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 Local Public Sphere for Discursive Public Service in Indonesia: Habermas Perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 427
Author(s):  
Dodi Faedlulloh
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Public Organization ◽  
Process Technology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Public Services ◽  
Contemporary Situation ◽  
The Government

Democracy is an important issue in the practice of public administration. Until the contemporary situation, democracy is a process that is constantly maintained to accommodate public aspirations. In the context of the democratic process, local public services could be determined by opening the deliberative public sphere and increasing public participation to think together what public services to be provided. This paper is an effort to explore the challenges, opportunities and possibilities of the terms of the acceptable public services for more stakeholders in Indonesia. In contrast to the practice of citizen charters that tend monologue in determining the services contract, the idea of local public sphere, public organization opens dialogue with all stakeholders including the public service users. Habermas's thought about public sphere be an inspiration in building the model of discursive public services. Historically, Indonesia has actually alreay had a concept of "musyawarah mufakat" (consensus) that is similar to deliberative democracy. Therefore, the prospect to create the public service policy that formulated together is possible. To open the possibility the theory into praxis, then the adaptation of Habermas's thought is formulated on a local scale, namely in the regions in Indonesia. Here, public sphere articulated with media or forum for all elements stakeholders for discussion and deliberation in defining public services. Now days with the development of technology, the opportunities will open widely. Beside to modernize and simplify the structure of the service process, technology can facilitate access to interact between the government and the public to create discursive public services.

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 Public Service Motivation through Responsibility and Reward and Punishment and Its Impact on Discipline of Regional Secretariat Employees

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Chairul Basrun Umanailo
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Public Services ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Utilities ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Stimulation Of

This analysis aims to examine the impact of transparency, compensation, and punishment on the discipline and morale of public services at the Regional Secretariat of the Mamuju district. This study was undertaken using a quantitative approach to describe the location of the variables measured and the relationship between one variable and the other. The population of this sample was 467 staff members of the District Secretariat of Mamuju. Determine the representative sample size of 83 individuals to consider using the Slovene formula. Path mapping is the method used for the test analysis. The findings revealed that transparency has a substantive and essential impact on the public service motivations of the Mamuju District Secretariat. Remuneration and punishment have a positive and significant influence on public services' stimulation at the Mamuju District Secretariat. Specific duties have a positive and significant impact on the discipline of the office. The Mamuju District Secretariat, remuneration, and penalties have, in part, a positive and significant effect on the domain of the Mamuju Regency Office, and the stimulation of public utilities has a positive and significant impact on it.

scholarly journals Alternative Service Delivery Arrangements at the Municipal Level in Slovenia and Croatia

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Božo Grafenauer ◽  
Mirko Klarić
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Public Services ◽  
Goods And Services

There has been extensive development and rapid expansion of alternative forms of public service provision at the local level in Slovenia and Croatia over the last twenty years. During that time, the private sector began to be intensively involved in performing public service activities and in investment financing for the public infrastructure construction, i.e., by the gradual introduction of the new forms of cooperation between the public and private sectors. However, the new Public-Private Partnership Act, which came into force in Slovenia in 2007 and in Croatia in 2008, signified a milestone in the legal regulation of alternative forms of public service delivery. The Act introduces European comparable arrangements and forms of public-private partnerships that can be either contractual or equity-based. Within public services, local public goods and services are mostly provided by public enterprises and institutions, and by awarding public service concessions. Other forms of public-private partnerships primarily include some forms of build-operate-transfer project financing. KEYWORDS: • local authorities • local self-government • local public services • public-private partnerships • concession • Slovenia • Croatia

scholarly journals De certains aspects de la juridiction de la Régie des services publics en matière de droit municipal

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 447-506
Author(s):  
Raoul-P. Barbe
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
Public Utilities ◽  
Utility Services ◽  
The Law

This paper presents a study as of July 1977, of statutory provisions, regulations and decisions which relate to the jurisdiction of the Quebec Public Service Board (Régie des services publics) and the law of municipal corporations in the field of public utilities. Among the topics covered are the following: the amendment of zoning by-laws prescribing the joint use of facilities by public utilities; disputes that arise when public utilities are required to use underground facilities; the role of municipal corporations in the provision of public utility services; and disputes between municipal corporations and public utilities.

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.

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.

scholarly journals Innovative Concept of Providing Local Public Services Based on ICT

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-167
Author(s):  
Beáta Mikušová Meričková ◽  
Nikoleta Jakuš Muthová
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Public Services ◽  
Innovation Potential ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Innovative Concept

Abstract The public sector faces the challenge of re-evaluating public service delivery mechanisms with a citizen orientation. The eGovernment concept should not only focus on delivering a large number of services to increase efficiency and effectiveness when deciding on a top-down approach, based on government needs, but decisions should be made on the basis of citizens’ needs, a bottom-up approach. The object of the paper is to identify problems of public service innovations demand and supply, which determinate the adoption of local public service innovations based on the use of IT technology in the condition of Slovak Republic. The results of the investigation confirmed that there is citizen demand for innovation of local public services, but the process of developing and implementing innovative concepts of public services fails on the grounds of the low innovation potential of the service providers.

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.

Re-municipalization of local public services: incidence, causes and prospects

2021 ◽  
pp. 002085232110064
Author(s):  
Daniel Albalate ◽  
Germà Bel ◽  
Raymond Gradus ◽  
Eoin Reeves
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Public Services ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
The Us ◽  
House Production ◽  
Shed Light

Since the turn of the century, a global trend of re-municipalization has emerged, with cities reversing earlier privatizations and returning infrastructure and public service delivery to the public sector. The reversal of privatization measures is not an entirely new phenomenon. In the US, for example, returning public services to in-house production has been a long-standing feature of ‘pragmatic public management’. However, many cases of re-municipalization that have occurred since the early 2000s represent a distinctive shift from earlier privatization policies. High-profile cases in cities including Paris and Hamburg have thrust re-municipalization into the limelight as they have followed public campaigns motivated by dissatisfaction with the results of privatization and a desire to restore public control of vital services, such as water and energy. Just as the reform of public services towards privatization spawned a vast body of scholarship, the current re-municipalization phenomenon is increasingly attracting the attention of scholars from a number of disciplinary perspectives. The articles contained in this symposium contribute to this emerging literature. They address some of the burning issues relating to re-municipalization, but they also point to issues yet to be resolved and shed light on a research agenda that is still taking shape.

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