Public Goods and the Public Sector

Most of the developed countries have implemented new principles of public sector reform – new approaches to the management of the public sector. A major feature of the new public management (NPM) is the introduction of market type mechanisms (MTM) to the running of public service organizations: the marketization of the public service. The marketization of public services aims at a continuous increase in public expenditure efficiency, continual improvements in public services quality, the implementation of the professional management tools in the public sector, and last but not least, charge for public services. Price of public services in mainstream economics theory is connected with preference revelation problem. Economic models explain the relationship between consumer behavior (revealed preferences) and the value of public goods, and thus determine the value of the goods themselves. The aim of the paper is to determine the success of the community model of public service delivery based on the demonstrated preferences of individuals in the consumption of public services / public goods. The direct way of determining the preferences of individuals was used in this paper (willigness to pay and willigness to accept). These preferences will be identified based on the crowdfunding campaign as an example of community model of public goods provision by using survey experiment method. The willingness of individuals to pay is dependent on the individual's relationship with the organisation, the organisation's employees, or sympathise with those for whom the collection is, for whom the project is designed.

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Public Goods and the Public Sector.

Economica ◽

10.2307/2552814 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 40 (159) ◽

pp. 337

Author(s):

Alan Marin ◽

Maurice Peston ◽

G. K. Shaw ◽

Frank J. B. Stilwell ◽

G. H. Peters

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Public Goods ◽

The Public

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Micro-Foundations of Religion and Public Goods Provision: Belief, Belonging, and Giving in Catholicism and Islam

Politics and Religion ◽

10.1017/s1755048315000747 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 718-744 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Ramazan Kılınç ◽

Carolyn M. Warner

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Social Welfare ◽

Public Goods ◽

Positive Affect ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Public Goods Provision ◽

The Public ◽

The Relationship ◽

Micro Foundations

AbstractWhile debates continue about the relationship between state-provided social welfare and religious charities, and whether organized religions are more capable of providing social welfare than is the public sector, less attention has focused on the question of what motivates religious adherents to contribute to the charitable work of their religions. In this article, we examine how adherents of Catholicism and Islam understand their generosity and its relationship to their faith. Through 218 semi-structured interviews with Catholics and Muslims in four cities in France, Ireland, Italy, and Turkey, we find systematic differences between the two religions. Catholics emphasize love of others and Muslims emphasize duty to God. We also find, contrary to expectations of the literature that emphasizes monitoring and sanctioning within groups to obtain cooperation, that Catholics and Muslims see their generosity as also motivated by the positive affect they feel towards their respective communities.

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Ramsey Taxation in the Solow-Uzawa Growth Model with Public Goods

Review of Politics and Public Policy in Emerging Economies ◽

10.26710/rope.v2i2.1358 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 25-38

Author(s):

Wei-Bin Zhang

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Public Goods ◽

Growth Model ◽

Consumer Goods ◽

Capital Accumulation ◽

Optimal Taxation ◽

Tax Rates ◽

Capital Goods ◽

The Public ◽

Neoclassical Growth

This paper examines issues related to optimal taxation similar to those addressed by Ramsey in his celebrated 1927 paper. Rather than determining taxes on commodities with given revenue to minimize the decrement of utility may be minimum in the Ramsey approach, this model determines optimal taxation to maximize utility with revenue as endogenous variable. We analyze optimal taxation in neoclassical growth theory. We introduce a public sector to the Solow-Uzawa neoclassical growth model. The economy is composed of the public, capital goods and consumer goods sectors. Public goods enter into the utility function. The public sector is financially supported by the government’s revenue from taxing consumption of capital goods and consumer goods. We derive the optimal taxation rule and construct the dynamics of the national economy. The model describes nonlinear dynamic interactions among national and sectoral growth, economic structural change, wealth/capital accumulation, and optimal tax rates in perfect competitive markets with the government intervention. We carry out comparative analysis to analyze effects of changes in some parameters on the tax rates and other economic variables.

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E-procurement in Contracting-out of Public Goods and Services: Evidence from Slovakia

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy ◽

10.1515/nispa-2016-0003 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 57-71

Author(s):

Mária Murray Svidroňová ◽

Beáta Mikušová Meričková ◽

Lýdia Gondášová

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Public Goods ◽

Public Administration ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Field Of Study ◽

Contracting Out ◽

The Public ◽

Goods And Services ◽

Information And Communication

AbstractRecently growing attention has been paid to the issue of public-sector innovation: scholars have progressively developed a fully-fledged field of study in this direction, since remarkable differences exist between public and private organizations. Perhaps paradoxically, the decline of NPM itself from the 1990s onwards has paved the way to further developments of this field of study, surpassing the existent model through the exploration of innovative tools for stakeholders’ involvement in public decision-making. New Public Management reforms of public administration combined with the use of information and communication technologies have brought many innovations to the public sector, among others also public e-procurement. Our objective is to identify the driver and barriers of e-procurement use in contracting-out of public goods and services based on analysis in one selected region and its four municipalities in Slovakia. This study uses a qualitative and quantitative approach and is based on original data from our own research, including data collected within the LIPSE (Learning from Innovation in Public Sector Environments) research project. The main findings of our analysis are that the use of public e-procurement is an innovative tool for contracting out the public services and as such facilitates modern public-administration reforms based on information and communication technologies.

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Public Interests and the Theory of Public Goods

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2007-10-90-113 ◽

2007 ◽

pp. 90-113 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

A. Rubinstein

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Public Goods ◽

Public Economics ◽

Free Rider ◽

Methodological Individualism ◽

Public Interests ◽

New Approach ◽

The Public ◽

Free Rider Problem ◽

Economic Concept

The article is devoted to the modern public economics. The author analyzes the German "Finanzwissenschaft" tradition. Major issues connected to the problem of interests of the society as a whole were raised within this tradition: the problem of public goods pricing and the free-rider problem. The author considers this tradition taking into account the neoclassical economic concept of public sector. The article introduces the "public goods paradox" - incompatibility of methodological individualism and the positive demand for public goods. The author criticizes neoclassical theories (P. Samuelson, R. Musgrave, H. Margolis) and proposes a new approach. He develops the complementarity principle alternative to methodological individualism. According to this idea interests of the society as a whole are irreducible to interests of individuals.

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