..., decentralization, debureaucratization and depoliticization. In addition, no single study exists regarding agencification in Greece; thus, the paper is the first to provide an overall view of the Greek arm's length bodies. Agencification has been a critical component of the reform and reorganization agenda...

...Maria Elena Santagati; Sara Bonini Baraldi; Luca Zan Purpose Decentralization is a widespread and international phenomenon in public administration. Despite the interest of public management scholars, an in-depth analysis of the interrelationship between two of its forms – deconcentration...

... Decentralization Performance appraisals New public management Education Globalization Management-by-objectives A widely accepted narrative that NPM reforms originated in influential “leading-edge” countries does not mean that, as of 2012, NPM-type managerial practices were more prevalent there than...

...@web.de 06 10 2016 10 02 2017 28 04 2017 06 05 2017 02 06 2017 China Brazil India South Africa Decentralization Finance H710 R51 The world has moved into the urban millennium [1] . This process was heavily shaped in the past and will be shaped...

...Elona Guga Purpose An attempt will be made to shed light on the course and pattern of the decentralization process by analyzing the historical development of local government and the territorial-administrative reform of 2015-2020 in Albania and the factors that have been shaping it. The scope...

... as the other three functions of Stoker’s local government typology. But from the point of view of the typology, it is noteworthy that the welfare function is emphasized over the other roles in all of the Nordic countries. What best distinguishes the Nordic countries from other decentralized systems...

... sector, based on the main lines of the public administration reform. The data were supplemented by documentary analysis, including legislative documents and papers in specialized area of administrative decentralization and civil society participation in local public policies. Findings – The paper...

...Ian Roberge; David K. Jesuit; Charles Conteh Purpose This paper aims to analyze the opportunities and challenges of public policy governance in industrialized democracies in the context of a globally integrated economy on the one hand and institutional decentralization on the other...

... UP Limited 2001 Competition Spain Insurance Decentralization Work‐related injury In Spain, as in the majority of its neighbouring countries, the safeguarding of health in the workplace is a constitutional right[1]. Although all companies are obliged to insure their employees...

...Godwin Awio; Deryl Northcott Like a number of other developing countries in recent years, Uganda has adopted a decentralized management structure for its public sector. Along with this restructuring came the devolution of budgetary responsibilities. Presents findings from a study of the impact...

.... Phase one of the research comprised the collection of documentary information from a number of new unitaries; phase two involved face‐to‐face interviews with either officers or members at selected “case study” authorities. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Decentralization Local government Local...

...P.S. Reddy; T. Sabelo Local government is the second or third tier of government deliberately created to bring government to the grassroots population, as well as give its members a sense of involvement in the political process that controls their daily lives. Decentralization is a natural...

... in development: local public administration, 1870‐1950; central Welfare State, 1950‐1980; and decentralized provision, 1980‐1995. Goes on to argue that, in order to understand this sequence, and especially the emergence of centralized public provision, it is necessary to discuss modes of delivery of services...