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Turkish Local e-Governments: A Longitudinal Study
Arab States, Article / Working Paper, E-Governance, Europe and CIS, Academic/Think TankThis article is based on a longitudinal exploratory study of the Turkish local e-governments between September 2005 and December 2006. 3,228 Turkish local governments constitute the sampling framework of this paper. The first part of the study, which took place in 2005, indicated that only 969 authorities were online. But the second part, issued at the end of 2006, showed that...
Foreign Direct Investment and Civil Rights: Testing Decreasing Returns to Civil Rights
Article / Working Paper, Democracy, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Justice, Latin America and the Carribean, Academic/Think TankIn this paper, the effectiveness of improvements in political and civil rights for attracting foreign direct investment flows (FDI) into democracies is examined. The author contends that advances in the quality of democracy – specifically those concerning civil rights – present positive but decreasing marginal returns in attracting FDI inflows. This is empirically proven by using...
Стратегии институциональных реформ: Китай и Россия (Institutional Reform Strategies: China and Russia)
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Justice, Public Administration, Academic/Think TankThis is the second part of the work devoted to the problem of the choice of institutional reform strategies. In the first part a concept of a promising trajectory was introduced. This is a trajectory that has good chances to be successful since it meets a number of requirements; their list was discussed in detail. In this paper, proposed analytical tools are used to compare reforms in Russia and...
The productivity of the public sector in OECD countries: eGovernment as driver of efficiency and efficacy
Article / Working Paper, E-Governance, Europe and CIS, Academic/Think TankThis article aims at illustrating a theoretical approach to the analysis of the dynamics of productivity in the public sector, and at presenting a preliminary application of it to the estimation of the impact on productivity of the recent development of e-Government processes in a number of OECD countries. The analysis serves a twofold purpose: at the microeconomic level, we set out to...
A trade-off Criterion for Evaluating Effectiveness and Reliability of Alternative Policy Actions
Article / Working Paper, Europe and CIS, Academic/Think TankThe evaluation of policy actions by means of macroeconomic models often begins with the analysis of multipliers. A rough analysis recommends to use those instruments that exhibit large multipliers. Government budget usually imposes some constraints on the policy action. Instead of the raw multiplier, a trade-off criterion could measure the effect of a variation of the instrument associated with...
A quantitative approach to the effects of social policy measures. An application to Portugal, using Social Accounting Matrices
Article / Working Paper, Europe and CIS, Academic/Think TankFrom the author’s point of view, the Social Accounting Matrices (SAM) is a powerful working instrument for socio- (macro)economic planning, since with its underlying methodology it is possible to arrive at perfectly harmonized models and databases that contemplate important aspects of the economic and social sides of the real world. Further research is planned to improve this part of the...
Measuring regional public health provision
Article / Working Paper, Europe and CIS, Public Administration, Academic/Think TankThis paper using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) evaluates the performance of public health services of the Greek prefectures. The efficiency levels of the Greek prefectures are compared and analyzed in a regional context. With the use of bootstrap techniques and conditional full frontier applications the paper shows that higher levels of GDP per capita and population density increase the...
The growth of public health expenditures in OECD countries: do government ideology and electoral motives matter?
Article / Working Paper, Europe and CIS, Political Parties, Public Administration, Academic/Think TankThis paper empirically evaluates whether government ideology and electoral motives influenced the growth of public health expenditures in 18 OECD countries over the 1971-2004 period. The results suggest that incumbents behaved opportunistically and increased the growth of public health expenditures in election...
Using HiTs to Assess Health Care Systems and Reforms in Georgia
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Public Administration, Academic/Think TankThe assessment of the Georgian health care system was commissioned by the European Observatory for Health Systems and Policies (EOHSP) in 2007. The publication ‘Health Systems in Transition (HiT) Georgia’ was finalised in 2009 and published in April 2010. The HiT methodology and template has been used to assess key features of the Georgian health care system and recent...
Monitoring, Evaluation and Performance Indicators for the Greek State Audit and Control Mechanisms
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Europe and CIS, Public Administration, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyThe goal of this study is to introduce the methods for monitoring and evaluation, for the Audit and Control Mechanisms within the Hellenic Public Administration space, through the application of performance indicators. First, the study describes and analyses the framework within which qualitative and quantitative indicators will be used. It then goes on to present the performance indicators...