RT Journal Article
T1 Public services performance: an extended framework and empirical assessment across the enlarged EU
A1 Di Meglio Berg, Gisela Amanda
A1 Stare, Metka
A1 Maroto, Andrés
A1 Rubalcaba, Luis
AB Performance of the public sector is at the core of long-term wealth creation and welfare improvement. Yet, its measurement remains inadequate and flawed with data deficiency. The paper proposes an extended framework for the assessment of public services performance that accounts for long-term impacts on welfare and empirically evaluates it across 25 European countries on the basis of a wide set of proxy indicators. We relate the performance scores to input costs indices and propose a coherent typology of countries that corresponds to the patterns of economic effectiveness of public services. The empirical analysis reveals that due to differences in input costs across the enlarged EU the economic effectiveness of public services varies to a much larger extent than the performance, with some relatively large-sized governments (Sweden, Denmark, Austria) being the most effective ones.
PB Pion
SN 1472-3425
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34221
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34221
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 11 abr 2025