scholarly journals Problems associated with the notion of “public duties” and “public utility services” with regard to the principle of the autonomy of local self-governments in Poland – an analysis of selected issues

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4 (2)) ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Grażyna Cern
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Utility Services

The aim of this paper is to highlight specific features related to the performance of public duties by local self-governments, focusing on their autonomy. Hence, it is essential that the conceptual boundaries of such notions as ‘public duties’ and duties associated with ‘public services’ are established at the outset. The current lack of clarity contributes to the complexity of the issue, and this is further complicated by a lack of clear legal regulations which would explicitly define the acceptable way in which public duties assigned to local self-governments are to be implemented. These issues suffice to explain the choice of the topic tackled in this study. Admittedly, it will not provide answers to all the problems associated with the public utility services which fall within the scope of the public duties discharged by particular local self-government units: gmina (municipality/commune), powiat (county), or województwo (voivodeship). However, it may form the basis for further research to be conducted in this field. Therefore, within the framework of this paper, issues related to local self-governments, their autonomy, and the concepts of ‘public duties’ and ‘duties in the field of public utility’ will be discussed. These issues are important, as they are inextricable from the decentralization of public authority, which consists in assigning numerous public duties to be fulfilled by local self-governments.

An Analysis of the Provision of Local Public Utility Services by Way of Illustration of Two Slovenian Municipalities

10.4335/82 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-219
Author(s):  
Božo Grafenauer
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
Public Utilities ◽  
Public Enterprise ◽  
Public Enterprises ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Public Services ◽  
Legal Foundations ◽  
Utility Services

Among the tasks performed by the Slovenian municipalities to meet the needs of individual residents there is also the provision of local public services. A municipality provides the performance of the public services determined by the municipality itself, and the performance of the public services established by law (local public services). The legal foundations for the regulation and operation of public utility services are given primarily in the Local Self-Government Act and in the Public Utilities Act, as well as in sector-specific laws for individual services. The overview of public utility services and the modes of their performance in two urban municipalities indicate that in Slovenian municipalities, public utility services are performed primarily in two ways: in public enterprises and by awarding a public service concession. KEYWORDS: • local public services • public service delivery • municipality • concession • public enterprise • Slovenia

scholarly journals New Trends in Improving Public Service Delivery in Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
Tymur O. Slobodeniuk
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
Public Service Delivery ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
Utility Services

In the aspect of the European integration aspirations of Ukrainian society and the social development of the nation state, the issues of its service function formation in the form of public services are becoming more and more relevant in Ukraine. It is worth noting that the functioning of the service state model in Ukraine is only at its initial stage and requires improvement of the institutional arrangements for the public services delivery, which involves taking into account existing problems of their delivery by public authorities in the process of deepening the local government reform and long-term restructuring of the national economy. The purpose of the article is to state the areas of concern in the system for providing administrative, social, housing and public utility services, and to define and elaborate on long-term trends for improving their functioning, as well as their common features and characteristics. The modern general and specific scientific research methods have provided the methodological basis for the research. Their use is based on a systematic approach. The analytical method was used to identify the problematic area of the branched public service delivery system. The comparative-functional and analytical methods were used to identify modern trends in improving the provision of administrative, social, housing and public utility services, their functioning, as well as their common features and characteristics. The research process has provided a comprehensive grounding and articulation of promising trends in improving the system of providing administrative, social and housing and public utility services in Ukraine and identifying their functional features and common characteristics

scholarly journals Study on the Management of the Domestic Sanitation Service in the Commune of Bosanci, Suceava County

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Irina Bilouseac ◽  
Ana-Maria Croitor
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
The Public ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Utility Services ◽  
Direct Management ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

In Romania, the management of public utility services is organized and performed in the following forms: direct management or indirect management or delegated management. In this article we have chosen as a model the public sanitation service in the commune of Bosanci and we want to highlight what is the best way to optimize this service, in direct management or delegated management. The public sanitation service in Bosanci is a public service that has been provided over time through both forms of management. The inhabitants of Bosanci were provided with the sanitation service both in direct management and in delegated management, respectively until the end of 2018 in delegated management, and starting with 2019 in direct management, and in order to highlight the advantages and disadvantages of each form we will present comparatively the way in which the domestic sanitation service was provided, which currently benefits 7400 inhabitants.

The Public Services Provided by Brazilian Government Over the Internet

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Calmon Moniz de Bittencourt Filho ◽  
Elizabeth R. Loiola
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Brazilian Government

THE PUBLIC SERVICES

BMJ ◽  
1925 ◽  
Vol 2 (3375) ◽  
pp. 447-454
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
The Public

On Westminster

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. W. Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Parliamentary Government ◽  
British Commonwealth

This chapter is not an example of comparative politics but of area studies, a field that is descriptive, cultural, historical, and contextual, seeking to analyse a country or region. The chosen area is the dominion countries of the British Commonwealth. The chosen method is the textual analysis of primary sources: speeches, writings, evidence to inquiries, and interviews by heads of the public services. This chapter analyses how the heads of the public services articulate the traditions of ‘constitutional bureaucracy’ found in Westminster systems of parliamentary government and selectively draw on past understandings to understand present-day changes. It describes traditions under challenge that reshape reforms as reforms reshape them. In each case, it is not a question of ‘in with the new, out with the old’, but of ‘in with the new alongside key components of the old’. The myths and legends of yore remain germane to the modern public service.

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