Introduction....................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Recent Experiences with Consolidation ...................................................................................................................... 4 Consolidation and the Costs of Delivering Government Ser...

Robert Agranoff School of Public and Environmental Affairs Indiana University-Bloomington, USA and Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset Madrid, SPAIN Asymmetry in governing receives a fair amount of attention in Spain. Late in 2004 the Basque Country parliament put forth the Ibarretexe plan (named after the regional premier Juan José Ibarretexe), that attempts to redefine devolved regional a...

BACKGROUND Regional-based Integrated Healthcare Networks (IHNs) have been promoted in Brazil to overcome the fragmentation due to the health system decentralization to the municipal level; however, evaluations are scarce. The aim of this article is to analyse the content of IHN policies in force in Brazil, and the factors that influence policy implementation from the policymakers' perspective. ...

In recent years entrepreneurship research has increasingly interpreted new firm emergence in the light of the context the potential or real founder is living and working in. This is especially true for university spin-offs, a type of new firms that gives rise to great hopes for policymakers and technology transfer institutions. The aim of this paper is to analyze what is more influential: speci...

The paper discusses the intended versus realised implications of the Digital North Denmark IT program, DDN. The analysis is partial in the sense that is focused on whether and how the program may have long-term consequences for the development perspectives for the regional Information and Communications Technology industries (ICT). DDN was a regional IT program running 2000-2003 in North Jutlan...

In 1959, the regional government of Western Nigeria established the 1st television station in Nigeria and in Africa. Even though it promoted the station as a means to educate the people about development and the world, it initially served as a means for an opposition leader to address the people of Western Nigeria. The regional governments of Eastern and Northern Nigeria and the federal gover...