Balancing fraud analytics with legal requirements: Governance practices and trade-offs in public administrations

Fraud analytics refers to the use of advanced analytics (data mining, big data analysis, or artificial intelligence) to detect fraud. While fraud analytics offers the promise of more efficiency in fighting fraud, it also raises legal challenges related to data protection and administrative law. These legal requirements are well documented but...

Bestuurlijke manie bij prestigeprojecten: van maquette naar mislukking

Prestigeprojecten bieden veel inzicht in de werking van het openbaar bestuur. Vooral prestigieuze stadsprojecten kunnen ons veel leren over wat we willen noemen: ‘bestuurlijke manie’. We signaleren bij dit soort projecten namelijk typische eigenschappen van bestuurlijke manie, te weten extreme uitgelatenheid, overdreven positief zelfbeeld,...

Conceptualizing the Policy Tools of Spatial Planning

While many policy tools can be used to develop spatial plans and implement their goals, there have been very few academic attempts to classify and illustrate the whole range of tools available. This article reviews the different ways in which planning tools have been conceptualized to date and highlights a wide variation in their...

Techno-optimism and policy-pessimism in the public sector big data debate

Despite great potential, high hopes and big promises, the actual impact of big data on the public sector is not always as transformative as the literature would suggest. In this paper, we ascribe this predicament to an overly strong emphasis the current literature places on technical-rational factors at the expense of political decision...

The embedding of the construction client role in dutch municipalities and its effects on professionalism and organisational learning

Municipalities account for a considerable share in the total production of construction work in the Netherlands. Through their commissioning role, public entities can act as a ‘launching customer’ for innovation. New procurement schemes have been and are being installed to improve quality and productivity, reduce risks and enhance sustainability...

Initial Inventory of 3D Cadastre Use Cases in the Caribbean

As argued in many earlier FIG publications, the potential benefits of 3D Cadastre are huge. This is especially true in the Caribbean setting with quite dense urban areas and large and important marine areas, where rights (restrictions and responsibilities; RRRs) in 3D is a prerequisite for the blue economy. The Caribbean with a plethora of 3D...

IT-induced public sector transformation

IT-induced public sector transformation investigates the organizational changes that are undertaken to transform public administrations using information technology (IT). While IT made governments more efficient, it is unclear whether it will also make them more effective in creating public value for citizens and businesses. This study...

Public Leadership Styles: How attitude affects the realization of strategic projects in urban development

This research sets out to study the leadership styles that public development authorities adopt in the process from initiation to realization of strategic projects. In a broad sense the aim of this study is to gain a better understanding in how urban planners convert a vision to delivery of it. In this study the transformation will be referred...

Water Governance and Policy Networks in Indonesia: The challenges of a decade of water sector reformation

In this research an attempt was made to map the Indonesian water policy network through Social Network Analysis (SNA). Furthermore, the role of the distribution of information and knowledge in this (policy) network with respect to its’ capacity to perform well has been investigated. This research has shown that there are there are some...

Building regulatory enforcement regimes: Comparative analysis of private sector involvement in the enforcement of public building regulations

It is often assumed that traditional regulatory regimes centered on governmental action will benefit from greater private sector involvement. And, under the catchy phrase "from government to governance" globally a wide variety of hybrid forms of governance has emerged. However, little empirical insight exists in the actual effects of such...

Getijden van beleid: Omslagpunten in de volkshuisvesting

What can the political-administrative management of a government ministry do in order to bring about a substantial policy change? Public policy is shaped in networks that are characterized by pluriformity of actors, interests, perceptions, and resources, and by mutual instead of unilateral dependence among the actors. Uncertainty is high and...

Mind the Gap: Bridging theories and practice for the organisation of metropolitan public transport

Public transport has to be succesfull to maintain mobility in todays dense urban areas. Many scientific disciplines make contributions on how to achieve that success, with diverse and sometime contradictory recommendations. The thesis shows how policy makers can use the existing recommendations to improve the overall performance of public...