LOCAL ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL POWER IN SPAIN: RECENT REFORMS AND DEBATES. LESSONS FOR AND FROM CHINA

Rubén C. Lois-González and Carlos Aymerich-Cano ()
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Rubén C. Lois-González: Faculty of Geography and History, University of Santiago de Compostela, Praza da Universidade 1, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Carlos Aymerich-Cano: Faculty of Law, University of Coruña, Campus de Elviña s/n, 15007-A Coruña, Spain

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2018, vol. 63, issue 04, 981-1001

Abstract: In Spain, as in China, local administration concentrates a number of problems. This is a level of financially weak government. In addition, this fragility is increased, because the municipalities manage numerous services to citizens. Since 2008, the outbreak of the economic crisis caused many difficulties to municipalities, which borrowed. The central government has responded in 2013 with a local reform, which seeks to control the spending of municipalities. Faced with this attempt, municipalities have responded by introducing more economic discipline. Undoubtedly, some of these Spanish lessons may be important for the experience of China, where economic problems of local power are similar.

Keywords: Local administration; centralization; municipality; financial sufficiency; governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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