Regional Governance in Unitary States: Lessons from the Netherlands in Comparative Perspective

Hulst, J.R.

doi:10.1080/0300393042000332882

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“…Examples of the latter include nations, such as Belgium and the Netherlands (Toonen, 1987;Hulst, 2005). As transition to a decentralised unitary state often incorporates economic decentralisation, this implies a shift of functions from the public sector to the private sector due to privatisation and deregulation (Toonen, 1987;Hulst, 2005).…”

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Legal and regulatory barriers to effective public-private partnership governance in Kazakhstan

Mouraviev

Kakabadse

2015

International Journal of Public Sector Management

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical assessment of legal and regulatory impediments to effective governance of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in Kazakhstan. Design/methodology/approach – The qualitative study develops propositions from the PPP literature and then tests them against findings from in-depth interviews. Interviewees have been selected by a purposeful sampling from PPP projects in Kazakhstan as well as from national and regional PPP centres. Findings – The identified barriers to effective PPP management include irregularities in the PPP legal framework, such as lack of legal definition of a PPP and controversy with the government guarantee’s legal status for its long-term payments to partnerships; bureaucratic tariff setting for partnership services; non-existent opportunity for private asset ownership; and excessive government regulation of PPP workers’ wage rates. Practical implications – The partners’ opposing perspectives on a number of PPP issues show that management needs to identify and carefully reconcile stakeholder values in a partnership in order to achieve more effective PPP governance. Practitioners, particularly those in the public agencies, have to be concerned with ways to reduce the government overregulation of the private operators, which is likely to result in greater PPP flexibility in management and, ultimately, higher efficiency in delivering the public services. Originality/value – By elucidating multiple examples of overregulation and PPPs’ inefficiency, the paper demonstrates that the government dominance in PPP management is conceptually inappropriate. Instead, the government should adopt the concept of co-production and manage its relations with the private sector partner in a collaborative fashion.

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Legal and regulatory barriers to effective public-private partnership governance in Kazakhstan

Mouraviev

Kakabadse

2015

International Journal of Public Sector Management

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“…The province level never was very important in terms of policy and most decisions are made on the national level. However, the municipal level also matters: the decentralization of some national competences has mainly benefited the municipal level and not the provincial level (Hulst, 2005). All municipal governments are up for election every 4 years, and are elected on the same day.…”

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First-order, second-order or third-rate? A comparison of turnout in European, local and national elections in the Netherlands

Lefevere

Aelst

2014

Electoral Studies

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“…In France local government was free to opt for single-purpose (SIVU) or multi-purpose organizations (SIVOM); single-purpose organizations for a long time dominated the picture. The same communes generally participate in a number of single-purpose organizations at the time, which frequently organize different groups of communes and thus operate on different territorial scales (Hulst 2005). In the Netherlands the 1500 single-purpose arrangements that were created between 1950 and 1985 covered more than 30 different services and showed substantial variation in composition and scale (Hulst 2000: 10).…”

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Institutional Shifts In Inter-Municipal Service Delivery

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Montfort²,

Haveri

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Comparative research on inter-municipal cooperation in eight European countries shows that there is a great variety of institutional arrangements for cooperation across the different countries. Also, these arrangements tend to change over time in terms of the scope of cooperation among partners, their composition and the degree of organizational integration. This article describes and analyzes the variety of and shifts in institutional arrangements for a specific class of inter-municipal cooperation arrangements: those that are set up to provide for the joint delivery of public services. It is argued that specific arrangements are typically the outcomes of interaction between national institutional contexts,environmental factors and local preferences.

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Regional Governance in Unitary States: Lessons from the Netherlands in Comparative Perspective

Cited by 20 publications

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Legal and regulatory barriers to effective public-private partnership governance in Kazakhstan

Legal and regulatory barriers to effective public-private partnership governance in Kazakhstan

First-order, second-order or third-rate? A comparison of turnout in European, local and national elections in the Netherlands

Institutional Shifts In Inter-Municipal Service Delivery

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