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Discusses the challenges to the central English state concerning the delivery of public goods & services. The shift from neoliberalism to New Labour is recounted, with attention to problems of the top-down & bottom-up approaches & limits of public service reform. Current efforts to improve public services include reformed centralism, a new localism, & personalization, & the state's overall objective should be to influence its citizenry for responsible self-regulation & increase in the public good. L. Collins Leigh

A public good is not simply a good provided by the public sector, or government.

it is a truism to say democracy relies on a free press. But in a sea of misinformation that is because it's a fact.

Introduction One of the most powerful ideas that legal theory borrows from economics is the idea of a "public good." Sooner or later law students learn that within the framework of contemporary neoclassical economics, the standard line is that public...

New research on how the growth of government may affect public health, even if only indirectly.

This article examines the negotiation phase on two levels: First, it assesses domestic organising, the processes of adopting a negotiating position and the relevant actors involved. By a comparative analysis of the experiences from Estonia, Slovenia and Hungary, "best management" practises will be condensed. These are subsequently applied to Croatian negotiation management in order to identify potential problems. In a second step, the findings will be put into the wider context of the political consequences of the negotiation strategy, providing recommendations for alternative modes of domestic organising. It will be argued that the Croatian negotiation structure is streamlined in order to match ambitions to complete negotiations in a very short time. However, this institutional set-up concentrates one-dimensionally on executive expertise and reinforces problems in domestic representation and legitimisation. It therefore fails to accommodate to new strategic developments like enlargement-fatigue in the European Union and "euro-fatigue" in Croatia.

Das Management der menschlichen Entwicklung und der Kulturwandel werden als eine bedeutsame Richtung der Förderung der öffentlichen Verwaltung in den Entwicklungsländern dargestellt. Dabei wird eine Entwicklung intendiert, die den Einzelnen in einen politisch engagierten Bürgers mit entsprechenden Wahrnehmungs-, Orientierungs- und Handlungsmustern verwandelt. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden die dauerhafte Notsituation als bürokratischer Kontext und der Zusammenhang zwischen kultureller Kompetenz und Förderung der Handlungsfähigkeit analysiert. Die allgemeinen Vorstellungen zur Entwicklung der Bürgerkultur werden durch den lateinamerikanischen Kontext relativiert. Dabei werden wirtschafts- und sozialstatistische sowie demographische Daten über die Region erläutert und die Herausforderungen durch die dauerhaften Notsituationen als ein wesentliches Merkmal der intendierten kulturellen Entwicklung präsentiert. (ICG). Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten.

Examines the theoretical reasoning & objectives of minimal statists. A core tenet is that the state has evolved as a powerful organism that appears to have an extensive will of its own. The role of a state to supply public goods in cases of market failure is discussed with attention to the perspective from minimal statists. Public spending in contemporary Western states is analyzed, particularly cases of health care, state pensions, & poverty relief, & viewpoints from minimal statists & Milton Friedman are posited. Minimal statists' ideal organization of the state & suggestions for constraining the state are summarized. L. Collins Leigh

In some countries, like Norway, your income tax forms are public information, so any one can look up what anyone else earns. In a US context, income is mostly considered to be private information, unless you are a public employee or an executive at a public company. Would it be a good thing to have … Continue reading Pay Transparency: What’s Good to Know?
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Gillian Tett, Financial Times, highlights research by Fuad Hasanov and Reda Cherif, IMF, advocating that encouraging exports rather than slapping tariffs on imports works best.
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A recent front in the culture wars is public libraries, such as in Front Royal, Virginia, where
a handful of residents ha[s] begun demanding the removal of certain books in the children's section of Warren County's only public library. Most of the titles involved LGBTQ+ themes.

In Libertarian Land, such conflicts do not arise, since public libraries do not exist.
Despite the word "public," libraries are not a "public good" that private markets might undersupply.
The textbook public good is national defense. If any private group mounts an army that stands ready to defend the country, others will free ride. This makes it hard for the provider to finance its efforts and therefore discourages private provision.
No such issue exists for books; private provision is bountiful. People cannot free ride on book purchases by others.
The crucial benefit of leaving "libraries" to the marketplace is that no one's tax dollars support the provision of particular books. If Amazon sells books that some people do not want their children to read, these people do not buy such books. Thus the polarization that results from public libraries is absent.
Advocates will respond that public libraries provide free access to books and thus benefit low‐​income families. That is mainly false; public libraries typically locate in middle‐​class neighborhoods and serve middle‐​income families.
Fans of public provision might also argue that such libraries provide more than free access to books: story time, community events, author book signings, and the like. Private book stores, however, can do and provide these services if demand exists, perhaps because it brings in paying customers.