This paper investigates the use of plural governance for the provision of local public services. Most of the studies conducted on local data compare direct public provision (i.e., in-house provision where governments produce public services themselves, using their own equipment and employees) to contracting out. But governments actually face a more...
Published in BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundEthical medical practice requires managing health services to promote professionalism and secure accessibility to care. Commercially financed and industrially managed services strain the physicians’ clinical autonomy and ethics because the industry’s profitability depends on commercial, clinical standardisation. Private insurance companie...
Cette communication s’intéresse à la place des villes petites et moyennes dans les réorganisations des services publics en France depuis la mise en place de la révision générale des politiques publiques (RGPP) en 2007. Partant du double constat, d’une part, que la décroissance urbaine paraît fortement toucher ces catégories de villes et, d’autre pa...
This article proposes a ten-step roadmap for delivering user-centric digital government, that puts co-creation at the core of government functioning. Four areas of intervention are discussed: 1. Prioritise adoption, including making user research a requirement for public services and using the public budget to stimulate co-creation; 2. Support impl...
While previous studies have examined lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) information needs, none have addressed librarian confidence in addressing LGBTQ-themed information needs, or the factors affecting this confidence. The authors used a mixed-methods survey to assess the knowledge and perspectives of academic librarians in res...
This paper analyzes and compares the explanatory powers of the two main theories describing the processes that lead left-wing governments to spend more than right-wing ones (1) a demand-driven process whereby voters demand more expenditures and thus vote for the left; (2) a supply-driven process whereby governments in office follow their preference...
In this paper, we analyze if the way in which the Federation grants resources to states in Mexico has an impact on income inequality, as measured by the Gini index. A model of artificial intelligence is used, which includes the following stylized facts: a) the criteria of efficiency and equity established in the Fiscal Coordination Law (LCF); b) th...
Cette thèse propose un examen empirique du programme de modernisation de l’État articulé en France, entre 2014 et 2017, autour du concept d’« État plateforme » et interroge l’intérêt étatique pour la modernité technologique des administrations — souvent qualifiée de numérique. Le cahier des charges confié aux modernisateurs de l’État était le suiva...
In spite of massive investment and increased adoption of digital services, citizens continue to use traditional channels to interact with public organizations. The channel choice (CC) field of research tries to understand citizens’ interactions with public authorities to make the interaction more efficient and increase citizen satisfaction. However...
Blockchain technology has the potential to provide public services directly to the public. This challenges the need for public organizations, who traditionally provided these services. Much of the current work is focused on the technology, whereas the influence on public administration structure has gained less attention. The goal of this paper is ...
