Evaluating Reforms of Local Public and Social Services in Europe: More Evidence for Better Results 1st Edition

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• ISBN 10:3319610910
• ISBN 13: 9783319610917
• Author : Ivan Koprić , Hellmut Wollmann , Gérard Marcou 

This book explains the increasing demand for evaluation as a result of the increasing frequency of reforms to local services, influenced by the New Public Management doctrine, the severe austerity policy in many European countries, and the wish to increase quality and reduce costs of public services, especially at the local (sub-national) level. Positioned at the interface of local services and evaluation research, it will enable the utilization of evaluation-generated knowledge in evidence-based policy making by focusing on the lessons learned from evaluation of local service delivery. It encompasses local public and social services (including waste, water, public transport, healthcare, education and eldercare) and examines the hypothesis that there is a North-West–South-East divide in Europe in terms of the evaluation of local service reforms. Particular attention is devoted to the explanatory function of evaluation. Providing fresh insight into the functioning of local government machinery in contemporary Europe, this book will appeal in particular to practitioners and students of local government, public economy, public administration and policy.

Table contents:

Evaluating Reforms of Local Public and Social Services in Europe

Regulatory Impact Assessment and Sub-national Governments

Less Plato and More Aristotle: Empirical Evaluation of Public Policies in Local Services

The Politics of Evaluation in Performance Management Regimes in English Local Government

Evaluating Personal Social Services in Germany

Healthcare Marketisation in Spain: The Case of Madrid’s Hospitals

The Institutionalisation of Performance Scrutiny Regimes and Beyond: The Case of Education and Elderly Care in Sweden

The Organisation of Local Education in Poland: An Evaluative Approach to the Outsourcing Model

Reforming Local Service Delivery by Contracting Out? Evaluating the Experience of Danish Road and Park Services

The Efficiency of Local Service Delivery: The Czech Republic and Slovakia

Effects of External Agentification in Local Government: A European Comparison of Municipal Waste Management

The Emergence of Performance Evaluation of Water Services in France

Evaluation of Delivery Mechanisms in the Water Supply Industry—Evidence from Slovenia

Apprentice Sorcerers. Evaluating the Programme Theory of Regulatory Governance in Italian Public Utilities

Evaluation of the Decentralisation Programme in Croatia: Expectations, Problems and Results

Evaluating the Impact of Decentralisation on Local Public Management Modernisation in Croatia

Evaluation of an Anti-Monopoly Programme in Hungarian Public Utilities

Metropolitan Municipality Reform: Rescaling of Municipal Service Delivery in Turkey

Policy Evaluation Capacity in Greek Local Government: Formal Implementation and Substantial Failures

Lessons Learned from Successful and Unsuccessful Local Public and Social Service Delivery Reforms

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