OBJECTIVES Area-level public health interventions can be difficult to evaluate using natural experiments. We describe the use of propensity score matching (PSM) to select control local authority areas (LAU) to evaluate the public health impact of alcohol policies for (1) prospective evaluation of alcohol policies using area-level data, and (2) a novel two-stage quasi case-control design. STUD...

objective: the main objective of this research was the economic valuation of public library services using the contingent valuation. although, estimating the average willingness to pay for public library service, demographics on the willingness to pay, and economic valuation and pricing public library services were other objectives that investigated in this study. methodology: explanatory varia...

Kamu Yönetimi disiplininin bir kimlik bunalımı içinde olduğu, alanın önde gelen araştırmacıları tarafından uzun zamandır savunulmaktadır. Bu kadar sürmesi, disiplinin, bunalımını aşan çok boyutlu bunalım olduğunu göstermektedir. Disipliner statü, değer kuramı, yöntem bilimi ve kuramsal altyapı konularında kendini gösteren bunalımın düğümlendiği nokta araştırma nesnesi sorunudur. Günümüz Yönetim...

The new World Bank strategy on Public Sector Management (PSM) has to be judged against the magnitude of the problems it faces. Two of these are what to do about failed and failing states and what to do about the stagnation of progress in ‘flailing’ states. On both of these fronts the gap between what the world of action wants – an implementable action plan to tackle tough problems like Afghanis...