The distribution of public participation in Western political environments has become an important topic in recent years. Low participation rates combined with low levels of trust toward government officials has resulted in low efficiency of public participation projects. Whereas prior research...

Digitally Enabled Service Transformation (DEST) in the Public Sector (PS) offers a unique opportunity for public administration (PA) and information systems (IS) disciplines to interlace. Albeit complicating the deployment of a coherent analytical lens in its study, such uniqueness has formed a...

Offering full information and efficient public services is a permanent challenge for cities concerned with citizens' quality of life and effective municipal management. The objective of this study is to describe and assess the digital city projects in Chicago (USA) and Curitiba (Brazil), using...

This article describes how while confronted with digitization, governments need to equip their employees with skills for dealing with the upcoming technologies. To date, however, there has been no thorough analysis of which skills governments actually require and how these skills are addressed...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the development of public sector real estate asset management in the UK from the 1980s to the present day. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a narrative based upon a chronology of a selection of the reports, studies and research of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the challenges faced by local government in Indonesia when adopting a public asset management framework. Design/methodology/approach – A case study within the South Sulawesi provincial government was used as the approach to achieve the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that general‐ and special‐purpose properties have to be dealt with differently by the public sector. Design/methodology/approach – Application of standard economic theory concerning pricing of properties and infrastructure. The issues are...

Purpose The study aims to identify and evaluate relevant criteria in the proposal and support of public administration policies for preventive maintenance comprised in a conservation approach to built heritage and aligned with local sustainable development of the historic center of the city of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed new light on the debate about the appropriateness of the Kaizuka rule, a Samuelson type of efficiency rule for public inputs, for the provision of firm‐augmenting public inputs. Firm‐augmenting public inputs are commonly included in public...

Provides a discussion of the spontaneous order approach to the making of the future European constitution. We thus investigate the normative content of collective decisions in the Scottish Enlightenment tradition. Conditions of rightness depend on very strong assumptions. They shape a system of...