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The purpose of this study is to measure the contribution of three technological devices for the communication of active transparency data: official website, transparency and open data portals in the Spanish autonomous communities for the period 2013-2020. The existence of minimum information to be provided based on Law 19/2013 was checked, verifying a significant global increase in performance in the first years, which it freezes in the last years. The contribution of each initiative has presented an irregular evolution: slight and positive for the open data portals, great progress for the transparency portals and residual contribution for the official website. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With more than 5,000 annual contracts and an estimated total budget of 738.3 million euros invested in institutional advertising, the public sector is the main advertiser in Spain. In its tenders, one of the aspects with the greatest impact on the award is the economic offer. The application of current regulations to ten tenders is analyzed, with special attention to abnormal low bids. The results show that the tenders favor aggressive economic offers. The best technical bid does not always win, and the impact of abnormally low bids as such is reduced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Defence public policies have a number of structural conditioning factors constantly determining the development and management of this policy area. These conditionings in the case of Spain have some distinctive features, from cultural to industrial issues, that are needed to be known in order to understand the evolution of a policy as peculiar as the defence is. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Public Administration, by its own idiosyncrasy, is the perfect breeding ground for the proliferation of cases of workplace harassment. It produces a large part of the mobbing cases in our country. Percentage surely increased given the huge proliferation of cases of corruption that have plagued Spain for the last fifteen years. A serious collective problem which, in addition to the disastrous consequences for the victims who suffer it (is responsible for 20% of suicides), is an economic catastrophe for the State, endangering the functioning of their own institutions. In this context, the objective of this work is to verify the real functionality of the crime of workplace harassment of art. 173.1.2 CP and the judicial praxis in the matter. In short, check whether something has been achieved or, as always, we have not gone beyond pure symbolism and things remain the same (or worse). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article contributes to our understanding of the autonomy, control and management of public agencies in Spain, based on managers’ perceptions of their financial and operational capacities as well as their mechanisms of accountability. Its findings derive from the opinions of senior officials of Spanish public agencies, gathered through a survey conducted between July and November 2013. The survey is modeled on an international collaborative project (COBRA) that aims to analyze the processes of agencification among public administrations in different countries. The results of this study suggest that managers of Spanish public agencies enjoy a high level of autonomy. The results additionally show that agencies perceived as more autonomous tend to be more accountable towards their respective parent ministries. The study thus conclude that the implementation of the public agency model has not reduced the level of accountability and transparency of public administration in Spain, but, on the contrary, has contributed to encouraging the emergence of a new public manager profile more concerned about the importance of being accountable for its activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the institutionalization of policy analysis in Spain from 1975 to 2010 from a historical-bibliometric perspective. This study is based on a database of 209 articles (out of 3 098) published in five of the main Spanish scientific journals of sociology and political science. This process of diffusion was not homogeneous in terms of geographic spreading, research topics, analytical methods and theories. Finally, this investigation stresses the duality of this scientific field: on one hand, a part of Spanish policy analysis remains a parochial phenomenon; on the other, a set of authors participate actively to the international debates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to analyze how the public administration of museums came to be questioned and eventually transformed, especially with regard to the use of instrumental bodies. As a result of this analysis applied to Catalan museums, we have observed that such procedures have led to these museums becoming subject--to various degrees--to private law. Although these changes were presumably made in order to achieve greater quality, efficacy and efficiency in the services offered by these centres, it is also clear that these changes are the result of particular ideological approaches associated with certain views regarding public administration and not a response to the individual needs of each museum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two complementary studies, in which experts, technicians and citizens are consulted regarding communication campaigns and environmental management conducted by the City Council of Madrid. A mixed method is developed (qualitative and quantitative techniques) with interviews, educational campaigns and review of citizens' complaints to the municipality (N = 932). The results highlight some problems within local management and communication that maintain environmental conflicts. The conclusions seek to increase the value of environmental education and their different strategies, consistent in complementarity with other mechanisms inherent to public administration (management, legislation, investment). Some proposals are delivered to improve the management of resources and increase efficiency by the development of educational campaigns and communication with the citizens of this government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the influence of elections on local government management from the perspective of political budget cycles. The objective is to analyse whether there is budgetary manipulation with the aim of influencing voters' electoral decisions and which budgetary expenses are chosen to carry out this manipulation. We also study the effect of these policies of manipulation on the debt of administrations. The results show evidence of political budget cycles in Valencia's local governments although their influence is not very great. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to study the potential of applying a very standardized data collection and analysis methodology, such as the Grounded Theory, to those documents or written texts that unveil the meaning (both apparent and latent) of the discourses contained therein. Clear examples of such material are the norms and legislation issued by the Civil Service. With the aim of analyzing this process, this article is based on the theoretical and methodological framework of the Grounded Theory. This then allows us to show how all research applying that methodology represents a cyclical and dynamic process led by six verbs indicating action: Assign Compare, Promote, Link, Integrate and Explain. Finally, in order to specify this theory, the article shows, as an example, the steps taken in a research project where absolutely all the elements contained in that methodology were applied [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The application of principles and rules of private law to the activity and organization of the public administration is an event that has permeated various legal systems by virtue of the assumption and reformulation of certain purposes and models of the state management. However, one could say that the "escaping of administrative law" phenomenon par excellence, belongs to the Spanish law because of the intensity it had reached, as well as its correlative impact on the administrative doctrine. This is the reason why this abstract investigates its legal background, motivations and doctrinal positions. From here on, there is a contrast between the phenomenon of the escaping with the peculiarities of the Colombian legal system. Thus, they argue that although Colombia has not been exempt of remissions to private law, in any case, it has not had the same depth and force as the Spanish law. Thus, on account of the same dynamic of our decentralized administration as for the doctrinal differences of our country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study aims to analyse the degree of importance civil servants in the Spanish Public Administration (SPA) attach to a set of twenty professional competencies, as well as to compare the level of managers' self-assessed competency and that of a reference population of managers. For this purpose, a sample of 613 public servants in the SPA consisting of lower-ranking officials and managers was chosen and a survey methodology was used for data collection and analysis. The results indicate first that the most relevant competencies for both groups are self-confidence and self-assurance, communication, and teamwork. Secondly, the level of relevance attached by lower-ranking officials is in many cases greater than the level attached by managers. Finally, managers in the SPA show a self-assessed level of competency far below that of the reference population of managers. This set of results provides valuable information for the creation of a competency-based Comprehensive Human Resources Integrated Management System in the SPA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a growing number of open data initiatives that allow citizens to reuse public data sets through specifically designed applications. This paper presents an overview of these initiatives and their development in Spain, analyzing the open data sets available and the functions and features of the applications developed for this purpose. The information source used in this work is the portal http://datos.gob.es, of national scope which organizes and manages the public information catalog of Spanish administrations. This source offers information about these data sets and the applications and utilities developed. The analysis shows a diverse distribution of these open data sets that requires grouping by metacategories for its study and analysis. The level of development of the applications seems low but it may be due to the incipience on freely available data. In any case, the data sets related to infrastructures (especially transports) appear to be the main object of the applications developed so far in Spain in this context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The VFM audit has emerged as an increasingly influential force in the public sector. Nevertheless, as in new public management, vfm audit developments show differences among countries. This paper studies vfm auditing in Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom regional audit institutions. The aim is to evaluate the level of development of vfm auditing in these countries at regional space and to explain the factors that may create differences and similarities in those developments. Using actor-network theory, we describe two models of vfm audit development: the anglo-saxon model for the United Kingdom, based on the private sector, and the continental model, for Germany and Spain, based on a clear distinction between the public and the private sectors. The public administration style and the focus of public sector reforms have had a great influence on the final configuration of VFM auditing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of the research is the webometric analysis of the main Spanish central Government sites concerning environmental issues. In this line, topography, structure, interaction, and meta-description of the contents are studied so that results can be compared with the Mexican environment websites. To achieve this, the Mbot webcrawler tool - which analyzes the site extent and dimension, the website ranking, the meta-descriptors ratio by page, the frequency analysis of the description terms and some statistical tables to estimate the sample - has been used in this academic. Because of results, several recommendations to improve the search engines indexing and remove bad practices that limit the access to public information as well as the information retrieval have been developed. It can be outlined the interplay between the Spanish environment Websites and its European counterpart, the number of unpopular information sources, syndication channels that enable public environmental information monitoring and, lastly, the ideal range of frequency of occurrence for the terms used in the meta-descriptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper, which is part of a parallel study between Mexico and Spain, analyzes the environmental information requests that are made by users in the Spanish public sector bodies. Furthermore, a webcrawler, which was designed for this purpose, analyzes many parameters of the information displayed on the website of 30 environmental public bodies such as the number of documents, providers, types of environmental information, document formats ... Results highlight the use of metatags instead of metadata and descriptor analysis shows a lack of relationship between the requests and the descriptors which are used to identify such information on the Web. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research is a pioneer description and analysis of telephone welfare needs services in Spain for children and the elderly. The results show different level of services among different regions: non-existent, often this attention is subcontracted and in other occasions it is delegated explicitly in private non-profit entities. Furthermore, the study has brought to light some overlapping and lack of coverage, both in the services and in the time of attention that are offered by these telephones of public and private initiative. Finally, the telephone is stated as a consolidated suitable technology and of full force for the social attention to the elderly and children, for whom one of the main motives for resorting to these services constituted is loneliness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the variables of nationality, generation and social class, the article analyzes representations of citizenship within the sphere of public services. By combining three logics -- that of recognition, that of autonomy and that of merit --, discourses break the essence of the classical notion of citizenship by modulating different accounts of practices and experiences regarding what it means to be a citizen. Through the analysis of the discourses produced from different social conditions in focus groups, it is possible to understand the main elements of value associated with the concept of citizenship. The progress of strategies that reward individual merit supersedes the logic of universal recognition, with important effects on the most vulnerable groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The constitutional regulation of the Spanish ombudsman, as well as the functions performed by the latter has generally been appraised in a positive way. This not withstanding should a Constitutional reform be undertaken, having in mind the strengthening of the Welfare (social) state, it may be advisable to reinforce the ombudsman as a warrant of social, economic rights. With this end in view, we suggest to undertake some changes in article 54 of our Constitution. These changes should concern the functions which it performs, its proceedings and its election. And last but not least, the necessary cooperation by authorities and civil servants, as well as the aftermath in case they break their duty to provide the ombudsman with the information required by it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work contains an analysis of the contentious-administrative Jurisdiction in Spain, taking as starting point the profound revision produced in the judicial system by the approval of the 1978 Spanish Constitution. Some of the most significant aspects of the current regulation, contained in Law 29/1998, dated July 13th are taken into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to analyse the degree of control to which public sector foundations are subjected through external auditing, in order to determine whether monitoring of public management in these institutions is being conducted that will prevent the mistrust being generated by the administration's increasing use of this legal concept. The study carried out for the period 2001/2007 reveals, on the one hand, that these institutions are audited annually, as Spain's National Audit Office (Intervención General de la Administración del Estado) complies with its obligation to audit all the large-scale foundations, and, on the other hand, that most foundations obtain an unqualified audit opinion. However, it would be appropriate to extend the auditing to those which are not currently audited and improve the management of audited ones which have been given a qualified audit opinion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the reuse of public sector information and presents the results of research conducted in the Spanish public sector on how public information is produced, disseminated and commercialized. The study was conducted in response to Spain's Law 37/2007 and European Parliament Directive 2003/98/CE which set a framework for the reuse of public sector information.

After a general introduction to concepts such as eGovernment, eDemocracy and eGovernance, a brief reflection on the situation of the Spanish public administration in relation to the internet is offered. The opportunities that information and communication technologies offer to carry out deep reforms in administrative procedures is discussed. If we do not seize these opportunities we risk "fossilizing" the administration, making only superficial changes that do not make the needed improvements in efficiency and the services to businesses and citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The entry into force of the Spanish act about digital access (Ley 11/2007, BOE n. 150, de 23/6/2007) has produced a decisive impact on the development of records management projects in organizations. The Entitat Autònoma del Diari Oficial i de Publicacions, the body that publishes Diari Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya (DOGC) -the official journal of the Catalan government-, started its editing process adaptation to the electronic environment in 2009, based on Llei 2/2007 (DOGC, 5/6/2007), an act that defines the digital format as the only official format for DOGC. Two key projects in this process are presented: adoption and adaptation of EuroVoc thesaurus as an indexation tool, and the design of the new digital cycle of DOGC production and publication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The public participation processes that are taking place in Spain as a result of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) constitute an important step forward toward the democratization of water management in Spain. Grounded in document analysis and exploratory interviews, this article highlights some of their strengths and weaknesses. In general, the most problematic aspects of these processes are related to their lack of credibility for some potential participants, as well the persistence of an institutional setup for water decision making that strongly favors the long-standing relationship between Basin Management Agencies and traditional water users. The article offers some concluding remarks on the need for a reformed institutional design for the management of water resources, according to the idea of governance expressed by the WFD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Copyright of Revista Enfoques: Ciencia Política y Administración Pública is the property of Universidad Central de Chile and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

This paper analyzes collaboration strategies for the provision of services at local level in the municipalities of Spain, United States and Norway. It focuses on the importance of these strategies and how they are carried out in the cases mentioned, as well as the role that various factors play in such strategies. For this purpose, attention is paid to elements of the social, economic and political dynamics of the municipality, but also to the institutional design elements which shape the position that local authorities occupy in the intergovernmental system in each case. This requires an analytical approach at two different levels, which we call meso and micro respectively. The meso level concerns institutional design elements that operate in the municipality as a determining factor in the collaboration models, whilst the micro level deals with those elements located in local political society that determine the local authorities' opportunities for carrying out their strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last twenty years, Spanish Public Administration has been implementing different telephone helpline services aimed at groups which, according to certain circumstances, are identified as especially vulnerable. This paper describes and compares the public telephone services aimed at women and elderly people in the Autonomous regions. The results of this descriptive study, which refers to 2007, show that the Public Administration doesn't provide an equal range as regards the attention offered to the specific requests made by each social group. These social groups have been analysed according to the public visibility of the problems which affect them. Furthermore, the research has revealed the resistance offered by certain institutions when it comes to providing public information. The research also shows the lack of homogeneity as regards the collection of data which provides information about user profiles and how these services are used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the new context of the knowledge society, an essential aim for spatial planning is to establish the means to ensure the availability of the information needed to make decisions as far as development planning is concerned. Access to this type of information is a necessary tool for both public and private institutions, as well as for economic and social agents, to make decisions more easily. This paper offers a study related to the planning of the Centro de Documentación e Información Territorial de Aragón (CDITA) (Territorial Documentation and Information Centre of Aragón), which belongs to the Spatial Planning Section of Aragón's Regional Government. It presents its executive summary, vision, mission, strategic and operational objectives and SWOT analysis. Subsequently, this paper details the actions carried out by the CDITA to achieve its objective of diffusing territorial information, paying special attention to the publication of its contents on the Aragón's Regional Government Official Web Portal. Finally, future challenges and perspectives will be put forth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From 2002 to 2004, a survey was conducted in the Basque General Administration among 2,171 employees across all job levels (44.98% of the total), as part of a job analysis which included a questionnaire about the relevance or criticality of tasks carried out. All workers surveyed chose and stated the tasks they performed rating them 1-7 according to the frequency, duration, implications and difficulty. The result yielded 36,636 tasks. Considering the likely mutual relationship of these four dimensions and with a view to reducing the number of variables without a loss of information, an exploratory factor analysis using principal components method and varimax rotation was carried out. It revealed a two-factor factorial solution accounting for 78.761% of the variance. These two factors are complexity and frequency and will enable future workers to produce a quicker answer to the questionnaire and to get a better interpretation out of it. Future implications of results are finally discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows the development of the Navarran Applied Psychology Institute, founded in 1961, currently become the Navarran Institute of Public Administration, and its links with psychology in Navarre. By the end of the 60's, the Institute focused on vocational orientation, personnel selection, psychiatric assistance, research and promotion of psychology. 1) Then the Unit of Educational Psychology was established. During the academic year 1962-1963, a project of psychological explorations in primary education schools was set. In 1981, the Service of Psycho-pedagogical Orientation was founded to assist students of primary and secondary education and vocational training. 2) The Unit of Clinical Psychology was established in 1975 to help people suffering behavioral maladjustment. Psycho-diagnosis, personal orientation and psychotherapy were provided. Patients could be referred by any department of the County Council or treated directly upon request. 3) The Unit of Work Psychology is the best consolidated branch in the Institute. Owing to the great development of the Educational branch it was decided that it reported to the Educational Counselor in 1983. Similarly, by the end of the 70's the Unit of Clinical Psychology should report to the Health Service Counselor. The Institute of Psychology became a real advisor for the Government of Navarre. The knowledge and techniques of organizational psychology were applied to the public administrations. The implementation of personnel selection in the processes of application for public administration jobs started in 1973. In 1977 a Training Unit was set in 1977. In 1985, the Civil Servant School was founded. In 1984, a longitudinal study of work climate and satisfaction of civil servants was initiated. In 1987, a project about performance assessment was signed after reaching the consensus of unions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers a case study about content administration and management support for institutional portals. It describes the structure and workings of a shared web editing system that has been implemented for the official portal of the Education and Culture Section of Murcia's Regional Government. The article offers general instructions and advice for excellent system performance. It highlights the benefits of decentralized web editing as a method for supplying high quality content in civil service portals and recommends considering an institutional portal to be an added public service in public administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper treats on the administrative revision of the judicial transactions in which a public administration is part in relation with an opinion of the Consultative Counsel of Galicia that negatively informed the procedure initiated by a City council with such purpose. The legal nature of the administrative transactions and the effectiveness of the judicial writs that approve or accredit the judicial transactions are analysed, to determine if it can constitute an unsalvable obstacle to the administrative revision of those. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At a time when reforms designed to improve the integrity of public institutions have become fashionable, this article defends the viewpoint that administrative ethics cannot be founded exclusively on instrumental values. Principles that express a framework of what is correct in order to guide values such as efficiency or effectiveness are essential. The role of lists of values intended to be used as ethical guidelines is also analysed and the conclusion reached, based on empirical evidence, is that they are plainly lacking. Lastly, the institutional variable is introduced into the study of ethical conduct as practised by civil servants. This demonstrates the importance of the logic of what is proper and the generation of good sense in order to understand the choices made by civil servants when faced with moral dilemmas. The article concludes by using an official survey for analysing underlying culture in the Spanish public service and its effects on the perception of moral problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The usage of standardised metadata in governmental web resources serves to facilitate data interoperability and data integration as well as to enhance information retrieval. The Dublin Core metadata model and the methods for metadata interchange (such as html, rdf and web content management systems) are analysed. A methodology to generate standardised metadata in e-government services is presented. Finally, the main initiatives for metadata application in e-government services are described, in particular GILS, MIReG and e-GMS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]