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Public Private Partnerships as a Systemic Instrument of Governance in Regional Innovation Policy
Full text linkWe discuss which systemic functions can be implemented in regional innovation systems by using public private partnerships (PPP) as a vehicle of governance in innovation policy. We analyze PPPs in the field of regional innovation policy in which Swedish municipalities and regional authorities have been involved. We find that such PPPs are able to address knowledge related systemic goals of regional innovation policy more comprehensively than entrepreneurial goals; that PPPs tend to address the quantitative dimensions of systemic goals of regional innovation policy better than qualitative dimensions; and that there is considerable variation how PPPs address innovation-related goals across types of regions and industries involved
Role of Municipal Council in Increasing Citizen Participation at the Local Budget Process
Full text linkThe paper explores the role of the municipal councilors in the budget process in the Republic of Macedonia as well as their role in motivating citizen participation in the budgetary process in the Republic of Macedonia. We demonstrate that municipalities in the Republic of Macedonia employ various forms of participatory mechanisms in the process of public policies and budgets according to their context. There are vivid dissimilarities in terms of opportunities and scope of citizen participation as well as discrepancies of councilors capacity to facilitate this process when cross-matching information and data derived from small rural and bigger urban municipalities. It is evident that very little has been accomplished in terms of defining uniformed processes and developing systems related to the relations between councilors and local community. We identify barriers that are impediment to a genuine involvement of the councilors as mediators between the Mayor and the community in the local budgeting process. We argue that any policy intervention in this dimension ought to be tailor-made, hence every municipality has its specific features that ought to be taken into account when designing an intervention to address shortcomings of the processes and the systems
Odnos med javnim podjetjem in lokalno skupnostjo v luči korupcijskih tveganj
Full text linkKorupcijo so kot velik gospodarski in socialni problem začeli prepoznavati šele proti koncu prejšnjega stoletja in od leta 1995 tudi sistematično raziskovati. Veliko so raziskovali korupcijo v javnem sektorju, predvsem v zdravstvu in javni upravi. Javnih podjetij, ki pa so prav tako pomemben del javnega sektorja, pa v teh raziskavah v glavnem ni niti zaznati. V teh podjetjih, ki so vitalnega pomena za lokalno skupnost, se obrača veliko denarja, ki izvira delno iz proračuna lokalnih skupnosti in delno iz plačila občanov za opravljene storitve; hkrati pa lahko lokalni politiki prek teh podjetij vplivajo na vsakdanje življenje v lokalni skupnosti. Kjer pa sta denar in vpliv, je pogosto tudi korupcija oziroma korupcijsko tveganje. Ker je ta tema dokaj neraziskana, je namen tega članka prikazati možna korupcijska dejanja oziroma korupcijska tveganja ter s tem odpreti v Sloveniji še neraziskano poglavje korupcije, ki bo v pomoč tudi vsem drugim raziskovalcem korupcije v javnem sektorju, hkrati pa opozoriti na možnost korupcije, ki se je še premalo zavedamo.Zato se je na podlagi raziskave različnih arhivov oblikovala osnovna taksonometrija korupcije, ki lahko nastane v razmerju med javnim podjetjem in lokalno skupnostjo, kjer tudi številni drugi avtorji zaznavajo možnost nastanka korupcijskih tveganj. Zaradi slabe medijske pokritosti pa tudi splošnega nepoznavanja korupcije na eni strani (časopisni arhivi) in predvsem statističnega navajanja na drugi (arhivi policije in KPK) je bilo težko narediti ustrezno taksonomijo.V taksonomiji so našteti najpogostejši primeri korupcije, primeri oblike le-teh in tudi področja, kjer se pojavljajo. V zaključku članka so navedene tudi nekatere ugotovitve glede na taksonomijo
Social Responsibility and Organisational Commitment in Local Public Administration: The Moderating Role of Organisational Citizenship Behaviour and Social Bonding
Full text linkThe commitment of public employees to organisations is an imperative deliberation that affects the efficiency of public services organisations. The objective of this study is to investigate whether the social responsibility among local public administrators raises organisational commitment. This study subsequently explores the moderating role of citizenship behaviour and social bonding (permanent vs temporary employees) of public employees in the relationship between social responsibility and organisational commitment. In this study, empirical data are collected from local officials working in local public administration services organisations in Pakistan (n = 308). The statistical analysis is used to test the relationship between social responsibility and commitment and the moderating effect of citizenship behaviour and social bonding on social responsibility-organisational commitment relationship.The results show that social responsibility is a determinant to organisational commitment and citizenship behaviour and social bonding moderate the social responsibility-commitment relationship. The effect of social responsibility on organisational commitment is stronger in permanent public administrators having high perspective of organisational citizenship behaviours than in temporary public administrators having low perspective of organisational citizenship behaviours. This study contributes to knowledge of the effect of social responsibility on organisational commitment in local public employees and proves that citizenship behaviour and social bonding affect the social responsibility-commitment relationship in local public administrators
Telework in Public Sector Organizations: The Slovak National Library
Full text linkReforms of government and public administration combined with use of information and communications technologies (ICT) have brought many innovations in public sector, including telework as a form of organizing and performing work out of the employers´ premises. This structural change in work organization aims at increasing efficiency and in some cases, economy, too. The authors used qualitative and quantitative approach based on original survey data from own research, including data collected within the LIPSE project. Main findings point out the factors that influence the use of telework in the conditions of Slovakia in a selected public sector organization, e.g. the social, technological and inter-institutional dynamics factors playing a vital role in telework adoption
Main Reasons for the Transformation of Mandatory Hungarian Private Pension Funds
Full text linkThe main purpose of writing this paper was to provide a clear summary of the main facts and motives of restructuring the financing of Hungarian social security system which has been in process since 2010. One of the main lessons learned from the development of the Hungarian pension system so far is that the mandatory private pension funds working on the basis of a funded scheme were not able to solve the problems whose solution they were established for. In addition, they caused further problems
Development of Public Administration and its Research in Slovenia through the Lenses of Content Analysis of the International Public Administration Review
Full text linkThe development of public administration (PA) is a worldwide topic of research, considering its importance in resolving governance issues in contemporary society. Consequently, the question of PA as a scientific discipline arises at both national and broader levels. In order to explore the state of affairs in PA trends in Slovenia and its regional context, an analysis was conducted involving 78 papers published in the leading Slovenian scientific journal – the International Public Administration Review – between 2011 and 2014. Content analysis as a method applied in the research is a widely recognized approach in social sciences and in the field of PA as well. Taking into account the respective analyses of the papers in terms of predominating discipline and mainstream topics, affiliation and collaboration of authors, language, methods of research and other criteria, we examined three main guidelines of editorial policy, namely the journal’s interdisciplinary, international and practical orientation. The results reveal that PA in Slovenia is rather multidisciplinary, with a prevailing role of management (HRM in particular), law and economics (the latter even mostly monodisciplinary). International and practical aspects, on the other hand, still offer some room for improvement. In sum, to support PA’s progress and its disciplinary evolution in line with global trends and the IPAR mission, a systematic interdisciplinary and all-European approach in future theory and practice is inevitable
Post-Soviet Features of Hungarian Administrative Sciences
Full text linkThe post-Soviet features of contemporary administrative sciences in Hungary are not just theoretical issues, they have a strong practical importance, as well. Our starting point is that the scientific field which does not have a clear relation to its own near past, may have neither a sound self-concept nor an exact vision of the future. One of the utmost weaknesses of Hungarian administrative sciences is the partial shortage of elaboration of inner processes after 1945 and the lack of systematic collection of scientifically relevant – but never published – documents of that period of time (1945–1990). Everyday tendencies of administrative sciences also offer some examples of post-Soviet features: the lack of the culture of criticism that is observable within the characteristics of sientific journals, and also within the features of professional record and qualification. Moreover, the positivist way of thinking of representatives of administrative law (and other administrative sciences) results in the dominance of commentaries, i.e. the philosophical and future-oriented, strategic scientific approaches to the problems are often secondary, residual. Actually, these effects in Hungary, compared with the situation within those countries that earlier also belonged to the Soviet bloc, do not show real differences as it has been proven by a questionnaire-based research conducted by the author
Des aspects de collégialité dans le fonctionnement du gouvernement grec: Le cas des gouvernements de coalition à l’époque du Mémorandum
Full text linkLe gouvernement est l’institution compétente pour la prise de décisions et la surveillance de la mise en application du programme gouvernemental. L’oeuvre de coordination du Premier ministre devient difficile quand il s’agit d’un gouvernement de coalition constitué de nombreux membres, séparés d’un fossé idéologique. Le Conseil des ministres a cessé de jouer son rôle constitutionnel, de formuler la politique générale du pays, et ce sont des réunions informelles qui ont substitué aux organes compétents. La qualité au sein de la gouvernance est un processus complexe avec des dimensions politiques, nécessitant quand même des conditions administratives et organisationnelles pour son succès
How to Assess Whether Qualified Evaluations of e-Government Projects Are Conducted? The Case of Slovenia
Full text linkCountries are investing significant resources in the development of e-government, but evaluations of e-government projects are rarely conducted in a comprehensive way. In order to take the right measures and to be effective in fostering the use and raising the quality of evaluations of e-government projects it is important to reveal the state of the practice. The paper presents the results of the research based on identification of parameters required to be measured in order to conduct qualified evaluations of e-government projects. Thirteen such paramaters were identified via the focus group, with participants comprising (Slovenian) e-government decision-makers and researchers. Using these 13 parameters and 7 additional questions about the knowledge and use of evalution methods a questionnaire was designed and applied in a survey on Slovenian public administration. Employing a binomial test and Fisher’s combined probability test it was established that in Slovenian public administration qualified evaluations of e-government projects were not being conducted. The method has demonstrated an eligible usability both for analysing the general situation and for exposing opportunities for improvement in various specific situations