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Title: Constraints on political autonomy in decentralized Spain? Analysing the impact of territorial financing and governments’ ideology on regional policy-making
Other Titles: ¿Condicionantes de la autonomía política en la España descentralizada? Análisis del impacto de la financiación territorial y de la ideología en el policy-making regional
Author: Gallego, Raquel  
Barbieri, Nicolás  
de Gispert, Cristina  
González Motos, Sheila  
Vilalta, Maite  
Citation: Calderón, R. G., Barbieri, N., de Gispert Brosa, C., González, S., & Vilalta, M. (2018). Constraints on political autonomy in decentralized Spain?: Analysing the impact of territorial financing and governments’ ideology on regional policy-making. Revista de estudios políticos, (180), 131-162. doi: 10.18042/cepc/rep.180.05
Abstract: This article analyses the impact of state decentralization on one aspect of territorial diversity, specifically on the policy discretion of regions, as an expression of their political autonomy for self-government. Our interest focuses on the factors that determine the decisions and actions of regional governments in developing their policies. We ask: why do regional governments take different public policy options? Conceding that several factors help explain policy decisions (such as productive structure, government ideology, social capital, political context, budgetary resources), we choose to explore the impact of two of them, by asking: in what way, and to what extent, are policy decisions and actions conditioned by the financing model and by their different ideologies? We present quantitative and qualitative comparative evidence from two contrasting case studies: two regions in decentralized Spain that have developed their own policies of income and spending, and have translated them into differing public management policies and regulatory models for providing health services. These governments are ideologically different and have undergone different degrees of recent ideological changes, but the resources provided to them by the financing model have also been different. We show how resources determine the scope of governments’ actions, while ideology determines their direction.
Keywords: decentralization
public policy
ideology
territorial financing system
spain
health system
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/rep.180.05
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Issue Date: Apr-2018
Publication license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/  
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