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2021
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[Journal:] Public Management Review [ISSN:] 1471-9045 [Issue:] (Latest articles) [Publisher:] Taylor & Francis [Place:] London [Year:] 2021
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Taylor & Francis, London
Zusammenfassung: 
Analysis of 60,000 contracts awarded by English councils between 2015–19 reveals that austerity constraints are a key predictor of councils outsourcing services to for-profit suppliers, regardless of their political control. Conservative Party-controlled councils are also more likely to contract with for-profit suppliers, although we found no link between Labour-controlled councils and not-for-profit suppliers, nor evidence that political or budgetary factors influence whether councils contract with providers based in their own region. We argue that centrally imposed funding cuts, and a belief that for-profit suppliers represent a cheaper option, could be overriding Labour Party councils' ideological preference for not-for-profit providers.
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Public contracting
political control
austerity
local government
procurement
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