There are three potential levels of governmental activity in health: regulation, finance and service provision. Regulatory functions include decisions on the rules of system configuration and the definition of roles for the public and private sector. Finance functions determine the extent of universal health coverage using public funds. The government may also be involved in direct provision of...

Recent policy debates on the reform of social service delivery systems focus on the decentralization of services and the introduction of competition in order to improve the quality of services. Despite the common assumption that public sector unions oppose these reforms, their responses were diverse. This variation has an important impact on the passage and the final design of the reforms. This...

The typical post-Bretton-Woods era development approach that put much emphasis on central government-led development efforts has changed dramatically, and local governments have now clearly emerged as players in development policy. Now, the thinking about what is important to achieve development objectives is changing and fiscal decentralization reforms are now being pursued by many countries a...

The shift towards decentralization in power generation raises the need for a largescale control infrastructure to support a high number of distributed power generators. Peer-topeer computing provides self-organizing, Internet-scale infrastructures being resilient to node failure, which makes peer-to-peer seem a natural basis for a large-scale control application. However, raw peer-to-peer overl...

Recent policy debates on the reform of social service delivery systems focus on the decentralization of services and the introduction of competition in order to improve the quality of services. Despite the common assumption that public sector unions oppose these reforms, their responses were diverse. This variation has an important impact on the passage and the final design of the reforms. This...

The service and business models of a Distributed Cloud solution based on peer-to-peer technology are presented in this article, in order to implement the proposed solution. Methods for organizing the interaction between the participants’ nodes and nodes that are non-participants in the Distributed Cloud are proposed. Passive replication is used to improve service reliability. A competitive anal...

The article analyses some specific issues of recent public administration development in Albania. Europeanization and transition are important circumstances for interplay between democratization, political stabilization and public administration reform. Key factors that influence public administration reform are identified and analyzed. There are several aspects of public administration that ar...