Bulletin n. 1/2006 | ||
May 2006 | ||
Revelli Federico |
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Performance rating and yardstick competition in social service provision | ||
in Journal of Public Economics , Volume 90, Issues 3 , 2006 , 459-475 | ||
This paper investigates whether national evaluation of decentralised government performance tends, by lessening local information spill-overs, to reduce the scope for local performance comparisons and consequently to lower the extent of spatial auto-correlation among local government expenditures. It analyses local government expenditures on personal social services in the UK before and after the introduction of a national performance assessment system (SSPR, Social Services Performance Rating) that would attribute a rating to each local authority. The empirical evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that the SSPR has reduced local yardstick competition. | ||