El futuro del sector público institucional local
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The phenomenon of functional decentralization through the creation of semi-autonomous government bodies has its own singularities at the local level. The creation of these bodies has been regulated hand in hand with the forms of management of public services and public initiative in the economy. Its analysis has been linked to a series of commonplaces anchored in traditional dogmatics, such as the running away from public law –which has hardly any place in an intensely Europeanized context–; the excessive expansion of the public sector –which contrasts with the progressive reduction in the number of instrumental entities in the last decade–; as well as the organizational freedom to choose between different legal forms –which is directly conditioned by the limits of domestic and European law–. Forty years after the approval of the Ley de Bases de Régimen Local (Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril), this paper reflects on these topics in order to identify axes that will contribute to the future design of a strategic local institutional public sector.