Evaluating reforms of local public and social services in Europe : more evidence for better results /: more evidence for better results. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ivan Koprić, Hellmut Wollmann, Gérard Marcou, editors.
• Editors: Koprić, Ivan; Wollmann, Hellmut, 1936-; Marcou, Gérard
• 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: Evaluating the Impact of Decentralization on Local Public Management Modernization in Croatia; Jasmina Džinić, Romea Manojlović -- 17: Evaluation of an Anti-Monopolist Program in Hungarian Public Utilities; Tamás M. Horváth -- 18: Metropolitan Municipality Reform: Rescaling Of Municipal Service Delivery in Turkey; Yeşeren Eliçin -- 19: Policy Evaluation Capacity in the Greek Local Government: Formal Implementation and Substantial failures; Theodore N. Tsekos, Athanasia Triantafyllopoulou -- 20: Lessons Learned from Successful and Unsuccessful Local Public and Social Services Delivery Reforms; Ivan Koprić.-
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 361.94; Social service -- Europe; Municipal services -- Europe; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services; Municipal services; Social service; Europe; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319610917; 3319610910
• Related ISBNs: 9783319610900; 3319610902
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 26, 2017).
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