Resources for service provision: policies and politics

Politics or policies vs politics and policies: a comment on Lundberg.

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Semi-Automatic Service Provision Based on Interaction of Data Warehouses for Evaluation of Water Resources

Our research is devoted to development of information infrastructure for e-service semiautomatic provision by using distributed data warehouses (DWs) of water protection domain. Development of software for semi-automatic service provision is based on artificial planner and structure of goals adapted for specialized needs of end users. Such e-service preparation mechanism can work under the unif...

Decentralized Service Delivery in Nairobi and Mombasa Policies, politics and inter-governmental relations

In many African countries, decentralization has long been viewed as a means for improving local service delivery. Yet, despite various decentralization initiatives, poor service delivery continues to be problematic in two of Kenya’s largest cities, Nairobi and Mombasa. Despite various governance reforms to enhance Kenya’s decentralization process, backed up by constitutional provisions and legi...

Politics, Policies, and Poverty in Latin America

Explorer Policies , politics and organizational problems

Kingdon's multiple streams approach has recently been applied to study implementation across sectors or levels of government. Building on these contributions, we suggest that two streams are especially important in shaping implementation: organizational problem constructions, and political pressure from the centre. These variables produce a four-way typology of implementation modes. We test the...