197,626 research outputs found
Co-production in the Public Sector. Experiences and Challenges
No full textThis book examines the various ways in which co-production can contribute to the
creation, design, and delivery of public services, namely by engaging the expertise of
users and their networks, by promoting public services that are better targeted and more
responsive to users, by cutting costs against the background of austerity in public finance,
by creating a synergy between government and civil society that will impact positively
on social capital, and by addressing the challenges resulting from growing democratic
and citizenship deficits. Particular attention is paid to local government and the health
and social care sector. After definition of the concept of co-production, the critical issues
which arise when public services are co-produced are discussed. Various experiences of
co-production are presented and analyzed with a view to highlighting why, how, and with
what effect public service co-production may be implemented. Individual chapters focus
on the impact of co-production in making cities smarter and the use of ICT in supporting
co-production of public services. The book will be of relevance to a wide readership,
from students to academics and professionals interested or engaged in public service
management
When is Personalisation Considered a Form of Co-production? The Case of Personal Budgets Reform in English Social Care
No full textIn recent times, co-production has become an all-embracing term applied in different contexts and with several meanings. Broadly speaking, co-production can be considered any “regular, long-term relationships between professionalized service providers and service users” (Bovaird in Public Adm Rev 67:847, 2007). Osborne and Strokosch (Br J Manag 24:S31–S47, 2013) differentiated co-production into three categories: operational, strategy and service. Although some of these categories may overlap, the focus of the present chapter is on the operational model of co-production
Co-production of public services: Meaning and motivations
No full textCo-production is an umbrella term whose meaning has been widely debated on and whose practical consequences for public service delivery are an open research issue. This introductory chapter attempts to define what co-production is and what it is not, by an overview of the up-to-date literature. The chapter concludes by presenting the aims of the book and the main contents, and its relevance and contributions
Mario Bracci e il suo archivio
No full textIl fascicolo 2 dell'annata 127 (2015) di "Studi senesi" raccoglie gli atti del seminario "Mario Bracci e il suo archivio" (Siena, Aula magna storica, 16 aprile 2015). Comprende saggi di S. Fruzzetti, S. Moscadelli, G. Cianferotti, F. Colao, E. Bindi, L. Nuti e i testi degli interventi nella tavola rotonda finale di M. Barni, G. Grottanelli de' Santi, R. Bracci, G. Catoni
Index theorems for holomorphic self-maps
No full textLet be a complex manifold and a (possibly singular) subvariety of . Let be a holomorphic map such that restricted to is the identity. We show that one can associate to a holomorphic section of a sheaf related to the embedding of in and that such a section reads the dynamical behavior of along . In particular we prove that under generic hypotheses the canonical section induces a holomorphic action in the sense of Bott on the normal bundle of (the regular part of) in and this allows to obtain for holomorphic self-maps with non- isolated fixed points index theorems similar to Camacho-Sad, Baum-Bott and variation index theorems for holomorphic foliations. Finally we apply our index theorems to obtain information about topology and dynamics of holomorphic self-maps of surfaces with a compact curve of fixed points
Co-production in the Public Sector: Experiences and Challenges
No full textThis book examines the various ways in which co-production can contribute to the creation, design, and delivery of public services, namely by engaging the expertise of users and their networks, by promoting public services that are better targeted and more responsive to users, by cutting costs against the background of austerity in public finance, by creating a synergy between government and civil society that will impact positively on social capital, and by addressing the challenges resulting from growing democratic and citizenship deficits. Particular attention is paid to local government and the health and social care sector. After definition of the concept of co-production, the critical issues which arise when public services are co-produced are discussed. Various experiences of co-production are presented and analyzed with a view to highlighting why, how, and with what effect public service co-production may be implemented. Individual chapters focus on the impact of co-production in making cities smarter and the use of ICT in supporting co-production of public services. The book will be of relevance to a wide readership, from students to academics and professionals interested or engaged in public service management
Domenico Augusto Bracci "antiquariolo" a Roma dal 1747 al 1769
No full textNel ricco panorama dell'erudizione antiquaria di metà Settecento, la figura di Bracci contribuisce alla conoscienza e circolarità del modello fiorentino anche nell'Urbe. I rapporti con altri studiosi e collezionisti del tempo arricchirono l'esperienza del personaggio che dopo il soggiorno romano avrebbe avuto anche mansioni di responsabilità per le collezioni pubbliche della Galleria fiorentina
Embeddings of submanifolds and normal bundles
No full textThis paper is devoted to the study of the embeddings of a complex submanifold S inside a
larger complex manifold M; in particular, we are interested in comparing the embedding of S in M with the
embedding of S as the zero section in the total space of the normal bundle NS of S in M. We explicitely
describe some cohomological classes allowing to measure the difference between the two embeddings, in
the spirit of the work by Grauert, Griffiths, and Camacho-Movasati-Sad; we are also able to explain the
geometrical meaning of the separate vanishing of these classes. Our results holds for any codimension, but
even for curves in a surface we generalize previous results due to Laufert and Camacho-Movasati-Sad
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