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From Rhetoric to Practice: The Case of Spanish Local Government Reforms
2013
This paper aims to explore what performance management tools are implemented in practice in Spanish local governments and whether they have led to an improvement in public management and accountability. We also analyse the usefulness of performance reporting, comparing it with that of accrual financial reporting. The results show that most of the entities that have introduced performance indicators do not use them for decision-making or accountability. After two decades of reforms in financial and management systems, financial directors still consider that budgetary reporting is the most useful, basically because the control of expenditure is still based on the budget.
Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment: Pleasure, Reflection and Accountability
2019
Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment is a stimulating collection of essays that seeks to emphasize and explicate the socially situated nature of aesthetic-moral judgment. The socially accentuated a...
Directly Elected Mayors vs. Council Appointed Mayors – Which Effects on Local Government Systems?
2016
This chapter compares the Italian and the Spanish case discussing the influence of having elected or appointed mayors on local government systems. Five elements of the local government systems are compared: the electoral system and its influences on the political composition of the local government; the local government structure and the distribution of functions and powers between Mayor and council; the role of political parties; scrutiny of executive and accountability; citizen participation. Our comparative analysis highlights that overall directly elected mayors have ensured better efficiency in terms of quicker and faster decision making processes, even if mostly at the expenses of dem…
Problems and challenges for the Politics of Education before the change of prominence experienced by educational actors
2013
This paper deals with some of the problems that the Politics of Education has to face both as a subject and as a government action. Based above all on the literature appeared in specialized journals during the last five years, our attention is firstly focused on the concern for using an active methodology in the teaching of this subject which places students at the center of the teaching-learning process with the aim of encouraging their interest in its contents and inducing them to acquire civic competences. Secondly, the new but already deeply-rooted neoliberal conception of education is used to describe some of its policies, such as accountability, assessment and free choice of school. O…
University Management with Focus on Multicriteria Performance Evaluation: Illustration in the Brazilian Context
2015
Public universities have been facing situations that impel them to improvements in its management towards excellence in reaching, with quality, the objectives for which they were constituted, i.e., to offer teaching, research and extension. In this context, it is up to the managers of the universities to act proactively. The literature points out that the internal control systems are managerial tools capable of providing information for the manager’s actions in his/her activity; however we notice that the academic literature devoted to this demand is still scarce, especially as regards support for decision-making considering organizational specificities. Given the importance of the manager'…
The Design and Execution of Performance Management Systems at State Level: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Malaysia
2016
ABSTRACTThis comparative study analyses the experience of Italy and Malaysia in the design and execution of performance management systems at the state level. The article investigates how performance management systems have changed over the past decades, the motivations behind their metamorphoses, their common elements across the two countries, and what accounts for the respective progress. It also investigates the role that the institutional framework plays in making performance management systems robust. The study presents policy recommendations on how governments can create more robust performance management systems for enhanced accountability and transparency in an age of resource const…
Services for Young Children and Families: Evaluating Intervention Cycles
1996
To advance the national early intervention agenda, priority must be assigned to the evaluation of services for families of infants and young children with developmental disabilities. This priority for evaluation rests on current considerations for accountability to families, accountability to fundin
Doctoral education reform in Finland : institutionalized and individualized doctoral studies within European framework
2017
In Europe, doctoral education systems have been systematically reformed. These reforms are aimed at improving the quality of research and the competitiveness of European countries. In Finland, the reform project of doctoral education started vigorously in the mid-1990s which has contributed significantly to the emergence of more structured doctoral training. The starting point for this article was a recent national follow-up evaluation of doctoral education in Finland. The results are based on qualitative analysis of a survey and interview data collected in the evaluation. The results showed that Finnish universities are launching the university-wide graduate school model. Each university i…
Balancing seclusion and inclusion: EU trilogues and democratic accountability
2020
This article assesses how trilogues affect the possibilities to hold the European Parliament to account from the perspectives of democracy as political equality and democracy as epistemic quality. ...
Implementing Performance Reporting in Local Government: A Cross-Countries Comparison
2016
ABSTRACTProviding information on economy, efficiency, and effectiveness is one of the most important innovations in local government management, with performance reporting emerging as a new component for accountability and decision-making. This article compares 17 countries to ascertain whether there is convergence between them, studying key issues in the implementation of performance reporting by local governments. It also identifies some lessons that can be of use to countries that want to implement or improve performance reporting systems. Findings show that there is no convergence in practice or results, and that institutional factors influence the implementation of performance reportin…