In 2013 the responsibility for school governance and funding has been transferred from local governments to a central government agency in Hungary. The key objectives of this reform, as stated by policy makers, was to mitigate interjurisdictional inequalities in education. This paper explores...

The paper examines developments that led to the termination of California’s major state-run international trade programs managed by the now defunct Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency and provides perspectives on future policy options. Study findings indicate that what the academic...

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) involve the collaboration between the public sector providers of goods and, more specifically, services and private sector counterparts. The arrangement is one component of a wider initiative which has been taken place across both developing and developed...

Public–private partnerships involve organisations from the public and private sectors working together to provide public services. This introductory issue of the International Journal of Public Policy comprises two papers that consider PPP at the theoretical level, and seven papers that...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the three key ideas for an agenda for the public sector that are emerging as dominant ideas in the 2010’s in the literature on public organizations. The paper examines a select number of self-styled conceptual alternatives from the literature on public...

In this paper, I offer an ethnographic approach of the involvement of public services user in the shaping of public management reform. Drawing on a two years fieldwork in a French organization dedicated to the definition of administrative simplification reforms, I argue that this emerging set of...

Nowadays, public-private partnerships (PPPs) have resulted into a world-wide instrument for governments facing insufficient resources for growing public investment needs. Despite the general interest surrounding the cooperation between public bodies and private companies, the tendency of...