TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A1  - Seyfried, Markus
A1  - Brajnik, Irena Baclija
T1  - Mayors and administrative reforms
JF  - Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy
N2  - In recent decades, a wave of administrative reforms has changed local governance in many European countries. However, our knowledge about differences as well as similarities between the countries, driving forces, impacts, perceptions, and evaluation of these reforms is still limited. In the chapter, the authors give an overview about mayors’ perceptions and evaluations of two major reform trajectories: (a) re-organisation of local service delivery and (b) internal administrative/managerial reforms. Furthermore, differences between (groups of) countries as well as similarities among them are shown in these two fields of administrative reform. Finally, the authors tried to identify explanatory factors for specific perceptions of administrative reforms at the local level.
KW  - New public management
KW  - Local administrative systems
KW  - Administrative reform
KW  - Public-private partnerships
Y1  - 2017
SN  - 978-3-319-67410-0
SN  - 978-3-319-67409-4
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67410-0_13
SP  - 387
EP  - 409
PB  - Palgrave
CY  - Basingstoke
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kaan, Christopher
A1  - Liese, Andrea Margit
T1  - Public private partnerships in global food governance: business engagement and legitimacy in the global fight against hunger and malnutrition
JF  - Agriculture and human values : journal of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society
N2  - This article compares two transnational public-private partnerships against hunger and malnutrition, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and the International Alliance Against Hunger with regard to their degree of business involvement and their input and output legimacy. We examine the participation of stakeholders, the accountability and transparency of the decision-making process, and the perceived provision of a public good. We identify a link between business involvement and output legitimacy, and we discuss the implications for public and private food governance.
KW  - Public-private partnerships
KW  - Transnational governance
KW  - Legitimacy
KW  - Business participation
KW  - Hunger
KW  - Malnutrition
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-009-9255-0
SN  - 0889-048X
VL  - 28
IS  - 3
SP  - 385
EP  - 399
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hudson, Paul
A1  - Botzen, W. J. Wouter
A1  - Aerts, Jeroen C. J. H.
T1  - Flood insurance arrangements in the European Union for future flood risk under climate and socioeconomic change
JF  - Global environmental change : human and policy dimensions
N2  - Flood risk will increase in many areas around the world due to climate change and increase in economic exposure. This implies that adequate flood insurance schemes are needed to adapt to increasing flood risk and to minimise welfare losses for households in flood-prone areas. Flood insurance markets may need reform to offer sufficient and affordable financial protection and incentives for risk reduction. Here, we present the results of a study that aims to evaluate the ability of flood insurance arrangements in Europe to cope with trends in flood risk, using criteria that encompass common elements of the policy debate on flood insurance reform. We show that the average risk-based flood insurance premium could double between 2015 and 2055 in the absence of more risk reduction by households exposed to flooding. We show that part of the expected future increase in flood risk could be limited by flood insurance mechanisms that better incentivise risk reduction by policyholders, which lowers vulnerability. The affordability of flood insurance can be improved by introducing the key features of public-private partnerships (PPPs), which include public reinsurance, limited premium cross-subsidisation between low- and high-risk households, and incentives for policyholder-level risk reduction. These findings were evaluated in a comprehensive sensitivity analysis and support ongoing reforms in Europe and abroad that move towards risk-based premiums and link insurance with risk reduction, strengthen purchase requirements, and engage in multi-stakeholder partnerships.
KW  - Climate change adaptation
KW  - Flood risk
KW  - Insurance
KW  - Public-private partnerships
KW  - Risk reduction
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101966
SN  - 0959-3780
SN  - 1872-9495
VL  - 58
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -