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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Tadeo, A.J.P., Gomez, F.G. and Varela, M.S. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Electoral opportunism and water pricing with incomplete transfer of control rights |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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Local Government Studies |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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46(6), Dec, 2020: p.1015-1038 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
One of the forms of intervention in public services that lie beyond market forces is price control. While such regulation is justified by the need to achieve social goals, empirical evidence has shown that it is often used by politicians for electoral gain. This paper looks for evidence of opportunistic political behaviour in urban water pricing. Using data for 119 large Spanish cities covering the period 1998–2015, we find strong empirical evidence of the influence of the electoral cycle on water pricing insofar as price increases are significantly lower in the years immediately preceding municipal elections than in non-pre-election years. Furthermore, outsourcing water service provision does not mitigate the relationship between the electoral cycle and water pricing. This result could be explained by incomplete transfer of control rights when the urban water service is outsourced, which allows politicians to use their right to supervise water tariffs to their advantage. – Reproduced |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Control rights, Electoral cycle, Privatisation, Political opportunism, Quantitative analysis, Spain, Urban water pricing |
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26911 |
| 773 ## - HOST ITEM ENTRY |
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Local Government Studies |
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POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM |
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Articles |
