Governance and public administration in China

Governance of Shared Services in Public Administration

Services are more and more shared among public agencies to gain efficiency benefits. The governance of shared services is a complicated endeavor as it often involves multiple agencies having different objectives and resources, the number of shared services used varies among agencies, technology sophistication differs and non-shared resources of public agencies are interwoven with shared service...

Governance Reforms in Public Administration and Good Governance Applications in Sports Administration

From the beginning of 1980s on, a transformation period that has affected almost all of the public administrations in the world and made a radical innovation on the basis of traditional public administrations, new expectations in the public transportations have come up especially with triggering of global dynamics. Because deficiency of constant slowing down bureaucratic structure of traditiona...

ICT Spending and Governance in Brazilian Public Administration

This paper reports on an exploratory study based on publicly available accounts of ICT expenditures of the Secretaries of the State of São Paulo, Brazil and relates these data to their stages of ICT development and governance. E-Government has been a priority for Administrations, with expectations of gains in services to citizens and performance of government processes as strong drivers for sig...

Innovations in Governance and Public Administration: Replicating What Works

Searching for Innovations in Governance and Public Administration

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