dc.contributor.advisor	Goulart, Pedro Veiga Vaz da Silva
dc.contributor.author	Alle, Bruno Azevedo
dc.date.accessioned	2013-07-16T11:07:03Z
dc.date.available	2013-07-16T11:07:03Z
dc.date.issued	2013-04-04
dc.description	Dissertação de Mestrado em Gestão e Políticas Públicas	por
dc.description.abstract	The European crisis and the subsequent Portuguese financial bailout put social policies under heavy pressure as the current debate focus mostly on budgetary cuts. Contrasting with this tendency, the social services from the Portuguese police have been expanding its services through a centralized service provision policy, starting in Lisbon but with plans to expand it to other cities during the next five years. Whether these services should be provided centralised or decentralised is a matter to be researched as how to use the limited public resources more effectively is now more important than ever. This thesis contributes in this direction by evaluating if there is a rationale for a centralized social policy delivery, if these services are demanded by the users themselves and what is the best alternative to follow. We find that while its beneficiaries state their interest in this kind of service provision they do not seem to use it, which is quite puzzling. The results show that most of them are unaware of the center’s existence and even the majority that is aware does not use it. After applying a regression analysis we find that the major reasons relate to distance issues, particularly when the potential users take more than half an hour to reach it.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/5866
dc.language.iso	por	por
dc.peerreviewed	no	por
dc.publisher	Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas	por
dc.subject	Social policy	en
dc.subject	Public policy evaluation;	en
dc.subject	Welfare State	en
dc.title	An evaluation of centralized provision of social services: the case of Lisbon’s police department	por
dc.type	master thesis
dspace.entity.type	Publication
rcaap.rights	openAccess	por
rcaap.type	masterThesis	por

An evaluation of centralized provision of social services: the case of Lisbon’s police department

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