Search results for "centralization"

Internal coordination of social security in Italy

2019

This contribution deals with the internal coordination of health care, long-term social care and social assistance schemes – covered by EU regulation no. 883/2004 – in Italy after the constitutional reform enacted in 2001, which significantly decentralised legislative and administrative machinery by strengthening the prerogatives of the Regions, especially in terms of organisation and funding of the services. This article seeks to demonstrate that, although the decentralisation of health care and long-term social care has been accompanied by mechanisms of internal coordination among the Regions (particularly in the field of inter-regional mobility), regional social assistance schemes provi…

LITI TRA PUBBLICHE AMMINISTRAZIONI E VICENDE DELLA GIUSTIZIA AMMINISTRATIVA NEL SECOLO DECIMONONO

2019

Il presente studio mette in discussione la diffusa idea che nello Stato liberale e nella giuspubblicistica dell’epoca vi fosse una visione statalista e monista dell’interesse pubblico, dando prova dell’ampio contenzioso esisten- te tra pubbliche amministrazioni e persino tra organi, nel solco dei rimedi della giustizia amministrativa, e del deciso favore della prevalente dottrina giuspubblicistica per il decentramento amministrativo. The present study, focusing on developments of administrative justice, aims to demonstrate that already during the nineteenth century there was a rich case-law on disputes between administrative bodies or organs. It also emphasized that the prevailing legal sch…

Aggregazione e centralizzazione della domanda pubblica di beni: stato dell'arte e proposte di migliorie al sistema vigente

2018

Il saggio esamina e discute le problematiche legate al sistema centralizzato degli acquisti nell’ambito degli appalti pubblici. Un tale sistema si basa su una pluralità di centrali di committenza e soggetti aggregatori operanti sia a livello statale sia locale. Attraverso un’analisi del quadro normativo vigente viene evidenziato come questo pluralismo accentuato metta a repentaglio il raggiungimento degli obiettivi che il sistema persegue, in primo luogo la revisione della spesa. Muovendo da tale profilo problematico il saggio propone alcune modifiche alla normativa mirate a rendere il sistema più razionale ed efficiente. Aggregation and centralization of the purchase of goods and services:…

Determinants of Blockchain Technology Introduction in Organizations: an Empirical Study among Experienced Practitioners

2021

Abstract Blockchain is expected to enable new types of interorganizational relationships, new approaches to governance and new approaches to settlement and clearing processes. Neverthless, although the interest on blockchain is on the rise, there are not many blockchain implementations in organizations and there is limited empirical research investigating the reasons for this. This paper contributes to filling this gap by investigating the following research question: what are the impeding and motivating factors for organizational blockchain adoption? Data were collected through a survey based on pairwise comparisons of key factors identified in the literature. The data collected were analy…

Retuning the Nordic Welfare Municipality: Central Regulation of Social Care under Change in Finland

2011

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the changes that have taken place in the central regulation of social care in Finland since the 1970s. The changes in vertical central‐local relations are discussed in the context of economic and welfare state development.Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a case study, applying the concept of “the Nordic welfare municipality” to the case of Finland. With this concept, the author refers to the inherently contradictory character of the Nordic model of welfare governance: to a system that emphasises local self‐government but that, at the same time, perceives regional harmonisation as imperative.Findings – After strong central control d…

The transformation of the Russian defence industry

1995

TRADITIONALLY, THE DEFENCE INDUSTRY constituted the most powerful industrial lobby in the USSR, with an administrative structure at all the organisational levels where its interests could be affected. With a hierarchical and pyramidal structure, the different entities of the sector remained isolated from strictly civilian bodies. The strategic part it played within the organisation of the Soviet Union enabled the defence industry to manage a growing and important volume of resources; on the one hand, it had a special supply system which guaranteed regular high-quality provision of the most advanced technology in the country, as well as highly qualified human resources. On the other hand, th…

Reference schemes for e-government strategies. The analysis of the case regional government of valencia

2004

E-Government seems to be a fashionable topic and many interests have appeared around it, in particular since 1999. ICT industries, consultancy companies, supranational organizations and even research community are developing important activities with a clear consequence, among others, of increasing the self-convincement level about the importance of the topics. We analyze the experience on e-Government of the Region of Valencia in Spain, its boundary conditions, it background, its main achievement and frustrations, the next steps, the future plans in its, already, long road toward the modernization of its activities using the Information and Communication Technologies. In order to clarify o…

Production of Cultural Policy in Russia: Authority and Intellectual Leadership

2020

The paper discusses different frameworks of knowledge production within the discourses and practices of Russian cultural policy. Russian cultural policy as an administrative sector has been developed in line with two distinctive governmental regimes, more precisely during the period of liberal decentralisation of the 1990s and the conservative centralisation from 2011 up until today. The study focuses on the main changes that have occurred in the framework of policy design and participation in policy-making. An attempt is made to combine Foucauldian analytical frameworks of power and discourse with a Gramscian hegemonic approach to political studies that was mainly advocated by the Essex sc…

2017

Centralization and decentralization are key concepts in debates that focus on the (anti)democratic character of digital societies. Centralization is understood as the control over communication and data flows, and decentralization as giving it (back) to users. Communication and media research focuses on centralization put forward by dominant digital media platforms, such as Facebook and Google, and governments. Decentralization is investigated regarding its potential in civil society, i.e., hacktivism, (encryption) technologies, and grass-root technology movements. As content-based media companies increasingly engage with technology, they move into the focus of critical media studies. Moreo…

Hospital decentralisation in Romania: stakeholders' perspectives in the newsprint media

2013

In the summer of 2010, Romania undertook a process of hospital decentralisation as part of the reform in the healthcare sector. The national newsprint media covered the process thoroughly. This paper is a study of how key stakeholders' views, attitudes, beliefs and attitudes towards decentralisation are represented in print media. 106 articles, published between June and September 2010, retrieved from the online databases of six leading national dailies were analysed. A mixed methodology was used in the data analysis stage. The qualitative data exploration identified five voices belonging to stakeholders involved directly or indirectly in the process: the representatives of central governme…