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Workplace partnership and public service provision
Work, Employment and Society, 2005This article considers the extent to which partnership espoused in Best Value is likely to be compatible with the model of social partnership espoused for employment relations. More specifically, the article seeks to cast light, empirically, on the degree to which Best Value can support the series of mutually supportive arrangements between these ...
Ian Roper, Philip James, Paul Higgins
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Arm’s Length Provision of Public Services [PDF]
, 2007 We analyze the economic consequences of strategic delegation of the right to decide between public or private provision of governmental service and/or the authority to negotiate and renegotiate with the chosen service provider. Our model encompass both bureaucratic delegation from a government to a privatization agency and electoral delegation from ...
Morten Bennedsen, Christian Schultz
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NGOs and public service provision
2020Since the 1980s, international and Kenyan-based NGOs have come to play a pivotal position in the governance of service provision in Kenya. Not only do they provide services directly to citizens, but they also engage in indirect provision, collaborative provision, and policy-making related to service provision locally or nationally.
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Regulation Strategies for Public Service Provision
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006Public service provision has undergone a significant process of reform through the reduction of vertical integration in its supply and the introduction of competition. The aim of these reforms is to increase eciency and ultimately to improve welfare, but these goals can be reached only if the appropriate regulation tool is chosen.
Laura Levaggi, Rosella Levaggi
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Adopting SOA in Public Service Provision
2017Ensuring accessibility of utility and social services is one of the public obligations of governments. Today, nations make use of the notion of e-government to expose such services to citizens. In line with this, many public organizations in Ethiopia are automating their workflows, and the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) is ...
Mesfin, G +3 more
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Service Provision through Public-Private Partnerships
Journal of Service Research, 2002This research examines a service delivery system for homeless youths that was created by a public-private partnership between the business community, nonprofit service providers, and governmental entities. The article opens with a brief introduction to homelessness, a review of the literature on the material lives of the poor, and a discussion of ...
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Private Provision of Public Services
2017The first public–private partnership (PPP) motorway in Australia was open to traffic more than two decades ago, and yet no comprehensive evaluation of PPPs in the road transport sector has been sighted. It is the intention of this chapter to fill this gap.
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Women’s representation and public service provision
2021This study will investigate the relationship between female representation in legislatures and levels of petty corruption in public service provision. We are primarily interested in whether assessing whether areas with higher female representation have lower rates of petty corruption experiences in public services, as well as whether increases in ...
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On public service provision informative phase
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, 2012Online provision of public services (such as passport issuance and establishing a new business) is a priority of eGovernment worldwide for over a decade. Public service provision consists of two phases: informative and performative. During the informative phase, citizens or businesses obtain information before actually invoking a public service.
Efthimios Tambouris +2 more
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Needs-based public health service provision ensures equity
International Journal of Drug Policy, 2016We welcome the contribution of Iversen, Hope, and McVeigh (2016) to the debate about the allocation of scarce HIV prevention resources. In our paper we raised the dilemma posed by competing demands for the Kirketon Road Centre’s needle syringe program (NSP) in Sydney’s Kings Cross. Iversen et al.
Ingrid, van Beek, Karen J, Chronister
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