| Title : | Evaluating Reforms of Local Public and Social Services in Europe : more evidence for better results | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Ivan Koprić, Editor ; Hellmut Wollmann, Editor ; Gérard Marcou, Editor | | Publisher: | Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan | | Publication Date: | [2018] | | Series: | Governance and public management series | | Pagination: | 345 p. | | Size: | 24 m | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-3-319-61090-0 | | General note: | Includes bibliographical references | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Municipal services
Social service - Europe
| | Class number: | 361.94 | | Abstract: | This book explains the increasing demand for evaluation as a result of the increasing frequency of reforms to local services, influenced by the New Public Management doctrine, the severe austerity policy in many European countries, and the wish to increase quality and reduce costs of public services, especially at the local (sub-national) level. Positioned at the interface of local services and evaluation research, it will enable the utilization of evaluation-generated knowledge in evidence-based policy making by focusing on the lessons learned from evaluation of local service delivery. It encompasses local public and social services (including waste, water, public transport, healthcare, education and eldercare) and examines the hypothesis that there is a North-West–South-East divide in Europe in terms of the evaluation of local service reforms. Particular attention is devoted to the explanatory function of evaluation. Providing fresh insight into the functioning of local government machinery in contemporary Europe, this book will appeal in particular to practitioners and students of local government, public economy, public administration and policy. | | Contents note: | Ivan Koprić, Hellmut Wollmann: Evaluating Reforms of Local Public and Social Services in Europe; Gerard Marcou, Anamarija Musa: Regulatory Impact Assessment and Sub-National Governments; Germà Bel: Less Plato and More Aristotle : Empirical Evaluation of Public Policies in Local Services; Martin Laffin: The Politics of Evaluation in Performance Management Regimes in English Local Government; Hellmut Wollmann, Frank Bönker: Evaluating Personal Social Services in Germany; José M. Alonso, Judith Clifton, Daniel Díaz-Fuentes: Healthcare Marketization in Spain : The Case of Madrid's Hospitals; Stig Montin, Vicki Johansson, Lena Lindgren: The Institutionalisation of Performance Scrutiny Regimes and Beyond: The Case of Education and Elderly Care in Sweden;Łukasz Mikuła, Marzena Walaszek: The Organization of Local Education in Poland : An Evaluative Approach to the Outsourcing Model; Kurt Houlberg, Ole Helby Petersen: Reforming Local Service Delivery by Contracting Out? Evaluating the Experience of Danish Road and Park Services; Jana Soukopová, Beata Mikušová Meričková, Juraj Nemec: The Efficiency of Local Service Delivery : The Czech Republic and Slovakia; Harald Torsteinsen, Marieke van Genugten, Łukasz Mikuła, Carla Puiggrós Mussons, Esther Pano Puey: Effects of External Agentification in Local Government : A European Comparison of Municipal Waste Management; Pierre Bauby, Mihaela Similie: The Emergence of Water Public Services Performance Evaluation in France; Primož Pevcin, Iztok Rakar: Evaluation of Delivery Mechanisms in Water Supply Industry - Evidence from Slovenia; Giulio Citroni, Marco Di Giulio, Maria Tullia Galanti, Andrea Lippi, Stefania Profeti: Apprentice Sorcerers. Evaluating the Program Theory of Regulatory Governance in Italian Public Utilities; Ivan Koprić, Vedran Đulabić: Evaluation of Decentralisation Programme in Croatia : Expectations, Problems, and Results; Jasmina Džinić, Romea Manojlović: Evaluating the Impact of Decentralization on Local Public Management Modernization in Croatia; Tamás M. Horváth: Evaluation of an Anti-Monopolist Program in Hungarian Public Utilities; Yeşeren Eliçin : Metropolitan Municipality Reform : Rescaling Of Municipal Service Delivery in Turkey; Theodore N. Tsekos, Athanasia: Policy Evaluation Capacity in the Greek Local Government : Formal Implementation and Substantial failures; Triantafyllopoulou; Ivan Koprić: Lessons Learned from Successful and Unsuccessful Local Public and Social Services Delivery Reforms; | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=18817 |
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