The diploma thesis deals with the topic of the Private-Public-Partnership (PPP) projects, as a tool for mutual financing of the public projects by private sector. Its main goal is to confirm or disprove the hypothesis, that the PPP projects are more effective form of the financing of the public projects and solve the problem of the debt trap into which countries entered in last decades. The thesis also defines the problem of the PPP project, their advantages and disadvantages and possible risks, analyses their usage in the Czech Republic and compares the experiences from the Great Britain in first two decades of the 21st century. The theoretical part of the thesis copes with the topic of financing of the projects of public sector and PPP projects. The descriptive and comparative methods will be used. In the practical part of the thesis will be performed the comparison of the chosen projects by synthetic analysis and the recommendation for the Czech Republic will be formulated based on the findings.

This thesis is dedicated to a partnership of public and private sectors and to its usage at the sphere of providing public goods. Introductory chapter is oriented on characteristics, classification and possible backup of public goods. Next chapter is focused on PPP method - history of PPP projects, their characteristics, pros and cons. Legal aspect of PPP projects, their institutional backup and their comparison with public tenders are also included in the thesis. Analytical part shows various ways of implementation of PPP projects in the Czech Republic -- e.g. Accomodation capacities and parking of The Central Military Hospital in Prague and Aquapark in Olomouc, as representatives of local autonomies. Questionnaire research of locally autonomous units with the objective of finding out the level of knowledge and access to PPP projects, is another important part of this thesis. The objective of the thesis is the evaluation of a partnership of public and private sectors, as one of possible solutions of providing public goods.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertação PRODEMA - Cristiane Lucena Barbosa - 2015.pdf: 3698823 bytes, checksum: 75f87a2cf311eb40b8967c9c4e02de70 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-11 / Este trabalho teve por objetivo geral analisar ações da chamada agenda verde (uma classe de atividades, as quais se referem a assuntos como preservação de florestas e biodiversidade) realizadas pelos atores públicos e privados em prol da conservação da Mata Atlântica no território do Complexo Industrial Portuário Governador Eraldo Gueiros – Suape, empreendimento este localizado na zona costeira sul do estado de Pernambuco. Os objetivos específicos foram: identificar ações em prol da conservação ambiental realizadas pelo ator público CIPS, averiguar quais atores privados (empresas instaladas no Complexo) que possuem ações de Responsabilidade Social para a conservação da Mata Atlântica no território do CIPS, identificar a presença/participação da sociedade ou organização do Terceiro Setor nessas ações e sugerir ações para conservação da Mata Atlântica como forma do CIPS alcançar um desenvolvimento mais sustentável. Trata-se de uma pesquisa exploratória, do tipo qualitativa que utiliza dados quantitativos para fins descritivos, e apoiada em dados primários e secundários, sendo a pesquisa documental de grande importância, uma vez que são dados recentes na história e com pouca publicidade. O CIPS foi a área de estudo selecionada por apresentar a influência dos três setores da economia, além de possuir a maior área protegida por lei de preservação de remanescente de Mata Atlântica ao Norte do Rio São Francisco protegida por lei, com aproximadamente 9 mil hectares, na contramão de ter em sua história diversos fatos relacionados à não concordância de movimentos ambientalistas da instalação do Complexo devido a necessidade de serem realizadas supressões de vegetação nativa, aterramento de áreas de mangue, entre outros. Concluiu-se que o território onde hoje está implantado o CIPS já passou por diversas formatações, desde a utilização para o cultivo de cana de açúcar, assentamentos rurais, o que afetou diretamente o ambiente natural da região. O Governo, em específico a empresa Suape, tem realizados ações em prol da conservação, mas isso ocorre ao mesmo tempo que permite diversas supressões de vegetação nativa. Das 102 empresas instaladas no Complexo, 68% delas apresentam preocupações ambientais declaradas, no entanto apenas duas delas reportaram realizar ações para a conservação da Mata Atlântica da Zona de Proteção Ecológica (ZPEc) do CIPS. A participação das organizações da sociedade civil praticamente é inexistente. Os resultados demonstraram que, apesar da grande importância e visibilidade internacional do empreendimento que é o CIPS, as ações na área ambiental não têm tido grandes avanços e são pouco estimuladas para que sejam realizadas pelas empresas instaladas no Complexo e pelas organizações da sociedade civil. Recomenda-se que seja posto em prática as recomendações do novo Plano Diretor de Suape, que se prossiga com a criação do Instituto Suape, que as empresas desenvolvam mais ações na área da ZPEc, e que a participação da sociedade seja estimulada para ajudar nas ações de conservação da Mata Atlântica. / The aim of this work was to analyze actions of the green agenda (an activity class, which refer to issues such as preserving forests and biodiversity) carried out by public and private actors for the conservation of the Atlantic Forest in the territory of the Industrial Port Complex Governador Eraldo Gueiros - Suape, an undertaking that located in the southern coastal zone of the state of Pernambuco. The specific objectives were to identify actions in support of environmental conservation carried out by the public actor CIPS, determine which private actors (companies located in the complex) that have social responsibility actions for the conservation of the Atlantic Forest in the territory of CIPS, identify the presence / participation the company or organization of the third sector in these actions and suggest actions for the conservation of the Atlantic Forest as a way of CIPS achieve a more sustainable development. It is an exploratory research, qualitative kind that uses quantitative data for descriptive purposes, and supported by primary and secondary data, and the documentary research of great importance, since they are recent data in history and with little publicity. The CIPS was selected study area to present the influence of the three sectors of the economy, in addition to having the largest protected area by law remaining to preserve the Atlantic Forest north of the Rio São Francisco protected by law, with about 9000 hectares, against to take his story several facts related to the non-compliance of environmental movements of complex installation due to the need to be held deletions of native vegetation, ground mangrove areas, among others. It was concluded that the territory which is now deployed CIPS has gone through various formats, from use for sugar cane cultivation, rural settlements, which directly affect the natural environment of the region. The Government, in particular the Suape company, has carried out actions to conserve, but it occurs at the same time allowing several deletions of native vegetation. Of the 102 companies located in the complex, 68% of them have declared environmental concerns, however only two of them reported perform actions for the conservation of Atlantic Forest Ecological Protection Zone (ZPEc) of CIPS. The participation of civil society organizations is practically non-existent. The results showed that, despite the great importance and international visibility of the project which is the CIPS, the actions in the environmental area have not been great strides and are hardly stimulated to be carried out by companies located in the complex and by civil society. It is recommended to be put in place the recommendations of the new Master Plan for Suape, which streamline the creation of Suape Institute, companies to develop more actions in the area of ZPEc, and that the participation of society are encouraged to help in the actions of Conservation of the Atlantic.

abstract: One of the theoretical cores and values of good governance is the accountability of public employees, where the citizens expect the public employees to maintain professional standards, avoid conflicts of interest, respect the principles of fair and impartial treatment, and use public money wisely. However, are these unique moral standards to which only public employees are held? The dissertation seeks to examine how the public evaluates the unethical behaviors of public and private leaders differently to better understand the sources of public and private sector differences in the public’s normative evaluations. Based on a randomized online vignette experiment with 1,569 respondents residing in the United States collected in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform, the dissertation confirms that public authorities face different levels of public tolerance relative to business managers. More specifically, the unethical behaviors of a public manager are less likely to be tolerated than the same misconduct of a business manager, while ethical offenses of elected officials are least likely to be tolerated by the public. However, the public is relatively much less tolerant of public managers’ and elected officials’ petty violations relative to business managers than they do for more egregious violations of public authorities. The dissertation further finds that public evaluations are contingent upon the respondents’ work experience in different sectors. Individuals working in government are more likely to be tolerant of petty unethical behaviors, regardless of whom they evaluate, but they become much less tolerant of public managers’ and elected officials’ grand ethical violations. The longer individuals work in for-profit organizations, the less likely they are to tolerate public authorities’ petty violations of organizational rules while consistently being more accepting of the unethical behaviors of business managers. Using an experimental design, the dissertation finds the importance of a fair and legitimate use of tax money in the public’s moral evaluations of public leadership and further discusses the potential sources of public skepticism of the public sector. Furthermore, the public and private sector comparison provides theoretical and practical implications for ethics reform in the era of collaborative governance. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Public Administration and Policy 2020

In cities we generally distinguish between public and private space. This thesis tackles the distinction between public and private property and searches for the urban commons where property is determined by collective action and thus creates a greater spatial justice. A case study analyzes the Urban Garden Project “Trädgård på spåret” in Stockholm and shows how unconventional arrangements can generate a lively place in the urban fabric. The final discussion interprets the concept of urban commons and contemplates its classification within the planning discipline. / I städer skiljer vi generellt mellan offentligt och privat utrymme. Denna avhandlingförsöker att nyansera den enkla distinktionen mellan offentlig och privat mark ochgår på jakt efter de urbana allmänningar (urban commons) vilkas ägande bestämsav kollektivism och som skapar spatiell rättvisa (spatial justice). En fallstudieanalyserar Urban Garden-projektet «Trädgård på Spåret» i Stockholm och visarhur okonventionella arrangemang har gett upphov till en livlig plats, som går långtutöver trädgårdens traditionella gränser. I den avslutande diskussionen tolkar vibegreppet urbana allmänningar och betraktar dess placering i planeringsämnet. / In Städten unterscheiden wir generell zwischen öffentlichem und privatem Raum.Diese Thesis versucht die simple Unterscheidung zwischen öffentlichem undprivatem Grundeigentum aufzubrechen und begibt sich auf die Suche nach der‚urbanen Allmende’ (urban commons) in der Eigentum durch Kollektivismus bestimmtwird und somit räumliche Gerechtigkeit (spatial justice) schafft. Eine Fallstudieanalysiert das urbane Gartenprojekt „Trädgård på spåret“ in Stockholm und zeigtauf wie durch unkonventionelle Regelungen ein lebhafter Ort entstanden ist, dersich in die Stadt verwurzelt hat und weit über die Grenzen des Gärtners hinausgeht.In der abschließenden Diskussion wird der Begriff der urbanen Allmendeinterpretiert und dessen Einordnung in die Planungsdisziplin betrachtet. / Urban Form and Social Behavior

The media have a critical role to play in informing and changing public opinion on climate change, "the defining human development issue of our generation" (United Nations Development Programme for Human Development Report, 2008, 1). Developing countries are most likely to suffer the worst effects of climate change, yet few studies exist on climate change communication in the media in developing countries and in particular in Africa. Studies on climate change communication in the media focus mostly on the print media and on developed countries, yet in Africa, more people consume their news through television or radio. So far, no study has examined television news reports of a United Nations Conference of the Parties in Africa. This study examines the way four South African television news stations (three public and one private) framed climate change news over six weeks: two weeks before, during and after the 17th United Nations Conferences of the Parties in Durban (COP17) South Africa, 2011/11/07 – 2012/01/07. Coding words were used to identify climate change stories in the main newscasts on SABC 1, 2, 3 and e.tv each day. These were transcribed and in the cases of SABC1 and 2 broadcasts translated from three indigenous languages (Afrikaans, isiXhosa and isiZulu) into English. A quantitative, descriptive statistical analysis looked at the occurrence of four primary frames in these climate change stories, using binary coding questions to identify each frame. The results in the binary coding sheets were analysed by using spreadsheets. The coding questions were also used to identify and explore secondary and additional frames, which were then illustrated in graphs. Differences in framing between public and private television were also illustrated in graphs (for example local versus foreign stories, time devoted to stories, depth of stories and occurrence of climate change stories with a human angle). Secondly, a qualitative inductive analysis of text and visual material looked at links between frames (for example the link between extreme weather conditions and human action using cause and impact visuals, as well as the link between news image and source – the framing of the politician, the activist and the scientist.) This section also looked at emotionally anchoring images of hope and guilt and the role of banners, posters and maps in climate change stories on television. Though other studies claim that coverage of the summit was "almost invisible" (Finlay 2012, 16) this study shows very high coverage on especially SABC 1 (isiXhosa and isiZulu). The following hypotheses were confirmed: the political/economic frame will dominate on all stations during COP17 but the ecological frame will be highest on at least some stations in the weeks after COP17. The ethics frame will be dominated by the secondary "Inequality/Justice" frame while the "Religion" frame will be of minimal importance. When activists set the agenda, the motivational frame will hardly feature. Climate change scepticism will receive little attention on South African television. Local (South African and African) stories will be more prominent on public television than on private television.

Since the end of the Cold War, the Department of Defense (DoD) has been challenged to formulate and make strategic decisions, especially in areas related to the Department's "business operations." Strategic decisions are those that focus on setting long-term organizational direction. This has proven difficult because a rather simplistic (and somewhat comforting) DoD organizational orientation toward an "either/or" or "us versus them" decision-making mindset that was once ubiquitous and appropriate, given the nature of political and military threats, has been hard to shake. This study reviews a particular manifestation of this dilemma: the decision-making arrangements associated with the provision of military depot maintenance services. An historical review of this topic shows a mixture of problems, progress, and promise. A strategic decision-making approach that draws upon Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith's Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is proposed to improve the situation. It addresses key problems identified in the analysis and rests upon an approach to strategic decision making that is politically rational in nature. This approach, called a Strategic Improvement Agenda, is offered as a potential foil to the "us versus them" orientation. / Ph. D.

This thesis examines various aspects of English and Canadian charity law in terms of their relationship with the contested categories of ‘public law’ and ‘private law’. It argues that the law of charities can be regarded as a hybrid legal discipline in both a general or categorical sense, and in the context-specific or functional sense that both the conditions for obtaining charitable status, and the regulation of the conduct of charities and their trustees, are continually being adjusted in such a way as to maintain in a broad sense a functional equilibrium between individual project pursuit and collective project pursuit; that is to say, an equilibrium between the protection of the autonomy of property-owning individuals to control and direct their own wealth, and the furtherance of competing public interests or visions of the good. After sketching out the history and nature of the common law charities tradition and the contemporary English and Canadian regulatory regimes, the thesis pursues its analytical and comparative hypotheses by examining two important features of English and Canadian charity law, the public benefit doctrine and the rules of locus standi that determine who may seek relief for misapplications of charity property. It then addresses the comparatively modern issue of the governmental co-optation of charitable resources, considering to what extent modern pressures associated with the retrenchment of welfare states threaten to destabilize charity law’s hybrid equilibrium in EW and Canada. The thesis then turns to the emerging phenomenon of social enterprise, arguing that shifts to charity law’s functional equilibrium may explain the emergence of this ‘post-charitable’ legal form. The thesis concludes with some observations on the hybrid nature of the law of charities, and on the different functional equilibriums between individual project pursuit and collective project pursuit that have been reached by English and Canadian charity law.

Darbo tikslas. Įvertinti burnos higienistų, dirbančių Kauno miesto privačiose ir viešosiose odontologijos klinikose, darbo organizavimo ypatumus. Tyrimo metodika. Atlikta momentinė anoniminė Kauno miesto burnos higienistų anketinė apklausa. Išdalinta 70 anketų: 56 dirbantiems privačiose ir 14 viešosiose odontologijos klinikose. Anketas užpildė ir grąžino 45 privačiose (atsako dažnis 80,3 proc.) ir 14 viešosiose (atsako dažnis 100 proc.) klinikose dirbantys burnos higienistai. Statistinė duomenų analizė buvo atliekama naudojant SPSS 17 for Windows programinį paketą. Hipotezėms tikrinti buvo naudojama aprašomoji statistika bei Chi kvadrato (χ2 ), t ir Mann-Whitney kriterijai. Rezultatai. Dažniausiai odontologijos klinikose atliekamos burnos higienistų procedūros: burnos higienos mokymas (100 proc.), dantų akmenų šalinimas ultragarsu (100 proc.) bei rankiniais instrumentais (93,2 proc.). Dažniausiai aptarnaujami jauni (19-35 metų) bei vidutinio amžiaus (36-55 metų) pacientai. Rečiausiai – vaikai ar paaugliai iki 18 metų (22,8 proc.), neįgalūs pacientai. Privačiose įstaigose dirbantys burnos higienistai dažniau nei viešosiose dirba dar ir odontologo asistentu (atitinkamai 62,2 ir 21,4 proc.). Viešose įstaigose dažniau nei privačiose dirba mokslinį darbą (14,3 proc) arba dėstytojauja (2,4 proc.). Beveik absoliuti dauguma (93,2 proc.) respondentų linkę manyti, kad geriau burnos higienistu dirbti privačioje įstaigoje dėl geresnių darbo sąlygų, darbo vietos organizavimo (87,3 ir 63,6... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Aim of the study. To evaluate the dental hygienists work organization peculiarities in private and public dental clinics in Kaunas city. Methods. An anonymous questionnaire have been completed in private and public dental clinics in Kaunas city. In total 70 questionnaires were distributed to employed dental hygienists: 56 in private and 14 in public dental clinics in Kaunas. Questionnaires filled out and returned: 45 dental hygienists employed in private (response rate 80,3 %) and 14 in public dental clinics (response rate 100 %). The statistical analysis was performed using SPSS version 17 for Windows statistical software . Hypotheses were checked using descriptive statistics and Chi square (χ2), t and Mann-Whitney criterions. Results. Most frequently dental hygienists performed oral treatments in dental clinics such as oral hygiene education and training (100 %), scaling (100 %) and calculus removal using hand instruments (93.2 % ). Most dental hygienist served young (19-35 years) and middle-aged (36-55 years) patients. Least - working with children or adolescents under 18 years old (22.8 %), with disabled patients. Dental hygienists in private dental institutions more than in public works as a dental assistant (respectively 62.2 and 21.4 %) Meanwhile, in public dental institutions dental hygienist more than in private work in research work (14.3% ) and as academics (2.4 %). Majority (93.2%) of respondents tend to believe that is better to work as a dental hygienist in... [to full text]

v AJ The thesis addresses funding of public universities in the Czech Republic. It describes, analyzes and assesses the current method of university funding from public and other resources and points out the most important issues in this area. A part of the study is devoted to the topic of introducing tuition fees as one of the possible methods of students' participation on the university's funding. The study provides arguments for and against such measure and proposes a solution on how to apply it in the Czech Republic. In relation to that, the focus is also posed on financial aid to students, specifically student savings for education and student loans on tuition fees without which the introduction of such measure is difficult to imagine. Criteria which the system providing loans to students should account for are considered and further other possible alternatives of the system are introduced and assessed. The final section presents several possibilities from which public universities may obtain funding beyond the basic framework of the state budget.