Rating the Rankings: Assessing International Rankings of Public Service Performance by Hood, C, Dixon, R, Beeston, C

Ratings and rankings of public service performance: Special issue introduction by Dixon, R, Hood, C, Jones, L

Rating the rankings: Assessing international rankings of public service performance by Hood, C, Dixon, R, Beeston, C

“…This paper documents the growth of international rankings of governance and public services and seeks to contribute to a second-generation approach to the analysis of this phenomenon. …”

Rating the rankings: assessing international rankings of public service performance by Hood, C, Dixon, R, Beeston, C

“…This paper documents the growth of international rankings of governance and public services and seeks to contribute to a second-generation approach to the analysis of this phenomenon. …”

Resilience in public service partnerships: evidence from the UK Life Chances Fund by FitzGerald, C, Hameed, T, Rosenbach, F, Macdonald, JR, Dixon, R

“…Implications for an increasingly networked and partnership-based public service sector are discussed.…”

Rallying together—The rationale for and structure of collaborative practice in England by Fitzgerald, C, Rosenbach, F, Hameed, T, Dixon, R, Blundell, J

“…This article explores the increasing adoption of collaborative arrangements within local authorities and asks whether they signal a new era in public service delivery—one characterized by collaborative governance and power-sharing within communities. …”

Walking the contractual tightrope: a transaction cost economics perspective on social impact bonds by Fitzgerald, C, Carter, E, Dixon, R, Airoldi, M

“…<p>Transaction cost economics is applied in this paper to social impact bonds to explore how public service commissioners could improve outcomes-based contracts. …”

Public Spending in Hard Times by Hood, C, Emmerson, C, Dixon, R

“…Economic and Social Research Council Public Services Programme…”