effect of political ideology on contracting out, and second, under what circumstances does this influence vary? Drawing upon
Apr 2, 2024 · The findings indicate that right-wing political ideology generally yields a significant, positive effect on driving contracting out. Moreover, meta-regression analysis suggests that this ideological effect is stronger in government contracting for social services and in non-Anglo-American administrative traditions.
Aug 17, 2020 · Political influence improves firms’ access to government investment through ex post renegotiations, thus increasing firm value and allowing firms to bid lower to win government contracts. The evidence also provides a novel explanation for prior findings that connected firms are more likely to win government contracts (e.g., Goldman, Rocholl ...
- Jonathan Brogaard, Matthew Denes, Ran Duchin
- 2021
Jan 6, 2021 · This paper studies the extent to which politicians’ preferences for price and non-price criteria in the contract awarding stage are associated with politicians’ ideological reasoning (the Citizen Candidate model), and strategic reasoning (the Downsian approach). Politicians’ preferences are analysed through a discrete choice experiment.
- Amandine Lerusse, Steven Van de Walle
- 2021
Mar 10, 2023 · To analyze the quandary of governance styles and how they shape government practice for steering public policy and services, here we examine governance theory and how it presupposes a pluralist political order’s process of institutionalization.
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Early studies in the 1980s and 1990s showed political factors, like public service constituency group and governance structure, as significant determinants of local government contracting (e.g., Ferris, 1986; Ferris & Graddy, 1986; Morgan, Hirlinger &. England, 1988).
