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作者：Gutierrez, Ricardo A.
摘要：This article brings to the fore the role of experts as policy agents by analyzing the water management reform in three Brazilian states. Seeking to contribute to the recent ideational turn in political science, it contends that in studying the emergence and implementation of new policy ideas, more attention must be paid to the role of experts as policy innovators and to the interplay between experts' knowledge brokerage and the influence of party politics. To examine the interaction between kn...
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作者：Boin, Arjen; Kuipers, Sanneke; Steenbergen, Marco
作者单位：Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University; Utrecht University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University; University of Bern
摘要：Why do some public organizations grow old and others die young? Since Herbert Kaufman first posed this question, considerable research has been devoted to answering it. The findings of that research suggest that the design of new public organizations affects, to a significant degree, their survival chances. In this article, we test whether and how design factors affected the durability of the so-called New Deal organizations initiated under FDR's first term. Our findings confirm that design fa...
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作者：Loorbach, Derk
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：This article introduces transition management as a new governance approach for sustainable development. Sustainable development is used here as a common notion referring to those persistent problems in (Western industrialized) societies that can only be dealt with on the very long term (decades or more) through specific types of network and decision-making processes. Based on interdisciplinary research into complex processes of long term, structural change in society, basic tenets for complexi...
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作者：Barzelay, Michael; Gallego, Raquel
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Autonomous University of Barcelona
摘要：In recent studies of public management reform in France, Italy, and Spain inspired by historical institutionalism, the Napoleonic tradition is cast as a causal factor whose overwhelming strength explains how these countries' reforms proceed and finish. This symposium pursues the same research interest in the politics of public management reform and goal of understanding how reforms begin, proceed, and finish in these countries. However, the features of this research project include (1) a focus...
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作者：Worthy, Ben
作者单位：University of London; University College London
摘要：This article examines the impact of Britain's Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000 on British central government. The article identifies six objectives for FOI in the United Kingdom and then examines to what extent FOI has met them, briefly comparing the United Kingdom with similar legislation in Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. It concludes that FOI has achieved the core objectives of increasing transparency and accountability, though the latter only in particular circumstances, ...
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作者：Bhatia, Vandna
作者单位：Carleton University
摘要：This article challenges the conventional wisdom that health programs have been largely insulated from welfare state retrenchment. Health care entitlements have in fact been transformed and diminished, albeit in more subtle ways. Employing rhetorical discursive constructions about the nature of social rights, and capitalizing on passive policy drift, reformists have succeeded in altering the right to health care away from a set of collective obligations and toward the competing claims of indivi...
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作者：Moloney, Kim
作者单位：University West Indies Mona Jamaica; University West Indies Saint Augustine; American University
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作者：Gallego, Raquel; Barzelay, Michael
作者单位：Autonomous University of Barcelona; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This case study focuses on extending research knowledge about the politics of public management policymaking in Spain. The case involves legislating to change politically sensitive features of the central government and administration. The study explains such analytically significant event conditions as: an agenda-setting process that made a policy issue of the formal, structural attributes of state administration, an alternative-specification process that proceeded without complication, and a...
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作者：Came, Timothy; Campbell, Colin
作者单位：University of British Columbia; University of Sydney
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作者：Maor, Moshe
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：When do regulatory agencies expand, following the emergence of novel technologies? This article presents a verbal model that suggests that a regulator is most likely to announce that it has statutory authority to regulate a novel technology when its reputation is at stake. This is most likely to occur when (1) new information becomes available to the regulator regarding the seriousness of the anticipated harm of a novel technology, or (2) a rival regulator attempts to formalize its regulatory ...
