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No. 29 | 07 Dec 2018 |
The role of Ombudsman Institutions in Open Government
Ombudsman institutions (OIs) act as the guardians of citizens’ rights and as a mediator between citizens and the public administration. While the very existence of such institutions is rooted in the notion of open government, the role they can play... |
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No. 28 | 19 Jun 2018 |
Blockchains Unchained
Blockchain technology has evolved from a niche subject to the hottest tech disruption buzzword, but there is still a lot of confusion about the subject. Without a clear understanding about what Blockchains are, their potential public sector potential... |
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No. 27 | 07 Jun 2017 |
Managing disaster-related contingent liabilities in public finance frameworks
Natural disasters have caused, and continue to cause, a significant amount of economic costs. The costs of disasters are often, and to a large extent, shouldered by governments, especially in economies where private insurance markets are not well... |
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No. 26 | 22 Dec 2014 |
Social Media Use by Governments
This working paper takes a comparative snapshot of social media use in and by OECD governments. The focus is on government institutions, as opposed to personalities, and how they manage to capture the opportunities of new social media platforms to... |
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No. 25 | 24 Oct 2014 |
Good Governance and National Well-being
The paper was prepared by John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang, Shawn Grover and Shun Wang in collaboration with Mario Marcel, Martin Forst and Tatyana Teplova. This paper has three main objectives. The first is to review existing studies of the links... |
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No. 24 | 17 Dec 2013 |
The Use of Social Media in Risk and Crisis Communication
This report highlights the changing landscape of risk and crisis communications and in particular how social media can be a beneficial tool, but also create challenges for crisis managers. It explores different practices of risk and crisis... |
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No. 23 | 29 Aug 2013 |
OECD Risk Management
Governments are confronted with crises that may spread beyond national borders and trigger significant economic knock-on effects. Managing crises is a key responsibility for governments, which have a crucial role to play to strengthen the resilience... |
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No. 22 | 27 May 2013 |
Open Government Data
Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives, and in particular the development of OGD portals, have proliferated since the mid-2000s both at central and local government levels in OECD and non OECD countries. Understanding the preconditions that enable... |
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No. 21 | 03 Apr 2013 |
The Government Workforce of the Future
Strategic workforce planning is gradually becoming a key priority and core management practice for public sector employees in OECD countries. In times of limited resources, governments are required to demonstrate workforce planning capability to meet... |
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No. 20 | 01 May 2012 |
Manual: Public Finance and Employment Database
The Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division of the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate of the OECD has developed a database of public expenditures according to spending purpose. The classification used resembles closely the... |
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No. 19 | 01 Feb 2011 |
Strengthening the Institutional Setting for Regulatory Reform
This Working Paper analyses the institutional setting for regulatory reform. It is the first comprehensive analysis of regulatory oversight bodies. The analysis adopts a functional approach through four core functions: i) oversight of the rule-making... |
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No. 18 | 01 Apr 2010 |
Successful Practices and Policies to Promote Regulatory Reform and Entrepreneurship at the Sub-national Level
This report is part of the OECD-Mexico initiative “Strengthening of Economic Competition and Regulatory Improvement for Competitiveness”. It summarises the findings of several case studies on best practices to promote regulatory reform and... |
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No. 17 | 17 May 2010 |
Assessing the Impact of Regulatory Management Systems
This Working Paper presents preliminary analytical estimates using the 1998 and 2005 surveys of indicators of systems for the management of regulatory quality. Two broad dimensions are found in regulatory management systems using Factor Analysis, and... |
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No. 16 | 17 Dec 2009 |
Tools for Regulatory Quality and Financial Sector Regulation
This report provides a comparative perspective on the application of quality regulation principles to financial sector regulators, in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK and France. The report compares key provisions of the codes of the Basle Committee... |
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No. 14 | 05 Oct 2009 |
Mind the Gaps: Managing Mutual Dependence in Relations among Levels of Government
OECD member and non-member governments are actively looking for ways to facilitate and improve the relationships among levels of government. These relationships lie between the central and sub-national levels, as well as among peer levels (i.e.,... |
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No. 13 | 01 Jun 2009 |
Multi-Level Regulatory Governance
Multi-level regulatory governance is becoming a priority in many OECD countries. High quality regulation at a certain level of government can be compromised by poor regulatory policies and practices at other levels, impacting negatively on the... |
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No. 12 | 01 Dec 2008 |
Managing Change in OECD Governments
This paper argues that reform and change are generally used as interchangeable concepts but that is not always appropriate as reforms do not always produce change and changes are not always the product of reform efforts. This study draws on the... |
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No. 10 | 01 May 2008 |
Regulatory Institutions
The paper develops an architecture for regulatory institutions that could be feasible in the current Russian context. The paper examines two specific areas: first, establishing a regulatory oversight unit, located at the centre of government,... |
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No. 9 | 01 Jan 2007 |
Regulatory Management Systems Across OECD Countries
This Working Paper is structured in two sections. The first section presents the contributions and limits of composite indicators of regulatory management systems. The second section provides an overview of regulatory management systems, including... |
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No. 8 | 01 Feb 2008 |
Employment in Government in the Perspective of the Production Costs of Goods and Services in the Public Domain
One of the activities of the Public Governance Committee is the development of comparable data and indicators of good government and efficient public services. An ongoing element is the development of a new methodology to gather comparable data on... |
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The role of Ombudsman Institutions in Open Government
Katharina Zuegel, Emma Cantera and Alessandro Bellantoni
07 Dec 2018
Ombudsman institutions (OIs) act as the guardians of citizens’ rights and as a mediator between citizens and the public administration. While the very existence of such institutions is rooted in the notion of open government, the role they can play...
Blockchains Unchained
Jamie Berryhill, Théo Bourgery and Angela Hanson
19 Jun 2018
Blockchain technology has evolved from a niche subject to the hottest tech disruption buzzword, but there is still a lot of confusion about the subject. Without a clear understanding about what Blockchains are, their potential public sector potential...
Managing disaster-related contingent liabilities in public finance frameworks
Catherine Gamper, Benedikt Signer, Luis Alton and Murray Petrie
07 Jun 2017
Natural disasters have caused, and continue to cause, a significant amount of economic costs. The costs of disasters are often, and to a large extent, shouldered by governments, especially in economies where private insurance markets are not well...
Social Media Use by Governments
Arthur Mickoleit
22 Dec 2014
This working paper takes a comparative snapshot of social media use in and by OECD governments. The focus is on government institutions, as opposed to personalities, and how they manage to capture the opportunities of new social media platforms to...
Good Governance and National Well-being
John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang, Shawn Grover and Shun Wang
24 Oct 2014
The paper was prepared by John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang, Shawn Grover and Shun Wang in collaboration with Mario Marcel, Martin Forst and Tatyana Teplova. This paper has three main objectives. The first is to review existing studies of the links...
The Use of Social Media in Risk and Crisis Communication
Cécile Wendling, Jack Radisch and Stephane Jacobzone
17 Dec 2013
This report highlights the changing landscape of risk and crisis communications and in particular how social media can be a beneficial tool, but also create challenges for crisis managers. It explores different practices of risk and crisis...
OECD Risk Management
Charles Baubion
29 Aug 2013
Governments are confronted with crises that may spread beyond national borders and trigger significant economic knock-on effects. Managing crises is a key responsibility for governments, which have a crucial role to play to strengthen the resilience...
Open Government Data
Barbara Ubaldi
27 May 2013
Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives, and in particular the development of OGD portals, have proliferated since the mid-2000s both at central and local government levels in OECD and non OECD countries. Understanding the preconditions that enable...
The Government Workforce of the Future
Oscar Huerta Melchor
03 Apr 2013
Strategic workforce planning is gradually becoming a key priority and core management practice for public sector employees in OECD countries. In times of limited resources, governments are required to demonstrate workforce planning capability to meet...
Manual: Public Finance and Employment Database
Dirk-Jan Kraan, Alessandro Lupi and Emmanuel Job
01 May 2012
The Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division of the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate of the OECD has developed a database of public expenditures according to spending purpose. The classification used resembles closely the...
Strengthening the Institutional Setting for Regulatory Reform
Cesar Cordova-Novion and Stephane Jacobzone
01 Feb 2011
This Working Paper analyses the institutional setting for regulatory reform. It is the first comprehensive analysis of regulatory oversight bodies. The analysis adopts a functional approach through four core functions: i) oversight of the rule-making...
Successful Practices and Policies to Promote Regulatory Reform and Entrepreneurship at the Sub-national Level
Jacobo Pastor García Villarreal
01 Apr 2010
This report is part of the OECD-Mexico initiative “Strengthening of Economic Competition and Regulatory Improvement for Competitiveness”. It summarises the findings of several case studies on best practices to promote regulatory reform and...
Assessing the Impact of Regulatory Management Systems
Stephane Jacobzone, Faye Steiner, Erika Lopez Ponton and Emmanuel Job
17 May 2010
This Working Paper presents preliminary analytical estimates using the 1998 and 2005 surveys of indicators of systems for the management of regulatory quality. Two broad dimensions are found in regulatory management systems using Factor Analysis, and...
Tools for Regulatory Quality and Financial Sector Regulation
Julia Black and Stephane Jacobzone
17 Dec 2009
This report provides a comparative perspective on the application of quality regulation principles to financial sector regulators, in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK and France. The report compares key provisions of the codes of the Basle Committee...
Mind the Gaps: Managing Mutual Dependence in Relations among Levels of Government
Claire Charbit and Maria Varinia Michalun
05 Oct 2009
OECD member and non-member governments are actively looking for ways to facilitate and improve the relationships among levels of government. These relationships lie between the central and sub-national levels, as well as among peer levels (i.e.,...
Multi-Level Regulatory Governance
Delia Rodrigo, Lorenzo Allio and Pedro Andres-Amo
01 Jun 2009
Multi-level regulatory governance is becoming a priority in many OECD countries. High quality regulation at a certain level of government can be compromised by poor regulatory policies and practices at other levels, impacting negatively on the...
Managing Change in OECD Governments
Oscar Huerta Melchor
01 Dec 2008
This paper argues that reform and change are generally used as interchangeable concepts but that is not always appropriate as reforms do not always produce change and changes are not always the product of reform efforts. This study draws on the...
Regulatory Institutions
Donato de Rosa and Nick Malyshev
01 May 2008
The paper develops an architecture for regulatory institutions that could be feasible in the current Russian context. The paper examines two specific areas: first, establishing a regulatory oversight unit, located at the centre of government,...
Regulatory Management Systems Across OECD Countries
Stephane Jacobzone, Gregory Bounds, Chang-won Choi and Claire Miguet
01 Jan 2007
This Working Paper is structured in two sections. The first section presents the contributions and limits of composite indicators of regulatory management systems. The second section provides an overview of regulatory management systems, including...
Employment in Government in the Perspective of the Production Costs of Goods and Services in the Public Domain
Elsa Pilichowski and Edouard Turkisch
01 Feb 2008
One of the activities of the Public Governance Committee is the development of comparable data and indicators of good government and efficient public services. An ongoing element is the development of a new methodology to gather comparable data on...