The study addresses the processes relating to the implementation of municipal reform in the republics of the North Caucasus and the Republic of Kalmykia. The authors analyze some formal parameters of implementing municipal reform: the rate of reforming, the territorial organization of local...

Present work contains municipal reform implmentation results for 2007. The authors analyzed modifications in the federal legislation regarding local selfgovernance, regional legislation which regulates issues relatyed to newly created settlements in transition period. The authors analyzed...

The diffusion of Public Agencies seems to characterise the approach to public management in European countries. Under New Public Management, the role of politics is to provide strategic planning and economic policy target defini-tion, whereas the administration is responsible for the management...

New Public Management calls for a clear division between politics and the administration, where the former undertakes strategic planning and defines economic targets and the latter is responsible for public service management. In this context, the agency theory underlines a risk of incoherence...

Since 1932, when Justice Louis Brandeis remarked that in a federal system states can serve as "laboratories" of democracy, political decentralization has been thought to stimulate policy experimentation. We reexamine the political economy behind this belief, using a simple model of voting in...

Public administration reform as a response to the requirements of socio-economic environment change, is a process that develops both at central and local level, aiming to an institutional framework achievement, suitable for administrative and financial decentralization, under the European Union...

RESUMENEn las sociedades democráticas, el sector público es un agente creado por los individuos para proveer colectivamente los bienes y servicios que el mercado es incapaz de suministrar de forma eficiente y equitativa. Sin embargo, la crisis económica que afloró en las potencias...

El artículo pretende demostrar, a través de la revisión de tres estudios de caso, que los gobiernos locales de Latinoamérica vienen desarrollando interesantes programas de innovación y que éstos se sustentan en el modelo de Nueva Gerencia Pública (NGP). Para lograr ese objetivo, se...

The paper deals with issues of organization of local self/governance in the intraurban areas of the cities of federal significance and considers existing theoretical approaches to development of large urban areas and their governance, an international experience of organization of governance in...

Birleşik Krallık'ta Mayıs 2010 genel seçimleri ile iktidara gelen koalisyon hükümetinin ilk icraatı mali krizi aşabilmek için kamu harcamalarında önemli oranda kesintiye gideceğini açıklamak oldu. Zira, Birleşik Krallık, bir taraftan hızla artmakta olan kamu borçları ile...