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2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Regina Enjuto Martinez ◽  
Yuanyuan Qu ◽  
Jude Howell

Contracting of social services has been adopted in China as an innovation in welfare provision. This article reviews the emerging literature on contracting of services to social organisations in China in order to identify lines of further enquiry. It reviews research published in the English and Chinese languages up to 2018. We identify three distinct narratives: public sector reform, improvement of welfare service quality and capacity, and transformation of state-society relations. We contrast the identified narratives with the empirical evidence produced for the Chinese case. We demonstrate that, despite contradictory empirical evidence, the premise that contracting improves public sector efficiency and quality of services predominates. The narrative that contracting transforms state-society relations is contested. This article contributes to the understanding of how contracting of services is justified in theory and practice, and proposes an agenda for future social policy research on contracting of services to social organisations in China.


Author(s):  
Francisco Germano Carvalho Lucio ◽  
Jhorland Ayala Garcia

Author(s):  
Mårten Blix ◽  
Henrik Jordahl

Extensive welfare services require corresponding revenue. Large spending commitments imply that Sweden’s public sector finances are particularly sensitive to changing trends in demography and hours worked. A particular concern is that productivity growth in labour-intensive services is relatively difficult to uphold, the so-called Baumol effect. Increasing costs and spending pose a severe risk to the welfare state, but a risk that should be possible to handle. Though Sweden’s public finances remain among the strongest in the OECD, it will be a delicate balance to increase spending on welfare services at the desired rate. A continued focus on improving public sector efficiency will need to be coupled by a suitable balance between tax-funded services and parts that people will have to pay for privately.


Design Issues ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-100
Author(s):  
Helena Polati Trippe

Abstract Service design, as a practice and an area of research, has been at the forefront of the debates surrounding innovation, technology, and organizational change. More recently, service design is deployed as a means to drive public sector efficiency and address the growing complexity of public service delivery. This article examines the application of service design to policy making in order to situate service design at the intersection of research on public services, design, and policy design. Furthermore, it will explore how conceiving of policy instruments as design artifacts might provide a way to think about the object of policy design and government action.


Kyklos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-290
Author(s):  
Michael Christl ◽  
Monika Köppl‐Turyna ◽  
Dénes Kucsera

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 615-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sijuola Orioye Olanubi ◽  
Oluwanbepelumi Esther Osode ◽  
Abiodun Adewale Adegboye

Author(s):  
Tatyana KOLESNIK

In the given paper, the features of the influence of institutional incentives and power tools on the efficiency of decentralization in ensuring prosperity and in the context of economic growth are explored. The purpose of the given paper is to determine the instruments of government and to characterize the methods of using them to promote decentralization, as well as the mechanisms for financing local governments, the decentralization of information and to define their role in the application of market incentives for decentralization. To study the peculiarities of power tools and institutional incentives for decentralization, to determine the conditions for effective work of local government financing mechanisms, the benefits of information decentralization and types of market incentives, a methodology of desk research was used with analysis of the results of theoretical and applied research published in foreign literature. Secondary information has been gathered in the context of the experience of implementing reforms on decentralization of state power, the peculiarities of the institutional environment and the establishment of stimulating factors for increasing the efficiency of state power. Institutional incentives to increase the effectiveness of decentralization have a complex hierarchical structure, and their impact depends on many factors of local culture and management traditions. Decentralization of information and different market incentives may also have different effectiveness in their application. In any case, many changes are needed in the political system. In future studies, it is planned to focus on the peculiarities of decentralization in certain regions of Ukraine and to assess the state of implementation of the proposed mechanisms for funding local governments in specific circumstances.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Gersonskaya

The article investigates scientific approaches to the category of «public sector efficiency» that have been formed in foreign and domestic economic theory. The author substantiates the necessity of functioning of the public sector system of the national economy and evaluating the effectiveness of its activities. The author considers the first points of view in the scientific world of the physiocrat F. Kene, as well as representatives of the school of classical political economy W. Petty and D. Ricardo in determining the performance of government structures. We study the works of the founders of the concepts of effective functioning of activities in the market economy, including state organizations, such as V. Pareto, A. Pigou, J.M. Keynes, P.F. Drucker, and others. Modern concepts of the efficiency of the public sector of the economy in Western economic theory, developed by P.E. Samuelson, W.D. Nordhouse, R.A. Musgrave, J.E. Stiglitz, N.G. Mankyu, K.R. Mcconnell, and others. Analyzes the scientific approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of the public sector in the national economy domestic scientists-economists such as E.V. Balatsky, O.A. Kokorina, T.D. Romashchenko, Yu.I. Treschevsky, V.V. Lukyanova, O.V. Rudakova, E.M. Samorodova, A.V. Revkuts, S.R. Muravyov, etc. On the basis of analysis of scientific works the author has selected a targeted, cost management and production approaches to the evaluation of the effectiveness of the public sector. In the course of the study, it was concluded that evaluating the performance of the public sector of the national economy based on only two aspects is not appropriate, since it does not fully reflect the activities of all structural components of the public sector. The author believes that the structure of the public sector of the economy includes three main, specific and quite independent elements-management structures, state corporations and the «social sector of the state». Therefore, it is advisable to conduct a study of the efficiency of activity of the public sector of the national economy using a three-component indicator that reflects all areas of activity and aspects of its functioning.


Author(s):  
Juan Ramon Campos-Blázquez ◽  
Patricio Morcillo Ortega ◽  
Luis Rubio-Andrada ◽  
María Soledad Celemín-Pedroche

There are few studies that provide empirical evidence of the use of crowdsourcing initiatives within public organizations as an element that favors an innovative culture where employees are able to acquire a sense of accomplishment and recognition by presenting new ideas and innovative possibilities and, consequently, help to improve public sector efficiency and deliver new and better-quality services. Through a single case study, the purpose of this chapter is to assess how an internal ideation contest initiative (internal crowdsourcing) in a local government institution—Madrid City Hall (Spain)—can promote intrapreneurship and be a lever for a culture of innovation in public organizations, for which the authors have used the innovation culture model of Rao and Weintraub as a theoretical framework. The results show that through that initiative, Madrid City Hall was able to enable employees' participation, leverage collective intelligence, and definitely stimulate an entrepreneurial spirit within their organization.


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