Anka Kekez
Biographic Data
| ID | 5912674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anka Kekez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anka |
| FAMILY NAME | Kekez |
| SIGNATURE | KEKEZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zagreb |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4185-5537 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Street-level partnership
Collaborative governance is widely promoted as a way to address complex social challenges, yet collaborative service delivery often operates in environments where enabling conditions are weak, fragmented, or inconsistently institutionalized. How collaboration persists under such constraints remains insufficiently understood. This study examines how frontline actors sustain cross-sector service delivery when formal coordination mechanisms, stable …
From hierarchy to continuum
Unboxing the vague notion of policy goals
This study aims at empirically improving public policy theory by unfolding the concept of policy goals and contributing to their classifications. The research focuses on the thematic dimension of policy goals and investigates 11 Croatian governmental strategies using qualitative content analysis. The research identifies original policy goal types and classifies them into sector‐, process‐, evaluation‐, instrument‐, and value‐oriented goals. Artic…
Public service reforms and clientelism
This article seeks to explain the differences in outcomes of social services reform in Croatia during the previous two decades. While the service management reform was based on the principles of effectiveness, efficiency and participation in one segment of social services, in the other segment, reform was used for the development of partisan patronage networks. Using the comparable case strategy, the article focuses on six social services and rel…
Understanding Co-Production as a Policy Tool
Co-production is an area of policy making in many countries which has received little treatment in the policy studies literature. It has been studied in the field of public administration and public management however, albeit mainly in the case of education-related activities in Scandinavian countries. Using the cases of co-production of support services for the disabled and the elderly in the little-studied programs found in Croatia and Thailand…
Understanding Co-Production as a Policy Tool
Co-production is an area of policy making in many countries which has received little treatment in the policy studies literature. It has been studied in the field of public administration and public management however, albeit mainly in the case of education-related activities in Scandinavian countries. Using the cases of co-production of support services for the disabled and the elderly in the little-studied programs found in Croatia and Thailand…
Unboxing the vague notion of policy goals
This study aims at empirically improving public policy theory by unfolding the concept of policy goals and contributing to their classifications. The research focuses on the thematic dimension of policy goals and investigates 11 Croatian governmental strategies using qualitative content analysis. The research identifies original policy goal types and classifies them into sector‐, process‐, evaluation‐, instrument‐, and value‐oriented goals. Artic…
Public service reforms and clientelism
This article seeks to explain the differences in outcomes of social services reform in Croatia during the previous two decades. While the service management reform was based on the principles of effectiveness, efficiency and participation in one segment of social services, in the other segment, reform was used for the development of partisan patronage networks. Using the comparable case strategy, the article focuses on six social services and rel…
From hierarchy to continuum
Understanding Co-Production as a Policy Tool
Co-production is an area of policy making in many countries which has received little treatment in the policy studies literature. It has been studied in the field of public administration and public management however, albeit mainly in the case of education-related activities in Scandinavian countries. Using the cases of co-production of support services for the disabled and the elderly in the little-studied programs found in Croatia and Thailand…
Public service reforms and clientelism
This article seeks to explain the differences in outcomes of social services reform in Croatia during the previous two decades. While the service management reform was based on the principles of effectiveness, efficiency and participation in one segment of social services, in the other segment, reform was used for the development of partisan patronage networks. Using the comparable case strategy, the article focuses on six social services and rel…
Unboxing the vague notion of policy goals
This study aims at empirically improving public policy theory by unfolding the concept of policy goals and contributing to their classifications. The research focuses on the thematic dimension of policy goals and investigates 11 Croatian governmental strategies using qualitative content analysis. The research identifies original policy goal types and classifies them into sector‐, process‐, evaluation‐, instrument‐, and value‐oriented goals. Artic…
From hierarchy to continuum
Street-level partnership
Collaborative governance is widely promoted as a way to address complex social challenges, yet collaborative service delivery often operates in environments where enabling conditions are weak, fragmented, or inconsistently institutionalized. How collaboration persists under such constraints remains insufficiently understood. This study examines how frontline actors sustain cross-sector service delivery when formal coordination mechanisms, stable …
Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (3 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (3 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Dimension (graph theory (2 works)