Decentralization, Governance and Public Services: The Impact of Institutional Arrangements

2018 ◽  
pp. 45-88
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Dealing fairly with trade imbalances in monetary unions

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-66
Author(s):  
Marco Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
Trade Deficit ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Monetary Unions ◽  
Member States ◽  
Trade Imbalances ◽  
Theories Of Justice ◽  
The Impact

Politicians around the globe wrangle about how to deal with trade imbalances. In the Eurozone, members running a trade deficit accuse members running a surplus of forcing them into deficit. Yet political philosophers have largely overlooked issues of justice related to trade imbalances. I address three such issues. First, what, if anything, is wrong with trade imbalances? I argue that in monetary unions, trade imbalances can lead to domination between member states. Second, who should bear the burden of rebalancing trade? I argue that surplus and deficit countries should share that burden. The current situation placing the burden squarely on deficit countries is unjust. Third, which institutional arrangements should monetary unions adopt to regulate trade balances? Monetary unions can either reduce trade imbalances within the monetary union, neutralise the impact of trade imbalances on the economic sovereignty of member states, or delegate economic policy affecting trade balances to a legitimate supranational institution. The Eurozone must adopt one of these options to prevent member states from domination. Which option protects members best against domination depends on what makes interference between members arbitrary, an unresolved question in republican theories of justice.

scholarly journals ANALISIS KINERJA REALISASI ANGGARAN PENDAPATAN DAN BELANJA DAERAH SERTA POTENSI PENDAPATAN ASLI DAERAH PADA KABUPATEN MINAHASA UTARA

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathania Ch. E. Sasuwuk ◽  
Jullie J. Sondakh ◽  
Jessy D. L. Warongan
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Government Budget ◽  
Regional Income ◽  
Local Revenue ◽  
The North ◽  
Regional Management ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Research Show

Realization of Regional Government budget (APBD) is one of measure instrument to see  the implementation from policies and operationalization implementation of financial regional management for optimal actualization public services. Management potential of Local Revenue (PAD) have to do with correct and appropriate in order to support the progress. The purpose of this research are to know and analyze the realization performance of regional government budget and district own source revenue potential at North Minahasa Region. The result of this research show the regional government budget of North Minahasa in terms of revenue considered good by looking from variance analyzes and tax effectiveness, expect from decentralization  degree analyzes is not good enough or low. While for expense, from variance analyzes over all is good by looking at the budget are well controlled and the impact in the North Minahasa Region for having an surplus from the allocated budget, and for compatibility analyzes expenditure are effective because realization of the expense budget not over amount that has been planned. And for the Own Source Revenue Potential for 2016-2020 seen from tax regional income are 42,78% while from regional retribution are 37,36%. Keywords: performance, government, budget, Potential, Local Revenue

scholarly journals Self-managing socialism and urban planning: The case study of general plan of Belgrade 1972

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-94
Author(s):  
Jelena Radosavljević
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Planning Practice ◽  
General Plan ◽  
Managing System ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims to open up a discussion about relations between former Yugoslavia's socialism and planning practice resulting from self-managing system established in early 1950s. Although this system was applied through a top-down approach, it implied, at least allegedly, coordination, integration and democratic harmonisation of particular interests with common and general ones on local level. The paper will briefly review the history and concept of socialist ideology and consider the impact that it had on institutional arrangements evolution and planning practice in Serbia. It will then touch on the role of ideology for urban planning process at the local level, understanding self-managing planning principles, their benefits, role and significance in planning practice.

Pandemic effects on public service employment in Australia

2021 ◽  
pp. 103530462110560
Author(s):  
Linda Colley ◽  
Shelley Woods ◽  
Brian Head
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Considerable Change ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Public Sector Employment ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic is sending shockwaves through communities and economies, and public servants have risen to the novel policy challenges in uncharted waters. This crisis comes on top of considerable turmoil for public services in recent decades, with public management reforms followed by the global financial crisis (GFC) leading to considerable change to public sector employment relations and a deprivileging of public servants. The research adopts the lens of the ‘public service bargain’ to examine the effects of the pandemic across Australian public services. How did Australian public service jurisdictions approach public employment in 2020, across senior and other cohorts of employees? How did this pandemic response compare to each jurisdictions’ response to the GFC a decade earlier? The research also reflects more broadly of the impact on public sector employment relations and to what extent pandemic responses have altered concepts of the diminished public service bargain or the notion of governments as model employers? JEL Codes J45

A CONCEPTUAL PAPER ON THE INFLUENCE OF MUTUAL RESPECT ON LEADER-SUBORDINATE RELATIONSHIP IN THE MALAYSIAN PUBLIC SERVICES

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
Syahrir Rahman ◽  
Nomahaza Mahadi
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Dyadic Relationship ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fair Treatment ◽  
Positive Performance ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Respect has a crucial role in a dyadic relationship, especially between leader and subordinate, because of the reciprocal costs in the relationship when respect is gained or earned. Leaders can be respected because of their position or fair treatment given to their subordinates. Respect has been featured in the leadership literature; however, few touches on the perspective of mutuality in respect, especially in a dyadic leader-subordinate relationship. The impact of the leader-subordinate relationship is significant in the Malaysian public services, as the scheme of grades determines the employees’ hierarchy. The Malaysian public services organizations' issues often arise from employees’ behavior and working relationships that affect their delivery. A high exchange of the dyadic leader and subordinate relationship correlated with desirable outcomes such as positive performance and attitudinal outcomes. One of the significant elements of the subordinates’ response is the attitude of respect towards the leader. Hence, this paper aimed to investigate the influence of mutual respect on the leader-subordinate working relationship in the public services that has implications for performance and service delivery.

Measuring Cost-Effectiveness in Terms of Happiness

2019 ◽  
pp. 197-210
Author(s):  
Andrew E. Clark ◽  
Sarah Flèche ◽  
Richard Layard ◽  
Nattavudh Powdthavee ◽  
George Ward
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Controlled Experiments ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The Impact

This chapter demonstrates that policy analysis should be based on happiness as the measure of benefit (except where traditional methods actually work). It argues that this should be generally applied throughout the public services and by nongovernment organizations (NGOs). The chapter offers four key proposals. The first is that the goal of governments should be to increase the happiness of the people and, especially, to reduce misery. Where willingness to pay is not a feasible measure of benefit, governments should develop new methods of policy analysis based on point-years of happiness as the measure of benefit. All policy change should be evaluated through controlled experiments in which the impact on happiness is routinely measured. A major objective of social science (and of its funders) should be to throw light on the causes of happiness, and how it can be enhanced—and at what cost.

Measuring and Evaluating E-Government

2011 ◽  
pp. 1690-1707
Author(s):  
Christiaan Holland ◽  
Frank Bongers ◽  
Rens Vandeberg ◽  
Wouter Keller ◽  
Robbin te Velde
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Public Services ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Measuring Tool ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
The Impact

In this chapter we describe research we have conducted on measuring e-government in the Netherlands. This research was commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Ministry of the Interior in the Netherlands. There are many aspects and benefits of e-government which are missing in existing measuring tools and concepts. Existing benchmark studies lack a theoretical basis and merely look at the supply side of electronic government: the availability of electronic services. Actual use or the impact of electronic public services is not captured. We therefore have developed a new concept and measuring tool for e-government. This tool is being used in a benchmarking study, the results of which will be published by the end of this year.* For this reason we have only described the methodological aspects of our approach here. We believe our experience in this research project and this measuring tool can contribute to the discussion on new ways to measure and evaluate e-government from an international perspective.

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