scholarly journals The community philanthropic foundation: A new form of independent public service provider for China?

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shihong Weng ◽  
Tom Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
New Type ◽  
Philanthropic Foundation

There have been growing calls for new theories understand public governance with respect to service provision collaboration involving nonprofit and for-profit actors. In this article, we develop a framework for analyzing whether and how independent public service providers change cross-sector collaboration. We examine new forms of collaboration in nonprofit organizations in China. Based on a discussion of the effectiveness of public service delivery by community philanthropic foundations in three Chinese cities, our analysis reveals that the new type of collaboration entities are attempting to meet unfulfilled public needs. Outside the government’s hierarchical structure, nonprofit and for-profit actors jointly form independent organizations to address public issues. However, because public governance systems are more centralized in China than in many Western countries, the country faces major challenges in the production and delivery of public goods and in implementing service reforms. This article extends the existing research discourse on public governance and cross-sector collaboration.

Public – Private Partnerships as Catalysts for Community-Based Water Infrastructure Development: The Border WaterWorks Program in Texas and New Mexico Colonias

10.1068/c12w ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Carmen Lemos ◽  
Diane Austin ◽  
Robert Merideth ◽  
Robert G Varady
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Disadvantaged Communities ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Water And Wastewater ◽  
Public Versus Private

Increased awareness of shortcomings in both provision and maintenance of public services is triggering new approaches to policymaking and service delivery. Conventional debates over public versus private service provision obscure the multiple configurations possible. We consider the effectiveness and desirability of an alternative approach to public-service provision of water and wastewater services, specifically the Border Waterworks program, which has helped deliver water-related services to economically disadvantaged communities ( colonias) along the US – Mexico border. We explore some issues that emerge when nonprofit organizations take on functions of governments and service providers, and examine the conditions under which the provision of water and wastewater infrastructure can be advanced by nonprofit organizations. We conclude that the general effectiveness of Border Waterworks was thanks to its ability to adapt to local circumstances and respond to situations as they arose in the context of the numerous problems in colonias. We also conclude that nonprofit providers are most effective when they serve as catalysts that assist the public sector rather than when they provide public-service infrastructure on their own.

scholarly journals Public Private Partnership between Local Governments and Nonprofits in Japan

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoko Okuyama ◽  
Yu Ishida ◽  
Naoto Yamauchi
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Public Service Provision

In the framework of public sector reform and the recently popularized concept of a “new public sphere,” attention has been focused on the significance and effectiveness of public private partnership (PPP). However, the smooth operation of PPP practice is yet to be realized, and the nonprofit sector still faces challenges in becoming a government partner in public service provision. We examine government behavior in PPP practice and its stance on partnership practice and collaborative relations with contemporary nonprofit organizations. Through public finance statistics and a unique set of variables, an empirical analysis reveals that the existence of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) positively affects local government decisions to implement PPP practices and outsource to NPOs for public service provision. Other influential factors include local governments’ budgetary conditions, attitudes towards public administration and finance, local chief executive characteristics, and neighboring local government behaviors.

scholarly journals New Public Management and Governance: Quo Vadis?

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 430
Author(s):  
Vasilios P. Andrikopoulos ◽  
Amalia Α. Ifanti
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
Organizational Conditions ◽  
Governance Regime ◽  
New Public ◽  
Quo Vadis

This paper seeks to provide an overview of the literature regarding contemporary public management and administration. For this purpose, New Public Management and New Public Governance principles and methods are explored, since they remain the dominant approaches to public management and governance regime. A systematic examination of the relevant discourse was carried out. Data analysis revealed that the theoretical schemes continue to emphasize the priority of management over public service. As a result, the New Public Service approach is revisited focusing primarily on the reinterpretation and reorientation of public service provision. This study enriches our theoretical and practical understanding by providing important reflections and insights about the organizational conditions of public sector reform that is proceeding nowadays.

scholarly journals Creaming and parking in marketized employment services: An Anglo-German comparison

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (11) ◽  
pp. 1427-1453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Greer ◽  
Lisa Schulte ◽  
Graham Symon
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
For Profit ◽  
National Institutions

The delivery of public services by nonprofit and for-profit providers alters the nature of services and jobs, often in unintended and undesired ways. We argue that these effects depend on the degree to which the service is ‘marketized’, that is, subjected by the funder to price-based competition. Using case studies of British and German employment services, this article scrutinizes the link between funding practices and service quality. Of particular concern in marketized employment services is the problem of ‘creaming and parking’, in which providers select job-ready clients for services and neglect clients more distant from the labour market. We explore three questions. What are the mechanisms through which marketization produces creaming and parking? What are the differences between these mechanisms in commercial and non-commercial service providers? Which national institutions might serve as a buffer for the landscape of service provision facing price-based competition?

Quasi-Market Competition in Public Service Provision: User Sorting and Cream-Skimming

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thorbjørn Sejr Guul ◽  
Ulrik Hvidman ◽  
Hans Henrik Sievertsen
Keyword(s):  
Grade Point Average ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Public High Schools ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Cream Skimming ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Quasi-markets that introduce choice and competition between public service providers are intended to improve quality and efficiency. This article demonstrates that quasi-market competition may also affect the distribution of users. First, we develop a simple theoretical framework that distinguishes between user sorting and cream-skimming as mechanisms through which quasi-markets may lead to high-ability users becoming more concentrated among one group of providers and low-ability users among a different group. Second, we empirically examine the impact of a nationwide quasi-market policy that introduced choice and activity-based budgeting into Danish public high schools. We exploit variation in the degree of competition that schools were exposed to, based on the concentration of providers within a geographical area. Using a differences-in-differences design—and register data containing the full population of students over a 9-year period (N = 207,394)—we show that the composition of students became more concentrated in terms of intake grade point average after the reform in high-competition areas relative to low-competition areas. These responses in high-competition regions appear to be driven both by changes in user sorting on the demand side and by cream-skimming behavior among public providers on the supply side.

scholarly journals Integrating Egyptian mental health services into primary care: the policy maker's perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasser Loza
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
The Public ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Psychiatric Beds

Egypt has a population of roughly 80 million, served by about 9000 psychiatric beds, 1000 psychiatrists (one psychiatrist per 80 000 citizens), 1900 psychiatric nurses and about 200 clinical psychologists (Okasha, 2004). Service providers fall into three main sectors: public, private, and not-for-profit non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The public sector is managed essentially by the Ministry of Health and bears the brunt of service provision.

China's New Urbanisation Plan to Revamp Public Service Provision

2014 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 20-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiwei QIAN
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Average Annual Growth Rate ◽  
Annual Growth Rate ◽  
Public Service Provision ◽  
New Type

In March 2014 China unveiled plans for a “new type” of urbanisation largely to revamp public service provision. Rapid urbanisation has made public service provision in urban areas imperative. Urban population in China hit 731 million (53% of total population) by end-2013, from about 191 million people (less than 20% of total population) in 1980, representing an average annual growth rate of four per cent.

Informating Public Governance

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alois A. Paulin
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Semantic Context ◽  
Direct Control ◽  
Natural Evolution ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
The Core ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
Technological Ecosystems ◽  
Digital Governance

This treatise explores the possibilities and constraints to informate public governance. Informating as used in this context refers to the ability to technically control / steer the core provision of public governance by means of information technology, rather than steering public governance through political policies. Thus informating governance is about technology-enabled direct control of public service provision, in contrast to electronic or digital governance, which is about technology for government agencies. Well-established disciplinary theories from political sciences, sociology, and jurisprudence on public governance are explored to establish a foundation for understanding governance informatability, and a shared semantic context is established, to align the complex concepts of governance provision, and governance informatization. Based on thus established trans-disciplinary foundation, it is argued that a natural evolution of dedicated technological ecosystems can take place.

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