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Contrary to popular belief which sees the government as reactive and resistant to change, the increasing emergence of innovative ideas particularly in the field of local services yielded a wide range of interactions. This was due to address new policy challenges, improve productivity, better...
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implement policies, strategies, programs and projects, using the market-type mechanisms, so that the institutions of the state … NPM and its mechanisms (the “state-of-the-art” of the “art of the state”). The second section suggests a theoretical …
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The paper approaches a topic of high actuality concerning the professionalisation of public management, process that could lead to setting up a corps of civil servants, substantiated on meritocratic criteria, political equidistance. In the context of knowledge-based society, the paper presents...
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The paper reviews the theoretical underpinnings of the debate on the superiority of the public or private sector, and supports theoretical perspectives with help from empirical literature on the subject. The theoretical part covers issues relating to public choice, property rights and...
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This paper evaluates whether reforms associated with the New Public Management (NPM) doctrine led to a reduction in public sector expenditure and employees. Savings and downsizing the public sector were a major justification when the international movement of public sector reforms began in the...
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During the last decades, several countries worldwide have introduced financial management reforms as an important part of the New Public Management (NPM) initiative at one or more levels of government sector, by replacing or transforming their traditional budgetary cash accounting systems...
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The purpose of this article is to characterize the role of management control and its potential functions from the perspective of New Public Management with regard to Polish realities. The premise for undertaking the subject is the observation that the potential of this control in Poland has not...
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More often than not, the State did not acknowledge the matrimonial norms as settled by the Church. This relation seems … to have altered towards the end of the 19th century, when the State succeeded in imposing on the Church the respect for … the general civil framework. Yet, the change was not radical. The Church and the State were still pretty connected. The …
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significant – and frequently understated – state presence in the economy. Growth is also weakest in those countries, such as the … spending, and state investment of any shape or form. The paper shows that it is these economic policies that produce growth … the direct involvement of the national state in both human and industrial development. Any country can develop such …
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This paper was due to be presented to the 2013 conference of the World Association for Political Economy, in Florianopolis, Brasil. In the event, the author was unable to attend. The paper summarises the main conclusions of ten years of research into the Creative Industries in London and the UK,...
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