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Private and civic organisations as providers of public services in municipalities
Studia Regionalne i Lokalne, 2018 The following article presents the results of a study investigating employment of private and non-governmental organisations in Polish municipalities as providers of versatile public services and the resulting nature of the relationship among the latter.
Eugeniusz Wojciechowski +2 more
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The depths of the cuts: the uneven geography of local government austerity
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2018 Austerity, the sustained and widespread cuts to government budgets, has characterised Britain’s public policy since 2010. The local state has undergone substantial restructuring, driven by major budget reductions from central government.
Mia Gray, A. Barford
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The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2012 The South African local government sector has undergone changes in the post-apartheid era as policy makers have sought to improve basic services provided to disadvantaged local communities.
Gert van der Westhuizen +2 more
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Corporatization in the Public Sector: Explaining the Growth of Local Government Companies
PAR. Public Administration Review, 2019 The creation of companies by local governments to provide public services—referred to as “corporatization”—is an example of systemic public entrepreneurship that is popular across the world.
R. Andrews +3 more
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Assessing the Energy Crisis in South Africa: The Socio-Economic Implication and Challenges Ahead [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesThis paper examined the socio-economic implications caused by the current energy crisis South Africa is facing. Although the crisis is not at its worst stage when compared to other countries in Africa, there are still challenges ahead if the crisis at ...
Kazeem Oyedele Lamidi +1 more
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019 The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of local government competition and environmental regulation intensity on regional innovation performance and its regional heterogeneity.
Jinqian Deng +3 more
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The Municipalities and INSPIRE – Any Connection?
Geoforum Perspektiv, 2014 On the surface, the municipalities are neither data owners nor data systems managers in connection with Denmark's reporting of data to INSPIRE. However, if you dig a little deeper in the actual data reports, you will see that the municipalities are ...
Inge Flensted
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Local self-government or local co-governance?
Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government, 2010 The article discusses “local self-government”, a core concept in a charter of the Council of Europe, and departs from a debate in the Norwegian Parliament about constitutional protection of local self-government. Newly, such a change was voted down, and this serves as an opportunity to question the idea about local self-government in a time when there ...
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Success, challenges and prospects of decentralization in Africa: a systematic review
Cogent Social SciencesDecentralization remains a global development approach. African countries have been using decentralization by devolution to realize their development vision. This study assesses the success, challenges, and prospects of decentralization in Africa.
Rogers Rugeiyamu, Adam Msendo
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