英格兰和西班牙地方政府的财政可持续性:一项比较实证研究

The financial sustainability of local authorities in England and Spain:a comparative empirical study

近年来,地方政府财政可持续性被看作是确保向未来数代持续提供公共服务的一个关键概念。虽然许多欧洲国家实施了种种计划来提升财政可持续性,但是各个地方政府各具不同行政管理传统,实施的改革产生了不同结果。本研究采用比较法,识别在英格兰和西班牙可能会影响地方政府财政可持续性的机制、宏观和微观因素,以便确定并解释地方政府提供公共服务的财政可持续性的推动以及风险因素的异同。

In recent years,the financial sustainability of local authorities has been recognised as a concept of crucial importance in ensuring that public services may continue to be delivered to future generations.Although many European countries have implemented programmes to enhance their financial sustainability,local authorities are characterised by differing administrative traditions and achieve diverse outcomes in response to the reforms made.Taking a comparative approach,the present study identifies institutional,macroeconomic and microeconomic factors that might influence local authorities’financial sustainability in England and Spain in order to determine and explain similarities and differences in the drivers and risk factors for financial sustainability in local authorities’provision of public services.