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Public innovation is moving to the top of the research and reform agendas in many Western countries. Innovation is increasingly viewed as an important means to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public service delivery, but the need for policy innovation has been largely overlooked despite the fact that policy innovation is a key aspect of public innovation. New strands of innovation theory and governance theory highlight the important role of collaboration for promoting public as well as private sector innovation. However, efforts to enhance the public sector's capacity for collaborative policy innovation calls for the development of a new role for politicians, as is illustrated by two Danish case studies of collaborative policy innovation projects.
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Thèse numérisée par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.
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Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal.
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Thèse numérisée par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.
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Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.
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Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal.
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AbstractIn this mainly theoretical article, the author seeks to understand how a theory issued from the study of public policies associated with an anthropology of development lens helps to understand why the implementation of a health policy in West Africa, the Bamako Initiative, has not fulfilled its promises (effectiveness versus equity). The application of the extension of the agenda setting theory by Kingdon proposed by Lemieux (three streams approach), as well as the role of the actors, lead us towards five research hypothesis that explain the problem. The heuristic interest of Kingdon's and Lemieux's propositions are shown and an analytical framework is suggested.
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ABSTRACTThree commonly used measures of the impact of public spending yield conflicting results: one suggests that the public sector should be small, another that it should be large, and the third that it does not matter. Here, we avoid the problems of each approach by formulating a model in which the government maximizes output subject to a social contract that fixes the spending shares of public consumption and transfers. We find that public consumption has a positive effect and transfers a negative effect on output. The optimal size of the total public sector is about 25 percent of GDP.