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Extracção Óptica de Relógio para Redes de Elevado Débito
Orlando Frazão; Pedro Tavares; António F. Cunha; L. Botelho Ribeiro; J. Ferreira da RochaThis article reports a modelling and experimental work on all-optical clock extraction for high bit-rate systems using self-pulsation mechanisms in semiconductor lasers at 1300 nm. External cavity DFB semiconductor lasers have been used, of both bulk and multiple quantum-well (MQW) types. ; Este artigo descreve um trabalho de modelização e realização pr...
So close, yet so far away? the effects of city size, density, and growth on loc...
Tavares, António F.; Carr, JeredRecent studies in the U.S. context have suggested that political participation is a function of the size and concentration of a city’s population. Most of this research focuses on the idea that there is an optimal size and concentration of population that favors active political participation in terms of a higher propensity to vote in local elections, contact local officials, and attend community meetings. The ...
Municipal service delivery : the role of transaction costs in the choice betwee...
Rodrigues, Miguel; Tavares, António F.; Araújo, Joaquim FilipeService provision by local governments can be delivered using in-house bureaucracies, private firms, and partnerships with other governments or the not-for-profit sector. This production decision has been a major focus of discussion among scholars, practitioners and political agents for the last quarter of a century. The transaction costs framework is an important tool to analyse decisions regarding the product...
The economic and political impacts of top-down territorial reforms: the case of...
Tavares, António F.; Rodrigues, Miguel; Magalhães, Catarina; Carr, JeredThe crisis of the sovereign debt forced the Portuguese government to reach out for joint financial help from the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) stresses the need for a major redefinition of the Portuguese local government system. Currently, the Portuguese local government is structured in two tiers (308 municipalities and 4259...
Municipal service delivery: the role of transaction costs in the choice between...
Rodrigues, Miguel; Tavares, António F.; Araújo, J. FilipeService provision by local governments can be delivered using in-house bureaucracies, private firms, and partnerships with other governments or the not-for-profit sector. This production decision has been a major focus of discussion among scholars, practitioners and political agents for the last quarter of a century. The transaction costs framework is an important tool to analyse decisions regarding the product...
The economic and political impacts of top-down territorial reforms: the case of...
Tavares, António F.; Rodrigues, Miguel; Magalhães, Catarina; Carr, JeredThe crisis of the sovereign debt forced the Portuguese government to reach out for joint financial help from the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) stresses the need for a major redefinition of the Portuguese local government system. Currently, the Portuguese local government is structured in two tiers (308 municipalities and 4259...
The implementation of social policy through the nonprofit sector: a political m...
Tavares, António F.; Rodrigues, MiguelThe uneven geographic distribution of nonprofit organizations has been an issue of debate in the implementation of social policy since the 1980s. This paper proposes a political market framework to test an integrated explanation for the geographic distribution of nonprofits. Government failure theory attributes this variation to the distribution of social problems, so that nonprofit organizations are more preva...
New forms of local governance : a theoretical and empirical analysis of municip...
Tavares, António F.; Camões, Pedro J.What factors influence local governments to rely on municipal corporations to provide public services? This article seeks to identify which factors lead local governments to use local corporate public sector organizations, particularly municipal corporations, for service delivery. Based on the ideas of the neo-institutionalism approach to public administration developed by Murray Horn (1995), we argue that loca...
Portuguese local government: exploring alternatives of service delivery
Rodrigues, Miguel; Araújo, J. Filipe; Tavares, António F.Nowadays, Local Governments have a heavy burden of dealing with much of the services with added value to citizens. Their competences kept on growing at the expenses of central government responsibilities’ cope with all these challenges, local governments use several mechanisms to deliver public services to their citizens. In this paper we analyze New Public Management (NPM), and post-NPM as mains reform paradig...
Municipal service delivery: the role of transaction costs in the choice between...
Rodrigues, Miguel; Araújo, Filipe; Tavares, António F.Currently, due to their level of proximity and periodic transfers of competences from the national government, local governments are responsible for many services consumed by citizens. Their competences are growing and nowadays include water supply, promotion of regional development, solid waste collection, emergency management, health care, education, land use management, among many others. To cope with all th...
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