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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.
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.
This book presents comparative analyses and accounts of the
institutional changes that have occurred to the local level
delivery of public utilities and personal social services in
countries across Europe. Guided by a common conceptual frame and
written by leading country experts, the book pursues a
"developmental" approach to consider how the public/municipal
sector-centred institutionalization of service delivery (climaxing
in the 1970s) developed through its New Public Management-inspired
and European Union market liberalization-driven restructuring of
the 1980s and early 1990s. The book also discusses the most recent
phase since the late 1990s, which has been marked by further
marketization and privatization of service delivery on the one
hand, and some return to public sector provision
("remunicipalization") on the other. By comprising some 20 European
countries, including Central East European "transformation"
countries as well as the "sovereign debt"-stricken countries of
Southern Europe, the chapters of this volume cover a much broader
cross section of countries than other recent publications on the
same subject.
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