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作者：Hendriks, Carolyn M.
作者单位：Australian National University
摘要：This article explores how political representation is enacted in governance networks, where interdependent actors from government, business, and civil society coproduce public policy. A combined dramaturgical and discourse analysis considers how representation is staged, performed, and articulated in a case study of recent Dutch energy reforms. The findings suggest that networks produce a kind of democratic soup where actors and institutions enact alternative meanings of representation that si...
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作者：Emrich-Bakenova, Saule
作者单位：KIMEP University
摘要：Although Kazakhstan's civil service reforms have the explicit objective of depoliticizing administrative personnel, they have had limited success in achieving that end. Contrary to the formal objective, they make the worlds of political and administrative executives all but indistinguishable. A considerable gap between formal rules and their informal understanding creates loose boundaries of permitted behavior and allows discretionary enforcement and influence. The failure to reach the stated ...
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作者：Flinders, Matthew
作者单位：University of Sheffield
摘要：Delegation is a central concept in the study of governance and public policy. The modern state could not function without delegation because it provides a structural and esoteric capacity beyond the cognitive and physical limits of politicians. This article focuses on the role of ministers in making appointments to quasi-autonomous agencies, boards, and commissions in the United Kingdom. Research undertaken within the Cabinet Office reveals a pattern of shrinking reach and diluted permeation i...
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作者：Hysing, Erik
作者单位：Orebro University
摘要：From government to governance is a grand story line about the changing role of the state, which has had a great impact upon researchers and practitioners. This article is an empirical assessment of this story line. Three critical dimensions are elaborated into indicators of government and governance: governing styles and instruments, public-private relationships, and policy levels. These indicators are used to assess the role of the state in environmental governing using Swedish forestry and t...
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作者：Christou, George; Simpson, Seamus
作者单位：University of Warwick; Manchester Metropolitan University
摘要：Much academic work on governance in recent years has explored responses that states have made to sectors of the economy, usually historically well rooted nationally, that have been subject to globalizing pressures. Less work exists on responses that are being made to new parts of the economy emerging outside the nation state with inherently global characteristics. The Internet-and specifically its naming and addressing system-provides an example of how the state has aimed to assert public inte...
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作者：Green-Pedersen, Christoffer; Wolfe, Michelle
作者单位：Aarhus University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：The European countries have surpassed the United States with regard to comprehensive and stringent environmental regulation. This policy pattern has become very visible in the international debate about reduction of CO2 emissions. From a comparative public policy perspective, the recent difference is interesting because it restates the question about policy consequences of political institutions. This article addresses this theoretical question from the perspective of policy agenda-setting the...
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作者：Bakir, Caner
作者单位：Koc University
摘要：Recent studies on institutional theory and the public policy field called for efforts to pry open the black box of institutional and policy change. This article offers a response to this call. It demonstrates that historical and discursive institutionalist approaches are complementary to explain how and why institutional change occurs. In addition, it shows how these approaches can add value to and benefit from the public policy and administration fields that seek to explain policy change and ...
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作者：Egeberg, Morten; Trondal, Jarle
作者单位：University of Oslo
摘要：Previous studies have shown that agencification tends to reduce political control within a government portfolio. However, doubts have been raised as regards to the robustness of these findings. In this article we document that agency officials pay significantly less attention to signals from executive politicians than their counterparts within ministerial (cabinet-level) departments. This finding holds when we control for variation in tasks, the political salience of issue areas, and officials...
