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  title info:
    title: Evaluating Reforms of Local Public and Social Services in Europe
    sub title: More Evidence for Better Results
  name:
    name part: Koprić, Ivan.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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  name:
    name part: Wollmann, Hellmut.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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  name:
    name part: Marcou, Gérard.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXVI, 345 p. 7 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book explains the increasing demand for evaluation as a result of the increasing frequency of reforms to local services, influenced by the New Public Management doctrine, the severe austerity policy in many European countries, and the wish to increase quality and reduce costs of public services, especially at the local (sub-national) level. Positioned at the interface of local services and evaluation research, it will enable the utilization of evaluation-generated knowledge in evidence-based policy making by focusing on the lessons learned from evaluation of local service delivery. It encompasses local public and social services (including waste, water, public transport, healthcare, education and eldercare) and examines the hypothesis that there is a North-West-South-East divide in Europe in terms of the evaluation of local service reforms. Particular attention is devoted to the explanatory function of evaluation. Providing fresh insight into the functioning of local government machinery in contemporary Europe, this book will appeal in particular to practitioners and students of local government, public economy, public administration and policy.
  table of contents: 1: Evaluating Reforms of Local Public and Social Services in Europe; Ivan Koprić, Hellmut Wollmann -- 2: Regulatory Impact Assessment and Sub-National Governments; Gerard Marcou, Anamarija Musa -- 3: Less Plato and More Aristotle: Empirical Evaluation of Public Policies in Local Services; Germà Bel -- 4: The Politics of Evaluation in Performance Management Regimes in English Local Government; Martin Laffin -- 5: Evaluating Personal Social Services in Germany; Hellmut Wollmann, Frank Bönker -- 6: Healthcare Marketization in Spain: The Case of Madrid's Hospitals; José M. Alonso, Judith Clifton, Daniel Díaz-Fuentes -- 7: The Institutionalisation of Performance Scrutiny Regimes and Beyond: The Case of Education and Elderly Care in Sweden; Stig Montin, Vicki Johansson, Lena Lindgren -- 8: The Organization of Local Education in Poland: An Evaluative Approach to the Outsourcing Model; Łukasz Mikuła, Marzena Walaszek -- 9: Reforming Local Service Delivery by Contracting Out? Evaluating the Experience of Danish Road and Park Services; Kurt Houlberg, Ole Helby Petersen -- 10: The Efficiency of Local Service Delivery: The Czech Republic and Slovakia; Jana Soukopová, Beata Mikušová Meričková, Juraj Nemec -- 11: Effects of External Agentification in Local Government: A European Comparison of Municipal Waste Management Harald Torsteinsen, Marieke van Genugten, Łukasz Mikuła, Carla Puiggrós Mussons, Esther Pano Puey -- 12: The Emergence of Water Public Services Performance Evaluation in France; Pierre Bauby, Mihaela Similie -- 13: Evaluation of Delivery Mechanisms in Water Supply Industry - Evidence from Slovenia; Primož Pevcin, Iztok Rakar -- 14:Apprentice Sorcerers. Evaluating the Program Theory of Regulatory Governance in Italian Public Utilities; Giulio Citroni, Marco Di Giulio, Maria Tullia Galanti, Andrea Lippi, Stefania Profeti -- 15: Evaluation of Decentralisation Programme in Croatia: Expectations, Problems, and Results; Ivan Koprić, Vedran Đulabić -- 16: Ev…
  note: edited by Ivan Koprić, Hellmut Wollmann, Gérard Marcou.
  subject:
    topic: Public policy
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Political economy
  subject:
    topic: Public administration
  subject:
    topic: Public Policy
  subject:
    topic: Governance and Government
  subject:
    topic: International Political Economy
  subject:
    topic: Public Administration
  classification: JF1525.P6
  classification: 320.6
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Governance and Public Management
  identifier: 9783319610917
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61091-7
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    record creation date: 171020
    record change date: 20190703191021.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-61091-7