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The Provision of Public Services in Europe: Between State, Local Government and Market
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This article is published in Public Management Review.The article was published on 2011-06-13. It has received 39 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public finance & Public sector.read more
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'Don’t call me resilient again!' The New Urban Agenda as immunology … or ... what happens when communities refuse to be vaccinated with ‘smart cities’ and indicators
TL;DR: The Habitat III Conference's New Urban Agenda hails a "paradigm shift" for pursuing the sustainable development goals (SDGs), however, the new call for safe, resilient, sustainable and inclusive c...
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Re-municipalisation in the early twenty-first century: water in France and energy in Germany
TL;DR: The public sector paradigm has shown a remarkable resilience, underpinning the development of European public services for almost a century, compared with the three decades of domination by the private sector as discussed by the authors.
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The efficiency and effectiveness of municipally owned corporations: a systematic review
TL;DR: A systematic review of public administration articles published between 2001 and 2015 on the efficiency and effectiveness of municipal owned corporations (MOCs) is presented in this paper. But little remains known about the effectiveness of MOCs.
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Local Government Reforms in (Seven) European Countries: Between Convergent and Divergent, Conflicting and Complementary Developments
TL;DR: In this paper, the United Kingdom/England, Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, Spain and Hungary are compared in terms of the role of local government in the expansion of local governance networks.
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The Evaluation of Institutional Reforms at Sub-national Government Levels: A Still Neglected Research Agenda
Sabine Kuhlmann,Hellmut Wollmann +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conceptualize institutional policies (territorial and functional reforms) as a particular type of public policy and contrast them analytically, conceptually and methodologically with "normal" substantial policies.
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A shallow rationalisation? ‘Merger mania‘ and side-effects in the reorganisation of public-service delivery
TL;DR: In this paper, the mix of reorganization measures recently adopted by Italian governments in the delivery of public services in four policy sectors that are (co)managed at different levels is discussed.
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Demystifying Decentralization and Its Setback: Evidence From Thailand’s Decentralization Reform
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the options for a conceptual framework to explicate the dynamics of decentralization reform in Thailand and suggest historical institutionalism, along with the concepts of path dependence and critical junctures, as theoretical approaches to understand decentralization problems with an eye to political actors' strategic interests, as well as political and institutional contexts that restrain their choices.
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Public Services Reforms in Neo-Patrimonial Systems: The Commercialization of Healthcare and Education in Saudi Arabia
TL;DR: In this article, the commercialization of healthcare and education services that took place in Saudi Arabia since the 2000s has been investigated, and the analysis provides some ways to refine and expand existing theoretical accounts of public services reforms in regimes that differ from representative democracies.
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Pay-Performance Relationship in German State-Owned Enterprises: Evidence and Reflection for Organizational Success Research with Undistorted and 'Right' Data
Ulf Papenfuss,Christian Schmidt +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the pay-performance relationship of executive directors from 176 state-owned enterprises in eleven sectors by assessing 498 annual statements and found no significant link between financial performance ratios and the executive director compensation.
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Unity and Diversity of SSGIs in the European Union
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss SSGI in the EU by considering the relationship between diversity and unity, in the context of the available empirical data, through four distinct ‘approaches.