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Governance and public service delivery in Europe and Central Asia : unofficial payments, utilization and satisfaction, Vol. 1 of 1
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationUsing data from the 2010 Life in Transition Survey, this paper examines the levels of citizens' satisfaction with public service delivery in Europe and Central Asia and identifies some factors that may help explain variation in utilization and levels of satisfaction with service delivery. It finds satisfaction with public service delivery in Europe and Central Asia to be relatively high, and,...
Стратегии институциональных реформ: Китай и Россия (Institutional Reform Strategies: China and Russia)
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Justice, Public Administration, Academic/Think TankThis is the second part of the work devoted to the problem of the choice of institutional reform strategies. In the first part a concept of a promising trajectory was introduced. This is a trajectory that has good chances to be successful since it meets a number of requirements; their list was discussed in detail. In this paper, proposed analytical tools are used to compare reforms in Russia and...
Measuring regional public health provision
Article / Working Paper, Europe and CIS, Public Administration, Academic/Think TankThis paper using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) evaluates the performance of public health services of the Greek prefectures. The efficiency levels of the Greek prefectures are compared and analyzed in a regional context. With the use of bootstrap techniques and conditional full frontier applications the paper shows that higher levels of GDP per capita and population density increase the...
Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance in the Public Sector in Switzerland
Article / Working Paper, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Political Parties, Public Administration, Other UN AgencyThe paper begins with a description of the ethnic structures and cleavages in Switzerland and their development. It then provides an overview of the Swiss political system and its institutional elements of political integration. Finally, the scope and limits of these arrangements are discussed through an analysis of their effects on minority representation and equality. Switzerland is one of...
The growth of public health expenditures in OECD countries: do government ideology and electoral motives matter?
Article / Working Paper, Europe and CIS, Political Parties, Public Administration, Academic/Think TankThis paper empirically evaluates whether government ideology and electoral motives influenced the growth of public health expenditures in 18 OECD countries over the 1971-2004 period. The results suggest that incumbents behaved opportunistically and increased the growth of public health expenditures in election...
Using HiTs to Assess Health Care Systems and Reforms in Georgia
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Public Administration, Academic/Think TankThe assessment of the Georgian health care system was commissioned by the European Observatory for Health Systems and Policies (EOHSP) in 2007. The publication ‘Health Systems in Transition (HiT) Georgia’ was finalised in 2009 and published in April 2010. The HiT methodology and template has been used to assess key features of the Georgian health care system and recent...
Monitoring, Evaluation and Performance Indicators for the Greek State Audit and Control Mechanisms
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Europe and CIS, Public Administration, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyThe goal of this study is to introduce the methods for monitoring and evaluation, for the Audit and Control Mechanisms within the Hellenic Public Administration space, through the application of performance indicators. First, the study describes and analyses the framework within which qualitative and quantitative indicators will be used. It then goes on to present the performance indicators...