作者:Hoxha, Julinda
作者单位:Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent University
作者:Mcloughlin, Claire
作者单位:University of Birmingham
摘要:Received wisdom holds that the provision of vital public services necessarily improves the legitimacy of a fragile or conflict-affected state. In practice, however, the relationship between a state's performance in delivering services and its degree of legitimacy is nonlinear. Specifically, this relationship is conditioned by expectations of what the state should provide, subjective assessments of impartiality and distributive justice, the relational aspects of provision, how easy it is to att...
作者:Grube, Dennis
作者单位:Griffith University
摘要:Contemporary public service leaders are no longer the anonymous mandarins of Westminster folklore. Whether giving public speeches to outside organizations or communicating directly with the media, senior public servants are emerging from anonymity to become public actors in their own right. This article undertakes a comparative study across four Westminster jurisdictionsAustralia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdomto examine the formal rules and guidelines that apply to public servant...