empirical evidence from OECD economies David Rodriguez-Justicia1 & Bernd Theilen 2✉ This paper analyzes the extent to which ideological differences between citizens and their governments, in conjunction with
The events of October 7, 2023, and the subsequent war have starkly exposed the shortcoming of Israel’s public mental health system. This system, already strained by years of underfunding and the COVID-19 pandemic, was unprepared for the surge in mental health needs resulting from these trauma...
empirical evidence from OECD economies David Rodriguez-Justicia1 & Bernd Theilen 2✉ This paper analyzes the extent to which ideological differences between citizens and their governments, in conjunction with the observed size of the public sector, influence taxpayers' intrinsic motivations to pay taxes...
The Procurement Act 2023 (“Act”) received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023 and is due to come into force on 24 February 2025. The Act establishes a single legal framework for the award of public contracts, including utilities contracts and defence contracts. There is also secondary legislation...
ARTICLE HISTORY Received 12 October 2022; Accepted 10 June 2023 KEYWORDS stereotype threat; public sector stereotypes; job-related task-performance; experimental research Introduction Public employees are stereotyped as lazy, slow, and inefficient (e.g. Bertram, Bouwman, and Tummers 2022; De Boer ...
Many of the largest and most influential industries in the global economy operate digitally as multi-sided platforms, catering to different groups who are
While, theoretically, an important disadvantage of consumption-side policies is the weak incentives for technical improvements to production, the actual potential of technological solutions to reduce GHG emissions in the agricultural sector has been found to be small (Springmann et al., 2018). An ad...
Public sector firms offer discounted essential goods and services to meet redistribution objectives. However, the private sector may respond adversely to the presence of public firms. Alternatively, private firms may not suffer if there is market segmentation. What ultimately determines the private sector...
Over the last years, public engagement has become a topic of scholarly and policy debate particularly in biomedicine, a field that increasingly centres around collecting, sharing and analysing personal data. However, the use of big data in biomedicine po
The public sector faces considerable challenges that stem from increasing external and internal demands, the need for diverse and complex services, and cit