scholarly journals Unequal and Gendered: Assessing the Impacts of Austerity Cuts on Public Service Users

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Annette Hastings ◽  
Peter Matthews ◽  
Yang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Administrative Data ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Service Needs ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Service Provision ◽  
The Impact

A decade of austerity has amplified concern about who gets what from public services. The article considers the socio-economic and gendered impacts of cuts to local environmental services which have increased the need for citizens to report service needs and effectively ‘co-produce’ services. Via a case study of a UK council’s decade of administrative data on citizen requests and service responses, the article provides one of the first detailed analyses of the unfolding impact of austerity cuts over time on public service provision. It demonstrates the impact of austerity across the social gradient, but disproportionately on the least affluent, especially women. The article argues for the importance of detailed empirical examination of administrative data for making visible, and potentially tackling, long standing inequalities in public service provision.

scholarly journals The First City Organizational LCA Case Study: Feasibility and Lessons Learned from Vienna

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5062
Author(s):  
Alexander Cremer ◽  
Markus Berger ◽  
Katrin Müller ◽  
Matthias Finkbeiner
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
City Managers ◽  
First Case ◽  
Public Service Provision ◽  
Organizational Lca

Cities are recognized as a major contributor to environmental pressures. Recently, organizational LCA (OLCA) has been found to align well with requirements for city-scale environmental decision support and a novel city-OLCA framework was introduced. City-OLCA combines two relevant aspects: It covers activities beyond public service provision (multi-stakeholder) and emissions beyond greenhouse gases (multi-impact). Its unique approach of acknowledging responsibility levels should help both city-managers and academia in performance tracking and to prioritize mitigation measures. The goal of this work is to test city-OLCA’s feasibility in a first case study with real city data from Vienna. The feasibility was confirmed, and results for 12 impact categories were obtained. As an example, Vienna’s global warming potential, ozone depletion potential, and marine eutrophication potential for 2016 were 14,686 kt CO­2 eq., 6796 kg CFC-11 eq., and 310 t N eq., respectively. Our results indicate that current accounting practices may underestimate greenhouse gas emissions of the entire city by up to a factor of 3. This is mainly due to additional activities not covered by conventional standards (food and goods consumption). While the city itself only accounts for 25% of greenhouse gases, 75% are caused by activities beyond public service provision or beyond governmental responsibilities. Based on our results, we encourage city managers to include an organizational based LCA approach in defining reduction strategies. This will reveal environmental blind spots and avoids underestimating environmental burdens, which might lead to setting the wrong focus for mitigation.

scholarly journals Sustaining Public–Private Partnerships for Public Service Provision Through Democratically Accountable Practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 009539972110305
Author(s):  
Moses Onyoin ◽  
Christopher H. Bovis
Keyword(s):  
Information Asymmetry ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Democratic Accountability ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Public ◽  
Multiple Stakeholder ◽  
Public Service Provision ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

Despite the multiple stakeholder-centered complexities involved, the public–private partnership (PPP) modality is increasingly the vehicle of choice for the provision of public services in the developing world. This article asks how PPPs might overcome sustainability challenges in a meaningful way while examining which stakeholder-centered interventions are effective in facilitating rather than undermining the continuity of the partnership operations. We draw on the notion of democratic accountability and an in-depth qualitative sector-level case study in Uganda. The findings underscore the primacy of practices that help to reduce stakeholder information asymmetry, increase partnerships’ procedural legitimacy, and improve the understanding of substantive partnership outcomes.

scholarly journals Labour militancy and private contracting: public hospital ancillary services

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Stubbs
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Public Hospital ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Ancillary Services ◽  
Public Service Provision ◽  
Private Contracting

This paper attempts to show that regional variations in the strength of labour force militancy can be an important factor in mediating the regional development of privatization. By taking the private contracting of New Zealand public hospital ancillary services as a specific case study, it is seen that, in some cases, labour militancy can lead to the elimination of private contracting. While acknowledging the need for further research on this issue, some tentative conclusions are drawn on the relevance of labour militancy to the privatization of public service provision in other social contexts.

scholarly journals External Shocks in the Art Markets: How Did the Portuguese, the Spanish and the Brazilian Art Markets React to COVID-19 Global Pandemic? Data Analysis and Strategies to Overcome the Crisis

Arts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Adelaide Duarte ◽  
Ana Letícia Fialho ◽  
Marta Pérez-Ibáñez
Keyword(s):  
Art Market ◽  
External Shocks ◽  
Art Markets ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Brazilian Art ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, and the restrictions imposed by the social distance and the enforced confinement, are having an impact on the art markets globally. The aim of this article is to evaluate the impact of an external shock in the primary art market, using three countries as a case study: Portugal, Spain, and Brazil. These geographies have in common being at the margins in the art market’s main art hubs. It is intended to analyze how agents are responding to the new context, according to the data gathered within the gallery sector. The methods applied in the research are a combination of surveys carried out by the authors, field-based observation, along with an academic literature review, complemented by international and national reports analysis. The study’s main findings allow us to characterize the art market as a very resilient sector that energetically responded to the crisis, able to adapt and overcome challenges imposed by the new pandemic situation. Contemporary art galleries expanded digital activities, kept participating in art fairs hybrid models, continued to focus on internationalization, and pointed to the strengthening of public policies towards the sector and partnerships as key strategies to overcome the crisis.

Models of Public Service Provision—When Will Knights and Knaves Be Responsive to Pawns and Queens?

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lotte Bøgh Andersen ◽  
Nicolai Kristensen ◽  
Lene Holm Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Public Service Provision
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