Vicente Pina
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vicente Pina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vicente |
| FAMILY NAME | Pina |
| SIGNATURE | PINA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Zaragoza |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The role of legitimacy in robust crisis governance. Examining the failed European response to the turbulence of the 2015-16 refugee crisis
This article examines the European governance failures that occurred during the 2015-16 refugee crisis through the lens of robust crisis governance. The article asks whether these failures can be explained by a failure to meet the double criterion for robust governance proposed by Ansell and colleagues, which is (i) creating adaptive or innovative crisis responses and (ii) doing so while maintaining legitimacy. To answer this question, the articl…
How service users envision their engagement in processes of collaborative innovation: A Q-methodological study on user involvement in eHealth collaborations
Involving users in innovating public services is an increasingly common, but challenging practice, as users often have different viewpoints on their own role in the process. Particularly in complex innovation arrangements such as public-private collaborations, governments and service innovators need to be aware of users’ perceptions of their involvement to maximally exploit the advantages of including them. This article theorizes and tests four d…
Are Performance Audits Useful? A Comparison of EU Practices
Performance audits allow audit institutions to contribute to the improvement of the economy, efficiency, and/or effectiveness of public sector entities through the recommendations of their reports. To assess the impact of the performance audits carried out by EU Supreme and Regional Audit Institutions, this article analyzes whether these recommendations are implemented in practice or not. The results show that there are two main ways in which the…
Is there performance convergence in OECD public administration styles
This article contributes to the assessment of the comparative evolution of the public sector performance, productivity and efficiency of 22 OECD countries in the first decade of this century. Overall results show that the average public sector productivity of Anglo‐Saxon countries is higher than that of European Continental and Nordic countries, but the inequality of the distribution of wealth is also bigger. Although the administrative culture o…
Comparing online with offline citizen engagement for climate change: Findings from Austria, Germany and Spain
Performance Measurement in Spanish Local Governments. A Cross‐case Comparison Study
This paper explores local government in Spain: the nature of and extent to which performance measures are developed and how they are used in some of the biggest Spanish local governments. The features of performance measurement in Spain raise the question of why non‐mandatory performance indicators are introduced and why specific initiatives are undertaken. A cross‐theory strategy allows us to build a wider explanation of the cases studied. This …
Accrual Accounting in EU Local Governments: One Method, Several Approaches
This paper seeks to measure the degree of accrual implementation in EU local government accounting systems and also tries to give an answer to the question of why accrual accounting has overcome the resistance to other New Public Management (NPM) reforms in countries relatively suspicious of them. We carry out our analysis through the comparison of the accrual accounting legal requirements in force in each country, and the published financial sta…
Are Icts Improving Transparency and Accountability in the Eu Regional and Local Governments? An Empirical Study
This paper conducts an empirical study about the effect of e‐government on transparency, openness and, hence, accountability in 15 countries of the EU. Thus the effects examined cover over 84 per cent of EU population. The population also represents the different types of public administration styles that exist in Western developed countries. The paper compares the development and sophistication of 318 government web sites at sub‐national level a…
E-Governance Developments in European Union Cities: Reshaping Government's Relationship with Citizens
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the challenge to governments is to improve citizens’ trust in governments. The Internet aids good governance by increasing transparency and customer-oriented service delivery. During the last few years, European Union local governments have expanded their presence on the Internet. This article presents empirical evidence on the nature of e-governance initiatives in cities across Europe. The findings c…
E‐government and the transformation of public administrations in EU countries: Beyond NPM or just a second wave of reforms?
Purpose The objective of this paper is to study the development of e‐government initiatives at the regional and local level in the EU through the opinion of those agents directly involved in the projects. Design/methodology/approach The authors wrote a questionnaire that was sent to the regions and the largest cities of EU countries, in order to find out their degree of involvement in e‐government initiatives. Responses were received from 47 regi…
E-government developments on delivering public services among EU cities
Reshaping Public Administration: The Spanish Experience Compared to the UK
This paper analyses the nature and extent of the policies of modernizing Spanish public administration. Successive Spanish governments have been involved in modernizing public administration with the stress on customer focus, improving service delivery and implementing quality awards, service charts and information technologies. As a basis for assessing the reforms, we compare Spanish New Public Management (NPM) developments with the initiatives …
Publicprivate partnership and private finance initiatives in the EU and Spanish local governments
This paper analyses the different public-private partnership initiatives carried out by EU and Spanish local governments in the framework of public sector reforms. In the first part we analyse the degree of externalization in the public services delivered by the most important EU cities and the kind of organization chosen to provide them. In the second part we study the different methods of PFI applied in Spain and the accounting, auditing and mo…
Public–private partnership and private finance initiatives in the EU and Spanish local governments
Are Icts Improving Transparency and Accountability in the Eu Regional and Local Governments? An Empirical Study
This paper conducts an empirical study about the effect of e‐government on transparency, openness and, hence, accountability in 15 countries of the EU. Thus the effects examined cover over 84 per cent of EU population. The population also represents the different types of public administration styles that exist in Western developed countries. The paper compares the development and sophistication of 318 government web sites at sub‐national level a…
E-Governance Developments in European Union Cities: Reshaping Government's Relationship with Citizens
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the challenge to governments is to improve citizens’ trust in governments. The Internet aids good governance by increasing transparency and customer-oriented service delivery. During the last few years, European Union local governments have expanded their presence on the Internet. This article presents empirical evidence on the nature of e-governance initiatives in cities across Europe. The findings c…
E-government developments on delivering public services among EU cities
Reshaping Public Administration: The Spanish Experience Compared to the UK
This paper analyses the nature and extent of the policies of modernizing Spanish public administration. Successive Spanish governments have been involved in modernizing public administration with the stress on customer focus, improving service delivery and implementing quality awards, service charts and information technologies. As a basis for assessing the reforms, we compare Spanish New Public Management (NPM) developments with the initiatives …
E‐government and the transformation of public administrations in EU countries: Beyond NPM or just a second wave of reforms?
Purpose The objective of this paper is to study the development of e‐government initiatives at the regional and local level in the EU through the opinion of those agents directly involved in the projects. Design/methodology/approach The authors wrote a questionnaire that was sent to the regions and the largest cities of EU countries, in order to find out their degree of involvement in e‐government initiatives. Responses were received from 47 regi…
Performance Measurement in Spanish Local Governments. A Cross‐case Comparison Study
This paper explores local government in Spain: the nature of and extent to which performance measures are developed and how they are used in some of the biggest Spanish local governments. The features of performance measurement in Spain raise the question of why non‐mandatory performance indicators are introduced and why specific initiatives are undertaken. A cross‐theory strategy allows us to build a wider explanation of the cases studied. This …
Comparing online with offline citizen engagement for climate change: Findings from Austria, Germany and Spain
How service users envision their engagement in processes of collaborative innovation: A Q-methodological study on user involvement in eHealth collaborations
Involving users in innovating public services is an increasingly common, but challenging practice, as users often have different viewpoints on their own role in the process. Particularly in complex innovation arrangements such as public-private collaborations, governments and service innovators need to be aware of users’ perceptions of their involvement to maximally exploit the advantages of including them. This article theorizes and tests four d…
Publicprivate partnership and private finance initiatives in the EU and Spanish local governments
This paper analyses the different public-private partnership initiatives carried out by EU and Spanish local governments in the framework of public sector reforms. In the first part we analyse the degree of externalization in the public services delivered by the most important EU cities and the kind of organization chosen to provide them. In the second part we study the different methods of PFI applied in Spain and the accounting, auditing and mo…
Public–private partnership and private finance initiatives in the EU and Spanish local governments
Reshaping Public Administration: The Spanish Experience Compared to the UK
This paper analyses the nature and extent of the policies of modernizing Spanish public administration. Successive Spanish governments have been involved in modernizing public administration with the stress on customer focus, improving service delivery and implementing quality awards, service charts and information technologies. As a basis for assessing the reforms, we compare Spanish New Public Management (NPM) developments with the initiatives …
E‐government and the transformation of public administrations in EU countries: Beyond NPM or just a second wave of reforms?
Purpose The objective of this paper is to study the development of e‐government initiatives at the regional and local level in the EU through the opinion of those agents directly involved in the projects. Design/methodology/approach The authors wrote a questionnaire that was sent to the regions and the largest cities of EU countries, in order to find out their degree of involvement in e‐government initiatives. Responses were received from 47 regi…
E-government developments on delivering public services among EU cities
E-Governance Developments in European Union Cities: Reshaping Government's Relationship with Citizens
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the challenge to governments is to improve citizens’ trust in governments. The Internet aids good governance by increasing transparency and customer-oriented service delivery. During the last few years, European Union local governments have expanded their presence on the Internet. This article presents empirical evidence on the nature of e-governance initiatives in cities across Europe. The findings c…
Are Icts Improving Transparency and Accountability in the Eu Regional and Local Governments? An Empirical Study
This paper conducts an empirical study about the effect of e‐government on transparency, openness and, hence, accountability in 15 countries of the EU. Thus the effects examined cover over 84 per cent of EU population. The population also represents the different types of public administration styles that exist in Western developed countries. The paper compares the development and sophistication of 318 government web sites at sub‐national level a…
Accrual Accounting in EU Local Governments: One Method, Several Approaches
This paper seeks to measure the degree of accrual implementation in EU local government accounting systems and also tries to give an answer to the question of why accrual accounting has overcome the resistance to other New Public Management (NPM) reforms in countries relatively suspicious of them. We carry out our analysis through the comparison of the accrual accounting legal requirements in force in each country, and the published financial sta…
Performance Measurement in Spanish Local Governments. A Cross‐case Comparison Study
This paper explores local government in Spain: the nature of and extent to which performance measures are developed and how they are used in some of the biggest Spanish local governments. The features of performance measurement in Spain raise the question of why non‐mandatory performance indicators are introduced and why specific initiatives are undertaken. A cross‐theory strategy allows us to build a wider explanation of the cases studied. This …
Comparing online with offline citizen engagement for climate change: Findings from Austria, Germany and Spain
Are Performance Audits Useful? A Comparison of EU Practices
Performance audits allow audit institutions to contribute to the improvement of the economy, efficiency, and/or effectiveness of public sector entities through the recommendations of their reports. To assess the impact of the performance audits carried out by EU Supreme and Regional Audit Institutions, this article analyzes whether these recommendations are implemented in practice or not. The results show that there are two main ways in which the…
Is there performance convergence in OECD public administration styles
This article contributes to the assessment of the comparative evolution of the public sector performance, productivity and efficiency of 22 OECD countries in the first decade of this century. Overall results show that the average public sector productivity of Anglo‐Saxon countries is higher than that of European Continental and Nordic countries, but the inequality of the distribution of wealth is also bigger. Although the administrative culture o…
How service users envision their engagement in processes of collaborative innovation: A Q-methodological study on user involvement in eHealth collaborations
Involving users in innovating public services is an increasingly common, but challenging practice, as users often have different viewpoints on their own role in the process. Particularly in complex innovation arrangements such as public-private collaborations, governments and service innovators need to be aware of users’ perceptions of their involvement to maximally exploit the advantages of including them. This article theorizes and tests four d…
The role of legitimacy in robust crisis governance. Examining the failed European response to the turbulence of the 2015-16 refugee crisis
This article examines the European governance failures that occurred during the 2015-16 refugee crisis through the lens of robust crisis governance. The article asks whether these failures can be explained by a failure to meet the double criterion for robust governance proposed by Ansell and colleagues, which is (i) creating adaptive or innovative crisis responses and (ii) doing so while maintaining legitimacy. To answer this question, the articl…
Business (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (7 works) · E-Government and Public Services (6 works) · Marketing (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Government (linguistics (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works)