As public institutions are faced with more diverse and increased community needs, significant concern arises (both in academia and practice) for the dwindling resources available at the local level and the factors which can influence local revenue mobilization. Using data for 3,227 Romanian...

In our modern network world, ICT acts as a connecting and integratingmechanism. Information (data, knowledge)has become a core constellation in an open economy. The avalanche ofinformation supply however, has not keptpace with the use of information by decision-making bodies.Especially in the...

Transparency of public management is fundamental to bringing citizens closer to public managers and as such universally considered an element of good governance. The main aim of this study is to identify the factors determining transparency in public management of Portuguese local authorities....

This paper describes the effect of customer oriented service (COS) on cost effectiveness of local authorities. Although a plethora of evidence had been unearthed regarding the usefulness of COS, particularly in achieving customer satisfaction, the effect of COS on cost effectiveness is...

Germany and France offer two different models of political and administrative organisation: a federal state on one side of the Rhine and a unitary state on the other, albeit one that has become more decentralised over the last 40 years. Thus, the French régions have reduced capacities for...

L'Allemagne et la France se caractérisent par deux modèles différents d'organisation politique et administrative: un État fédéral d'un côté du Rhin et un État unitaire de l'autre, bien qu'il se soit décentralisé au cours des quarante dernières années. Ainsi, les régions françaises...

Als Bundesstaat auf der einen Seite des Rheins und als Einheitsstaat auf der anderen Seite, der jedoch in den letzten 40 Jahren stärker dezentralisiert wurde, bieten Deutschland und Frankreich zwei unterschiedliche Modelle der politischen und administrativen Organisation. So haben die...