Models and results of territorial public administrations against public corruption in Spain. What lessons can we learn?

Abstract

Over the last two decades in Spain, there has been a growing interest in Spain in preventing and combating corruption, motivated by the serious effects that certain behaviours of public managers and policy makers have had on public finances, particularly in local councils and, to a lesser extent, in Provincial councils, Autonomous Regions and the General State Administration. As a result of this change, various organisations have been created to combat corruption in the public sector. This evolution has given rise to a varied panorama of entities,
departments and institutions, whose analysis of results and proposals for improvement is essential to optimise their functioning in a decentralised administration such as the Spanish one.