Results 111 to 120 of about 205,921 (166)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
The Biological Station at Fairport, Iowa, as an Agency for Public Service
Science, 1921R E Coker
exaly +3 more sources
Agency in and for mediating in public service interpreting
2023The notion of agency is a very complex one and has been used in the literature with a number of different meanings. In particular, starting from Giddens (1984), it has increasingly been adopted to qualify any action performed by participants in communication. In this chapter, I will propose a specific interpretation of the concept of agency.
openaire +1 more source
Preparing public service agencies for strategic planning
International Journal of Public Administration, 1987This paper examines the reasons why public sector organizations may not be ready for traditional private sector strategic planning techniques and suggests a typology for diagnosing the CBO's position in relation to planning efforts. It identifies the need for interventions appropriate to the organization climate and begins to explore mechanisms which ...
Pamela A. Posey +2 more
openaire +1 more source
2003
AbstractDiscusses the fundamental agency question as to the relative balance of power between individual users and professionals with respect to public services such as health care and education. It examines arguments concerning market and individual ‘failure’, and concludes that the best service is one that treats the users of the service as queens ...
openaire +1 more source
AbstractDiscusses the fundamental agency question as to the relative balance of power between individual users and professionals with respect to public services such as health care and education. It examines arguments concerning market and individual ‘failure’, and concludes that the best service is one that treats the users of the service as queens ...
openaire +1 more source
Subversive citizensPower, agency and resistance in public services
2009Many of the recent reforms in public serviced in the UK have been driven by the image of the ‘responsible citizen’ – the service user who does not only have rights to receive services but also has responsibilities for the delivery of policy outcomes. In this way, citizens’ everyday conduct is shaped by governmental action, yet there is much evidence ...
Marian Barnes, David Prior
openaire +1 more source
Corruption in the public service: The case of the property services agency
Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. Public Money, 1985In the face of intensive Parliamentary criticism, PSA is beginning to put its house in order. But what are the lessons for the rest of the public sector from this inglorious saga?
openaire +1 more source
3 Agency‐Type Public Service Bargains
2006AbstractThis chapter discusses the way in which ‘agency’ bargains need to be understood in their rather specific meaning under the law of agency. It then discusses under what circumstances democratic political systems favour agency-type bargains. Agency bargains vary on two key dimensions: on the extent of specific direction under which public servants
Christopher Hood, Martin Lodge
openaire +1 more source
Non-Elite Personnel Practices: a Survey of a Public Service Agency
Western Political Quarterly, 1969S PUBLIC responsibilities expand in modern society (with the consequent growth of governmental discharge of social functions) we find a geometrically ascending curve of congestive, bureaucratic complexities for which seekers of administrative efficiency must find relief.
Alan Evan Schenker, Dale E. Carter
openaire +1 more source
The Provision of Public-Sector Services by Family Planning Agencies in 1995
Family Planning Perspectives, 1997Results from a 1995 survey of a nationally representative sample of 603 publicly funded family planning agencies reveal that 96% rely on federal funding, 60% on state funding and 40% on local funding to provide family planning and other services. Although only 25% of the contraceptive clients served by these publicly funded agencies--including health ...
J J, Frost, M, Bolzan
openaire +2 more sources
Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2008
AbstractThis paper addresses the need for culturally appropriate and culturally effective public programs and public services.
openaire +1 more source
AbstractThis paper addresses the need for culturally appropriate and culturally effective public programs and public services.
openaire +1 more source