Constraints on political autonomy in decentralized Spain?: Analysing the impact of territorial financing and governments’ ideology on regional policy-making
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 regio...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | , , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
2018
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6506799 |
| Source: | Revista de estudios políticos, ISSN 0048-7694, Nº 180, 2018, pags. 131-162 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags: Be the first to tag this record
|
| id |
dialnet-ar-18-ART0001326741
|
|---|---|
| record_format |
dialnet
|
| institution |
Dialnet
|
| collection |
Dialnet AR
|
| source |
Revista de estudios políticos, ISSN 0048-7694, Nº 180, 2018, pags. 131-162
|
| language |
English
|
| topic |
Decentralization
public policy ideology territorial financing system Spain health system Descentralización políticas públicas ideología financiación territorial España sistema sanitario |
| spellingShingle |
Decentralization
public policy ideology territorial financing system Spain health system Descentralización políticas públicas ideología financiación territorial España sistema sanitario Gallego Calderón, Raquel Barbieri, Nicolás Gispert Brosa, Cristina de González, Sheila Vilalta, Maite Constraints on political autonomy in decentralized Spain?: Analysing the impact of territorial financing and governments’ ideology on regional policy-making |
| description |
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.
|
| format |
Article
|
| author |
Gallego Calderón, Raquel
Barbieri, Nicolás Gispert Brosa, Cristina de González, Sheila Vilalta, Maite |
| author_facet |
Gallego Calderón, Raquel
Barbieri, Nicolás Gispert Brosa, Cristina de González, Sheila Vilalta, Maite |
| author_sort |
Gallego Calderón, Raquel
|
| title |
Constraints on political autonomy in decentralized Spain?: Analysing the impact of territorial financing and governments’ ideology on regional policy-making
|
| title_short |
Constraints on political autonomy in decentralized Spain?: Analysing the impact of territorial financing and governments’ ideology on regional policy-making
|
| title_full |
Constraints on political autonomy in decentralized Spain?: Analysing the impact of territorial financing and governments’ ideology on regional policy-making
|
| title_fullStr |
Constraints on political autonomy in decentralized Spain?: Analysing the impact of territorial financing and governments’ ideology on regional policy-making
|
| title_full_unstemmed |
Constraints on political autonomy in decentralized Spain?: Analysing the impact of territorial financing and governments’ ideology on regional policy-making
|
| title_sort |
constraints on political autonomy in decentralized spain?: analysing the impact of territorial financing and governments’ ideology on regional policy-making
|
| publishDate |
2018
|
| url |
https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6506799
|
| _version_ |
1767735766746660864
|
| spelling |
dialnet-ar-18-ART00013267412023-06-02Constraints on political autonomy in decentralized Spain?: Analysing the impact of territorial financing and governments’ ideology on regional policy-makingGallego Calderón, RaquelBarbieri, NicolásGispert Brosa, Cristina deGonzález, SheilaVilalta, MaiteDecentralizationpublic policyideologyterritorial financing systemSpainhealth systemDescentralizaciónpolíticas públicasideologíafinanciación territorialEspañasistema sanitarioThis 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.Este artículo analiza el impacto de la descentralización del Estado en un aspecto de la diversidad territorial, concretamente en la discrecionalidad de las políticas públicas regionales, como una expresión de su autonomía política para el autogobierno. Nuestro interés se centra en los factores que determinan las decisiones y acciones de los Gobiernos subcentrales en el desarrollo de sus políticas públicas. Nos preguntamos: ¿por qué los Gobiernos regionales toman diferentes opciones de políticas públicas? Asumiendo que son diversos factores los que ayudan a explicar las decisiones de políticas públicas (tales como la estructura productiva, la ideología del Gobierno, el capital social, el contexto político, los recursos presupuestarios…), escogemos explorar el impacto de dos de ellos, preguntándonos: ¿de qué forma, y en qué medida, sus decisiones de políticas y acciones de políticas públicas han sido condicionadas por el modelo de financiación y por sus diferentes ideologías? Presentamos evidencia comparativa, cualitativa y cuantitativa de dos estudios de caso: dos comunidades autónomas en España que han desarrollado sus propias políticas de ingresos y de gasto, y las han traducido en políticas de gestión pública y modelos regulativos de los servicios de salud distintos. No solo sus Gobiernos han sido ideológicamente distintos y han pasado por diferentes grados de cambios ideológicos, sino que también los recursos que se les han asignado a través del modelo de financiación han sido distintos. Mostramos cómo los recursos determinan el alcance de las acciones de los Gobiernos, mientras que su ideología determina su dirección.2018text (article)application/pdfhttps://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6506799(Revista) ISSN 0048-7694Revista de estudios políticos, ISSN 0048-7694, Nº 180, 2018, pags. 131-162engLICENCIA DE USO: Los documentos a texto completo incluidos en Dialnet son de acceso libre y propiedad de sus autores y/o editores. Por tanto, cualquier acto de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública y/o transformación total o parcial requiere el consentimiento expreso y escrito de aquéllos. Cualquier enlace al texto completo de estos documentos deberá hacerse a través de la URL oficial de éstos en Dialnet. Más información: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/info/derechosOAI | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS STATEMENT: Full text documents hosted by Dialnet are protected by copyright and/or related rights. This digital object is accessible without charge, but its use is subject to the licensing conditions set by its authors or editors. Unless expressly stated otherwise in the licensing conditions, you are free to linking, browsing, printing and making a copy for your own personal purposes. All other acts of reproduction and communication to the public are subject to the licensing conditions expressed by editors and authors and require consent from them. Any link to this document should be made using its official URL in Dialnet. More info: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/info/derechosOAI
|