The Problem of Delegated Activity

2020 ◽  
pp. 196-234
Author(s):  
Chiara Cordelli
Keyword(s):  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Of Nature ◽  
Private Agency ◽  
Private Actors

This chapter analyses private actors that have the standing to do what they are democratically authorized to do on behalf of government in terms of delegated activity. It points out how the public and private agency through which a certain decision is made, or a function is performed changes the very nature of the decision or function at stake. It also shows that private actors may fail to do what they are authorized to do even when they follow the terms of their government's authorization. The chapter mentions private actors that remain not very different from the unilateral actions of private individuals in the Kantian state of nature. It discusses privatization that compromises the very possibility of the delegated function, rather than the validity of its authorization or whether the function is performed in a representative capacity.

scholarly journals RESOURCE SUPPLY AN ACCESSIBILITY OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES

YMER Digital ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 446-455
Author(s):  
Eshetu Mathewos Juta ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Urban Mass Transit ◽  
Transportation Accessibility ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
Transportation Facilities

The term “urban mass transit” generally refers to scheduled intra-city service on a fixed route in shared vehicles. Public transportation is an important contributing factor to urban sustainability. Effective transportation networks that incorporate public transit livable by easing commute and transportation needs and increasing accessibility. To assess public transportation accessibility in metropolitan networks, two indices are used: the supply level of urban public transportation facilities resource and the public transportation-private automobile traveling time ratio. As the research in the Wolaita sodo town region and the assessment system, an evaluation technique for urban public transportation facility resource supply is developed based on accessibility. Accessibility is a representative indicator for evaluating the supply of bus system. Traditional studies have evaluated the accessibility from different aspects. Considering the interaction among land use, bus timetable arrangement and individual factors, a more holistic accessibility measurement is proposed to combine static and dynamic characteristics from multisource traffic data. The objective is to highlight the main lessons learned and identify knowledge gaps to guide the design and evaluation of future transport investments. Moreover, studies looking at ways to improve the operational efficiency of systems and those seeking to promote behavioral changes in transport users offer great potential to generate learning that is useful for the public and private actors involved.

Gambling control regimes

2018 ◽  
pp. 139-158
Author(s):  
Pekka Sulkunen ◽  
Thomas F. Babor ◽  
Jenny Cisneros Örnberg ◽  
Michael Egerer ◽  
Matilda Hellman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Control Structures ◽  
The Public ◽  
Gambling Regulation ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Private Actors

This chapter explores gambling regulation regimes, looking at the different control structures used, and their effectiveness in serving the public interest. Gambling has always been regulated by public policy, and in whichever way the industry is developing, government regulation is always involved. Regimes of gambling regulation involve both public and private actors and institutions. Public monopolies may be stronger in the area of consumer protection than restrictive licensing, associations-based operations or competitive markets. In considering the choice of regulation regime, policymakers would be well advised not to weigh the pros and cons or the costs and benefits of legal gambling in itself but to consider whether it is the best way to achieve the public interest goals compared to the alternatives.

Model Cooperative Efforts between the Public and Private Agency

1990 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 126-126
Author(s):  
A. Gidget Hopf
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Private Agency ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
State Office ◽  
Cooperative Relationship ◽  
Visually Handicapped

In New York State, an effective and cooperative relationship exists between the Council of Agency Administrators— comprising 17 not-for-profit agencies—and the Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped. This paper examines the role of each organization and hopes for future collaborative plans, including calls from the agencies for a combined state Office of Rehabilitation Services.

scholarly journals Transfer of Development Rights as Incentives for Regeneration of Illegal Settlements

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 639-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico Calavita ◽  
Francesco Calabrò ◽  
Lucia Della Spina
Keyword(s):  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Development Rights ◽  
Urban Complex ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
The City ◽  
Original Approach

In Italy, southern cities are often characterized by widespread phenomena of illegal settlements, that have resulted among other things in a worsening of the quality of life of the urban-rural interface, and the decline of the considerable architectural interest of the entire city. .The goal of this paper is to propose an approach that would help requalify what is already built, to make the best of what has been realized by focusing on the quality and liveability of the city. This approach is based on a particular methodology based on the promotion of Urban Complex Programs (PUC), which provide a system of development rights resulting from the demolition of unfinished illegal settlements . The benefits of this approach are many, including improvements in efficiencies and safety, meeting demands of environmental protection and reducing consumption of energy, responding to the highest standards of protection and seismic risk prevention. They can be obtained only on one condition: that they are based on a system of collective and public conveniences in accordance with the principle of sustainability in multiple dimensions (environmental, cultural, technological, political, institutional, social and economic). But for this approach to be viable it needs also to be convenient for the private actors as well. With this paper we hope to provide first an original approach that can improve the conditions of cities burdened with the problems of illegal settlements that is both sustainable and convenient and, second, an instrument that can provide information for both the public and private sectors on the fairness of the procedure and their mutual interest in pursuing this approach.

scholarly journals A gênese do ProEMI na perspectiva cognitiva das políticas públicas

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Eliza Bartolozzi Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Education In Brazil

This article aims to analyze the process that gave rise to the Innovative Higher Education Program (ProEMI) as a way of understanding the actions taken by public and private actors in the construction of a new project for secondary education in Brazil. The analysis seeks to understand the cognitive and normative framework that gave rise to and legitimized this educational policy, considering that policy is the result of a process of interaction and relations of force. ProEMI is a policy that seeks to transform the public action of managers, teachers, and students in the country's high schools. The study examines the period 2003-2016 and was developed in the cognitive theoretical perspective of public policies, a perspective focused on understanding the formulation and implementation of public policies based on the relationship between politics and the construction of social order and not just as a troubleshooting mechanism. We find that ProEMI originates from the public actions of a number of actors that construct and accept a matrix of interpretation, resulting in the emergence and legitimization of the choice of a public policy that calls for a counterhegemonic high school.

Analytical Capabilities of the Concept of "Competitiveness" in the Study of Public Administration Efficiency

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Oleh Zubchyk ◽  
Kyrylo Esennikov
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Efficiency ◽  
Country Competitiveness ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
The Relationship

The article analyzes various approaches to understanding the effectiveness of public administration, which are in foreign and Ukrainian scientific thought. The purpose of the article is to show that administrative efficiency is a component of the general social efficiency of public administration, so it can be studied with the help of analytical tools of competitiveness. The study found that administrative efficiency is often understood as the effectiveness of the organization and functioning of public administration. Administrative efficiency is also understood as the efficiency of management bodies and officials. The authors emphasize that the principles, criteria and factors of the study of effectiveness are very vague. This affects the objectivity of the reflection of the qualitative result of the activities of the public administration body. The scientific novelty of the study is that the authors offer new tools for the study of administrative efficiency. It competitiveness of the state. “Competitiveness” in the context of studying the effectiveness and efficiency of public administration, the subjects of public administration is not considered deeply in the Ukrainian science of public administration. Moreover, in Ukraine, the effectiveness of public administration is increasingly associated with the competencies of civil servants. The authors do not agree with this position and suggest a deeper analysis, firstly, the relationship between public administration efficiency and the country’s competitiveness and, secondly, a deeper study of the analytical capabilities of the theoretical and methodological construct “competitiveness”. Conclusions. As a result, the authors argue that the task of administrative efficiency as an indicator is to reflect an understanding of the activities of institutions, which depends on the efficiency and behavior of both public and private actors, a legal and administrative basis within which individuals, firms and governments interact. and it determines the quality of public institutions. Keywords: country competitiveness, efficiency, public administration, administration, state policy, concept.

Civil Society, Corporate Accountability and the Politics of Climate Change

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 122-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Newell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Corporate Accountability ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Civil Regulation ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Global Regime ◽  
Private Corporations ◽  
Private Actors

This article uses the lens of accountability to explore the shifting strategies of a range of civil society groups in their engagement with key actors in the global regime on climate change. It first reviews traditional strategies aimed at increasing the ‘public accountability’ of governments and UN bodies for agreed actions on climate change. This approach is then compared with the growing tendency to pursue the accountability of private corporations with respect to climate change. These strategies aim, among other things, to promote ‘civil regulation’: that is, governance of the private sector through civil society oversight. The final part of the article reflects on the possibilities and limitations of civil society actors performing such accountability roles in the contemporary politics of climate change and suggests key challenges for future climate advocacy. It argues that success in enhancing the accountability of public and private actors on the issue of climate change has been highly uneven and reflects both the effectiveness of the strategies adopted and the responsiveness of the target actors and institutions.

The Janus Face of Governance Theory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Sørensen ◽  
Jacob Torfing
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Management Perspective ◽  
Political Choices ◽  
Private Actors

While the main current in the growing research on governance has praised its virtues, a critical undertow has insisted that governance carries the danger of depoliticization and democratic decline. Chapter 2 aims to complicate things by arguing that interactive forms of governance intending to involve a plethora of public and private actors in the governing of society and the economy are not in themselves depoliticizing or repoliticizing public governance. Much depends on how we talk about governance. Hence, while the public management perspective tends to depoliticize governance, the political science perspective has a sharper eye for the political choices, conflicts, and power struggles. If the political science perspective has a blind spot, it concerns the role of elected politicians in the exercise of political meta-governance. That role is further developed towards the end of the chapter, which also reflects on the limits of repoliticization.

Global Governance und Menschenrechte

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janne Mende
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The Public ◽  
Normative Power ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Private Actors

Globalisation and global governance mean that private actors are involved in public regulation and decision-making processes. Companies in particular are experiencing an increase in power that goes far beyond mere economic indicators; that is, they are also gaining political and normative power. This book examines the opportunities and challenges that result from this, which are particularly evident in the field of international human rights. Public human rights are being challenged by the political and normative power of private actors. This does not only change human rights and global governance actors, but also requires a new perspective on both the private and public spheres. This book therefore develops a perspective on the hybrid, societal roles of companies, which form a third domain situated between and simultaneously beyond the public and private spheres.

scholarly journals Partnering for good? An analysis of how to achieve sustainability-related outcomes in public–private partnerships

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 485-511
Author(s):  
Katharina Spraul ◽  
Julia Thaler
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
Process Elements

Abstract Since 1987, members of the United Nations have strived for improving sustainability to fulfill the vision of sustainable development. Current discussions focus on the role of collaborations between public and private actors to realize social, ecological, and economic sustainability. This study explores how public–private partnerships may contribute to the achievement of sustainability-related outcomes by analyzing a longitudinal case in the German public bathing and swimming pool sector. The empirical findings illustrate how both external conditions, such as regulation or industry-self regulation, and internal elements, such as specific structure and process elements of the public–private partnership, contribute to sustainability-related outcomes. Results reveal an interaction of specific external conditions and some internal elements. Our findings serve as a starting point for further empirical investigations of the sustainable provision of public services via public–private partnerships, and form a basis for theory development. The revealed insights result in practical implications for partners involved in public–private partnerships.

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