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Federalism and Polycentric Government in a Pandemic
Perez, Victoria - 2020
Networks of overlapping local governments are the front line of governmental responses to pandemics. Local governments, both general purpose (municipalities, counties, etc.) and special districts (school, fire, police, hospital, etc.), implement state and federal directives while acting as a...
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Federalism and innovation support for small and medium-sized enterprises : empirical evidence in Europe
Becker, Lasse; Bizer, Kilian - 2015
Private innovative activities receive public innovation support from different political levels. Few studies have empirically evaluated the influence of political systems on the reception of public innovation support and no other studies have evaluated innovation support across Europe with CIS...
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On the determinants of fiscal decentralization : evidence from the EU
Delgado, Francisco J. - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 23 (2021) 56, pp. 206-220
We empirically analyze the determinants of the fiscal decentralization in the European Union. Our approach consists on … on the fiscal decentralization by quantiles. Specifically, while GDP per capita or corruption are not significant in a … decentralization. And other variables as population, density or inequality do not have neither the same impact among quantiles …
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Incentives to Local Public Service Provision : An Evaluation of Italy's Obiettivi di Servizio
Barone, Guglielmo - 2017
Set up by the Italian central government and implemented in the areas of the country that are lagging behind, Obiettivi di Servizio is an innovative scheme designed to encourage local authorities to reach given targets for public service provision in the areas of education, childcare and elderly...
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Public services and liveability in European cities in comparison
Holzner, Mario; Römisch, Roman - 2021
A high level of public services in housing, transport, education and health care is essential for liveability in urban centres, as shown in this report, with the help of European data for large cities. Inhabitants of larger cities, where the housing market is heavily commercialised in terms of...
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The Quality of Public Services in Italy
Bripi, Francesco - 2011
This paper provides a survey of a number of studies conducted in recent years, above all at the Bank of Italy, aiming at assessing the quality and the efficiency of public services in Italy. We consider services provided by the central government (education and civil justice), regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125807
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The open method of coordination (OMC) as an evolutionary learning process
Ania, Ana B.; Wagener, Andreas - 2009
We interpret the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), recently adopted by the EU as a mode of governance in the area of social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The best-practise feature and the iterative design of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824711
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The open method of coordination (OMC) as an evolutionary learning process
Ania, Ana B.; Wagener, Andreas - 2009
We interpret the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), recently adopted by the EU as a mode of governance in the area of social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The best-practise feature and the iterative design of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951782
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The open method of coordination (OMC) as an evolutionary learning process
Ania, Ana B.; Wagener, Andreas - 2009
We interpret the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), recently adopted by the EU as a mode of governance in the area of social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The best-practise feature and the iterative design of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846054
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The roles of state aid and local conditions in elementary school test-score gaps
Bradbury, Katharine L. - 2021 - This version: November 2020
Equal educational opportunity is a core American value. Yet many children of low-income or minority racial or ethnic status attend public schools that are lower quality compared with those that white children or high-income children attend. And data indicate that, on average, low-income or...
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