FSS Seminar Series (UM Distinguished Visiting Scholar):”Five Decades of Reforms for Local Public Services Delivery in the West” by Prof. Germà BEL on 17/05/2024 (Fri); 11:00-12:30; E21A-G035
社會科學學院講座 (澳大傑出訪問學者)：Germà BEL 教授@ 17/05/2024; 11:00-12:30; E21A-G035
Dear all
You are cordially invited to join the following FSS guest lecture. Thanks!
Details are as follows:
| Date: | 17/05/2024 |
| Time: | 11:00-12:30 |
| Venue: | E21A-G035 |
| Topic: | Five Decades of Reforms for Local Public Services Delivery in the West |
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Presenter: |
Prof. Germà BEL, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Barcelona, Spain
Germà Bel, Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Director of the Observatory of Public Policies Analysis and Evaluation at the University of Barcelona, Spain, is an editor of Local Government Studies. With a regional focus on Europe, Prof. Bel has academic interests in a wide range of public policy topics, including public sector reform, privatization & regulation, infrastructure and transportation, local public services, and environmental policy. He has published numerous articles in top academic journals in the related fields. Apart from his academic career, Prof. Bel served as advisor to the Spanish Ministers of Public Affairs and of Public Works and Transportation between 1990 and 1993 and was a member of the Spanish Parliament (2000-2004) and member of the Catalan Parliament (2015-2017). |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | In the last decades of the past century, growing criticism of the effects of government intervention in the economy led to a decline in the governments’ role in the production of goods and services largely in the West. In the domain of local governments and the delivery of public services, a wave of privatization was the main tool for reform, often through the contracting out the public service delivery. Since the results of privatization were much more modest than expected, in the first decades of this century other types of reforms have intensified. On the one hand, in terms of the provider jurisdiction (amalgamation and inter-municipal cooperation); on the other, regarding the organization of production (corporatization and remunicipalization). After five decades of local government reform, a hybridization of the local service-machine is the most common approach to public service delivery. |
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