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Author : Institute of Public Administration of Canada. National Seminar,David M. Cameron
Publisher : Institute of Public Administration of Canada
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0920715346
Author : Peter C. Humphreys,Orla O'Donnell
Publisher : Institute of Public Administration
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Civil service
ISBN : 9781904541400
This title includes chapters on decentralisation and reform, an international perspective on decentralisation, opportunities and challenges for leadership and collegiality and moving forward, amongst others, in a geographically decentralised Irish public service.
Author : Christopher J. Rees,Farhad Hossain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135740795
Over recent decades, decentralization has emerged as a key Public Sector Reform strategy in a wide variety of international contexts. Yet, despite its emergence as a ubiquitous activity that cuts across disciplinary lines in international development, decentralization is understood and applied in many different ways by parties acting from contrary perspectives. This book offers a fascinating insight into theory and practice surrounding decentralization activities in the Public Sectors of developing and transitional countries. In drawing on the expertise of established scholars, the book explores the contexts, achievements, progress and challenges of decentralization and local governance. Notably, the contributions contained in this book are genuinely international in nature; the chapters explore aspects of decentralization and local governance in contexts as diverse as Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Tanzania, Uganda, and Viet Nam. In summary, by examining the subject of decentralization with reference to specific developing and transitional Public Sector contexts in which it has been practiced, this book offers an excellent contribution towards a better understanding of the theory and practice of decentralization and local governance in international settings. This book was published as a special double issue of the International Journal of Public Administration.
Author : Jacques Crémer,Antonio Estache,Paul Seabright
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Decentralization in management
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Johnston Birchall,Keith Putman,Christopher Pollitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349270101
Decentralise authority and let managers manage' has been an almost universal message in UK public services over the last 15 years. But does it really work? Drawing on their own - and a wide range of other research - the authors show that behind the ministerial rhetoric the experiences of NHS trusts, grant maintained schools and housing associations were in practice distinctly mixed. The book offers a sophisticated theoretical analysis of the origins and results of decentralised public management in the UK.
Author : Aehyung Kim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Banks and Banking Reform
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Abstract: This paper discusses decentralization (administrative, fiscal and political) of government in public service provision. It aims to facilitate understanding among practitioners, policy makers, and scholars about what decentralization entails in practice compared to theory. A review of the empirical literature and experience of decentralization is presented. The paper highlights issues that policy makers in developing and transitional countries should be aware of when reforming government, considering their unique political and economic environment. The author argues that decentralization produces efficiency gains stemming from inter-jurisdictional competition, enhanced checks and balances over the government through voting at the subnational level, and informational advantages due to proximity to citizens. By contrast, arguments against decentralization include the risk of an increased level of corruption, coordination problems stemming from multiple layers of government, low capacity of subnational government, and unproductive inter-jurisdictional competition. Decentralization itself does not render increased government effectiveness in public service provision. Instead, the effectiveness of government largely depends on the quality of human capital and institutions.
Author : R.A. W. Rhodes,P. Carmichael,J McMillan,A Massey
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335227563
This book is concerned with the civil services of the United Kingdom, examining their characteristics and trends since 1970. It provides a map of the British civil service beyond Whitehall, giving an individual country-by-country analysis of the civil services of the UK. It considers the implications of the changing nature of the civil services for our understanding of British governance, especially in the context of the public sector management reforms of the 1980s and 1990s and the impact of constitutional change (chiefly devolution) since 1998. Given that devolution has been characterized as a process rather than an event, the book brings to bear evidence of how existing longstanding differences within some parts of British public administration may come to be replicated elsewhere in the UK. The authors also explore two controversial propositions. First they ask whether Britain is moving from the unitory, strong executive of the 'Westminster model' to a 'differentiated polity' characterized by institutional fragmentation. Second, they consider whether an unintended consequence of recent changes is a 'hollowing out of the state'. Is the British executive losing functions downwards to devolved governments and special-purpose bodies and outwards to regional offices and agencies with a resulting loss of central capacity? Substantial empirical data (both quantitative and qualitative) has been amassed here in order to give answers to these questions. Decentralizing the Civil Service assesses the UK's changing civil services in the wake of two decades of public sector management reforms and New Labour's constitutional reform programme, most notably devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This assessment has significant implications for how we view governance in the UK.
Author : Peter Aucoin,Herman Bakvis
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Institute for Research on Public Policy = Institut de recherches politiques
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015047774230
The Government of Canada has made efforts in recent years to achieve a greater degree of managerial deregulation and administrative decentralization. This study examines these efforts in light of the evolution of the executive-bureaucratic arena over the three decades since 1960, the theoretical issues involved in organization design and behaviour, and the practical context of administrative reform.
Author : B. Etien
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9051993501
This work contains reports of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences. The scientific programme emphasizes a comparative approach and incorporates significant theoretical and conceptual developments. Six workshops are reported upon including the reconstruction of government functions, decentralization, redesigning for responsiveness, accountability and risk-taking, special interests and client relationships, reaffirmation of values, and mobilizing learning. A panel on administrative reform in China forms a unique contribution. Readers include professionals, scholars and students of public administration.
Author : Michael M. Atkinson,Gregory P. Marchildon,Peter W. B. Phillips,Kenneth A. Rasmussen,Daniel Béland,Kathleen McNutt
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442604933
Governance and Public Policy in Canada lays the foundation for a systematic analysis of policy developments, shaped as they are by multiple players, institutional tensions, and governance legacies. Arguing that provinces are now the most central site of governance and policy innovation, the book assesses the role of the provinces and places the provincial state in its broader economic, institutional, social, and territorial context. The aim throughout is to highlight the crucial role of provinces in policy changes that directly affect the lives of citizens. Three key themes unify this book. First, it addresses the role of policy convergence and divergence among provinces. Although the analysis acknowledges enduring differences in political culture and institutions, it also points to patterns of policy diffusion and convergence in specific areas in a number of provinces. Second, the book explores the push and pull between centralization and decentralization in Canada as it affects intergovernmental relations. Third, it underscores that although the provinces play a greater role in policy development than ever before, they now face a growing tension between their expanding policy ambitions and their capacity to develop, fund, implement, manage, and evaluate policy programs. Governance and Public Policy in Canada describes how the provincial state has adapted in the context of these changing circumstances to transcend its limited capacity while engaging with a growing number of civil society actors, policy networks, and intergovernmental bodies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Decentralization in government
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Dissatisfied with centralized approaches to delivering local public services, a large number of countries are decentralizing responsibility for these services to lower-level, locally elected governments. The results have been mixed. The paper provides a framework for evaluating the benefits and costs, in terms of service delivery, of different approaches to decentralization, based on relationships of accountability between different actors in the delivery chain. Moving from a model of central provision to that of decentralization to local governments introduces a new relationship of accountability-between national and local policymakers-while altering existing relationships, such as that between citizens and elected politicians. Only by examining how these relationships change can we understand why decentralization can, and sometimes cannot, lead to better service delivery. In particular, the various instruments of decentralization-fiscal, administrative, regulatory, market, and financial-can affect the incentives facing service providers, even though they relate only to local policymakers. Likewise, and perhaps more significantly, the incentives facing local and national politicians can have a profound effect on the provision of local services. Finally, the process of implementing decentralization can be as important as the design of the system in influencing service delivery outcomes.
Author : José Manuel Ruano,Marius Profiroiu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319324371
This handbook provides an authoritative study of European decentralisation, taking into account, from a territorial perspective, the different political and administrative traditions in Europe (Continental, Anglo-Saxon and Ex-communist States) and the cleavages North-South and East-West. While in recent decades most European countries have implemented devolution policies trying to tackle different political, social or bureaucratic problems, some others have instead regionalised their territory, applied federal or pseudo-federal reforms and strengthened the role of subnational governments. This volume analyses decentralisation in these countries using different variables including history, territorial organisation, civil service and financing, and reveals how this phenomenon leads to complex intergovernmental linkages. The evolution of territorial decentralisation, the political tensions between centre and periphery, the autonomy of the subnational governments and their functions and competences, the tools of co-ordination and co-operation, and the features and role of civil service are the main issues studied here with an interdisciplinary approach.
Author : Richard Common,Norman Flynn,Elizabeth Mellon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:154128608
Author : Christopher Pollitt,Johnston Birchall,Keith Putman
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780333694022
Drawing on their own and a wide range of other research, the authors offer a sophisticated theoretical analysis of the origins and results of decentralised public management in the UK.
Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,Local Economic and Employment Development (Program)
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111352915
Decentralising labour market policy is a delicate and challenging subject of political debate. Does decentralisation really enable co-ordination of policies? At the local level, how do we make the best use of decentralised powers? How can greater flexibility be provided in managing policies while still guaranteeing efficiency and accountability? To enhance responsiveness to citizens needs, governments increasingly decentralise the way policies are designed and implemented. In the labour market policy area, many stakeholders, from business and local government to community groups and NGOs have been receptive. The OECD invited leading experts and experienced policy makers and practitioners to address these questions and share their experiences in dealing with such issues. This report, supported by statistical data, summarises the lessons learnt from their experiences. It is for researchers, leading experts, business communities, economists in government circles and NGOs.