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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：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：Corbett, Anne
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：A watershed in the politics of public management in France was crossed in 2001, when the French president and prime minister signed off a law initiated by the French Parliament to reform the planning and control of public expenditure. This legislation, the Organic Law on Laws of Finance of August 1, 2001 (generally known as the LOLF), requires public authorities to adopt performance-oriented ideas and public management approaches, and seeks to rebalance executive and parliamentary powers over ...
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作者：Schakel, Arjan H.
作者单位：University of Edinburgh
摘要：Decentralization of policy provision is omnipresent yet we are not able to sufficiently account for the extent of this phenomenon. The decentralization theorem explains the decentralization of policy provision as a trade-off between heterogenous preferences, interjurisdictional spillovers (externalities), and economies of scale. Empirical tests of the theorem have been hampered by a measurement problem on the independent as well as on the dependent variable. This article tackles these problems...
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作者：Thompson, Fred
作者单位：Willamette University
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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：This concluding article in the symposium develops generalizing arguments about the politics of public management reform in France, Italy, and Spain, by drawing out implications of the case studies presented in the three preceding articles. Some of these implications hold that established research arguments about politics of public management reform in the same cultural and geographical area require considerable qualification and reexamination. Some other implications of these case studies take...
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作者：Moran, Michael
作者单位：University of Manchester
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作者：Schrefler, Lorna
作者单位：University of Exeter
摘要：The normative justification for delegation to independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) is that they operate by using technical analysis and expertise rather than political considerations in their decision-making processes. Although delegation has been discussed as a design principle, systematic evidence on the conditions under which IRAs make use of scientific knowledge and how is still scarce. Scientific knowledge can be used to achieve instrumental learning, but also to seek legitimacy from th...
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作者：Mele, Valentina
摘要：The literature on the politics of public management reform in Italy broadly contends that the country's legalistic administrative tradition suppresses reform. This article questions and qualifies this line of argument on the basis of a newly reported case of public management reform that endured for more than 10 years. The study tracks and explains the emergence of the policy issue of government innovation and its persistence on the specialized policy agenda of the Ministry for Public Administ...
