Quality Matters
Quality Matters

Author: John Winston Mayne

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-12

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1351322427

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Information--regular, systematic, reliable--is the life-blood of democracy and the fuel of effective management. Surely today there is no problem with information, for this is the age of information overload. It pours onto our computer screens and out of our printers. Indeed, many governments claim, often with some justification, to be more open and transparent than ever before. But what if the life-blood is contaminated, or the fuel polluted? Then the body politic sickens and the engine of public management runs rough. It is the vital issue of the quality of the information we receive that this book addresses. Quality Matters compares approaches across different jurisdictional settings and across three different types of information evaluation. The chapters describe and analyze quality assurance in a number of countries and within a variety of international organizations. These have been selected either because they are widely considered to be leaders in evaluating information or because they have experience with assuring quality information that can instruct others. Contributors are from Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, and the World Bank. This pioneering study analyzes practices for assuring the quality of evaluation, performance auditing, and reporting in the face of political, organizational, and technical obstacles. A final chapter addresses the extent to which quality assurance systems become bothersome rituals or remain meaningful mechanisms to ensure quality control. This well-structured volume will be of particular interest to policymakers and adds much to the literature on program evaluation and performance auditing.

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Publisher: Odile Jacob

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Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13: 2738191045

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Can Governments Learn?
Can Governments Learn?

Author: Frans L. Leeuw

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-03-05

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1000676064

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There is continual concern about the ability of governments to perform the duties and responsibilities that their citizens have come to expect from them. Many citizens view government as inept, arthritic, and dedicated to the preservation of the bureaucratic status quo. As we close the twentieth century, the challenge for democratic governments is to become adaptive, flexible, innovative, and creative. In short, they need to become learning organizations. This book explores what it will take for governments to break out of their traditional ways of approaching problems and learn new approaches to finding solutions. Can Governments Learn? examines organizational learning in the public sector. It seeks to understand the role policy and program evaluation information can play in helping governments learn. Among the democratic societies studied are Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. Significantly, the studies documented here show that the concept of organizational learning has vitality and applicability cross-nationally. Can Governments Learn? evaluates preconditions for governmental learning as well as the institutional and human resource factors that contribute to the process. This volume in the Comparative Policy Analysis Series is essential for policymakers, government officials, and scholars interested in improving the performance of governments.

Governance in Transition
Governance in Transition

Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Public Management Service

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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"This report analyses the nature of these reforms, their rationale and design as well as issues of implementation and evaluation"--Back cover.

Expertise de justice
Expertise de justice

Author: Institut européen de l'Expertise et de l'Expert

Publisher: Bruylant

Published: 2015-10-21

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 2802748807

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Améliorer la qualité de l’expertise de justice et tendre à harmoniser sa pratique en Europe afin de favoriser l’exercice effectif des droits et de renforcer la confiance des justiciables dans le règlement de leurs litiges, telles sont les ambitions de l’EEEI, Institut européen de l’expertise et de l’expert. Après avoir contribué à faire émerger des pistes de convergence de l’analyse du recours à l’expertise de justice dans les pays de l’Union européenne et en Norvège dans le cadre du projet EUREXPERTISE soutenu par la Commission européenne, des professionnels de la matière, magistrats, avocats, experts, universitaires s’impliquent ici, dans cette démarche d’harmonisation, au-delà des systèmes juridiques de droit interne, en accompagnant le projet EGLE qui doit aboutir à l’élaboration d’un guide européen des bonnes pratiques de l’expertise de justice. Préfacé par le professeur Hans Franken, cet ouvrage regroupe les réflexions de ces praticiens de différents États de l’Union européenne sur les exigences que doit satisfaire l’expertise de justice pour répondre aux besoins des juges et des justiciables et sur la nécessité d’identifier des techniciens compétents, indépendants, impartiaux, aptes à concourir efficacement à l’œuvre de justice. Illustré par une présentation d’actions déjà mises en œuvre au niveau local pour promouvoir une expertise de qualité et riche d’analyses pluridisciplinaires lucides sur les freins à l’instauration d’une véritable procédure européenne d’expertise, pourtant souhaitée, cet ouvrage est destiné en premier lieu aux praticiens de la résolution de litiges transfrontaliers et aux autorités qui concourent, au plan local ou national, au processus de l’expertise de justice ou au recrutement et à l’habilitation des experts de justice.

Damages for Violations of Human Rights
Damages for Violations of Human Rights

Author: Ewa Bagińska

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-20

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 3319189506

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This volume analyses the legal grounds, premises and extent of pecuniary compensation for violations of human rights in national legal systems. The scope of comparison includes liability regimes in general and in detail, the correlation between pecuniary remedies available under international law and under domestic law, and special (alternative) compensation systems. All sources of human rights violations are embraced, including historical injustices and systematical and gross violations. The book is a collection of nineteen contributions written by public international law, international human rights and private law experts, covering fifteen European jurisdictions (including Central and Eastern Europe), the United States, Israel and EU law. The contributions, initially prepared for the 19th International Congress of Comparative law in Vienna (2014), present the latest developments in legislation, scholarship and case-law concerning domestic causes of action in cases of human rights abuses. The book concludes with a comparative report which assesses the developments in tort law and public liability law, the role of the constitutionalisation of the right to damages as well as the court practice related to the process of enforcement of human rights through monetary remedies. This country-by-country comparison allows to consider whether the value of protection of human rights as expressed in international treaties, ius cogens and in national constitutional laws justifies the conclusion that the interests at stake should enjoy protection under the existing civil liability rules, or that a new cause of action, or even a whole new set of rules, should be created in national systems.