Implementing Public Policies with User Fees that Align with Partisan Ideology: A Canadian Example

Transversal analysis of public policies on user fees exemptions in six West African countries

BACKGROUND While more and more West African countries are implementing public user fees exemption policies, there is still little knowledge available on this topic. The long time required for scientific production, combined with the needs of decision-makers, led to the creation in 2010 of a project to support implementers in aggregating knowledge on their experiences. This article presents a tr...

No user fees, but perhaps user fees.

Popular Ideology and Public Policy in Europe: Trends and Popular Ideology as a Determinant of Public Policies?

Does popular ideology affect public policies enacted in a country? The baseline argument links popular ideology input to policy output. Either a population more often elects a party with its favored ideology into office, which then implements policies in line with popular ideology. Alternatively, all parties pursue policies more in line with popular ideology. Under the first view, popular ideol...

From institutionalization of user fees to their abolition in West Africa: a story of pilot projects and public policies

This article analyzes the historical background of the institutionalization of user fees and their subsequent abolition in West Africa. Based on a narrative review, we present the context that frames the different articles in this supplement. We first show that a general consensus has emerged internationally against user fees, which were imposed widely in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s; at that ...

Public Service Provision, User Fees, and Political Turmoil∗

Following an electoral dispute, the central highlands of the island of Madagascar were subjected to an economic blockade during the first half of 2002. After the blockade ended in June 2002, user fees for health services and school fees were progressively eliminated. This paper examines the provision of schooling and health services to rural areas of Madagascar before, during, and after the blo...