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作者：Grube, Dennis C.; Howard, Cosmo
作者单位：University of Tasmania; Griffith University
摘要：Public servants in Westminster countries are being drawn into the limelight by demands from their political masters that they publicly defend policies. Critics suggest these conditions undermine the capacity and willingness of senior public servants to manage the enduring Westminster tension between serving elected governments and remaining nonpartisan. Interviews with senior officials from Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom challenge this pessimistic view, showing that officials consis...
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作者：Thompson, Fred
作者单位：Willamette University
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作者：Stuenkel, Oliver
作者单位：Getulio Vargas Foundation
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作者：Kettl, Donald F.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：There is a vast increase in the production of policy analysis in government, but behind the rising volume is a deep paradox: We are generating information faster than we are devising strategies for hearing what it tells us and helping policymakers act on it. There are 10 big issues in using numbers for solving policy problems, and they lead to important lessons: Analysts need to speak in a language that policymakers can understand, capture the inevitable ambiguity of analysis without muddying ...
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作者：Richards, David; Smith, Martin J.
作者单位：University of Manchester; University of York - UK
摘要：This article argues that the principle of indivisibility in the relationship between political and administrative elites acted as a central convention of the Westminster system for much of the twentieth century. It explores how in more recent decades this principle has been challenged by the shift to a principal-agent approach. It considers the extent to which this shift diminishes the traditional Westminster model's understanding of the minister-civil servant relationship as one based on a sy...
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作者：Grube, Dennis C.; Howard, Cosmo
作者单位：University of Tasmania; Griffith University
摘要：Is Westminster dying as a useful conceptual encapsulation of a particular system of public administration? Scholarly critiques over the last decade have suggested Westminster civil services are evolving in ways that erode crucial Westminster traditions. Core elements including security of tenure, merit-based selection, non-partisanship, anonymity, and ministerial responsibility are all perceived as in decline or under attack. Influential commentators have proposed concepts such as new politica...
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作者：Hacker, Jacob S.
作者单位：Yale University
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作者：Vaishnav, Milan
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作者：Dommett, Katharine; Maccarthaigh, Muiris; Hardiman, Niamh
作者单位：University of Sheffield; Queens University Belfast; University College Dublin
摘要：Conventional understandings of what the Westminster model implies anticipate reliance on a top-down, hierarchical approach to budgetary accountability, reinforced by a post-New Public Management emphasis on recentralizing administrative capacity. This article, based on a comparative analysis of the experiences of Britain and Ireland, argues that the Westminster model of bureaucratic control and oversight itself has been evolving, hastened in large part due to the global financial crisis. Gover...
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作者：Lindquist, Evert A.; Eichbaum, Chris
作者单位：University of Victoria; Victoria University Wellington
摘要：By 2015 concern had emerged about the trajectory of Canada's Westminster model and the state of democratic governance under successive Harper governments, particularly with respect to transparency and relationships with public servants, which among other things led to the election of the Trudeau government in October 2015. This article compares these developments with the wholesale reform experiences in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. We consider not only the evolving bargains ...
