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作者：McGuinn, Patrick
作者单位：Drew University
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作者：Genieys, William; Smyrl, Marc
作者单位：Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); University of Denver
摘要：This article combines the methods of institutionalist analysis and the sociology of elites to look inside the black box of the French state. We identify key groups of policymakers in the social policy sector and track both their policy preferences and the results of their efforts from the mid-1980s through the late 1990s. Our conclusion is that budgetary and ideological challenges to existing policies led to the consolidation within the Ministry of Social Affairs of what we label a programmati...
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作者：Zohlnhoefer, Reimut; Obinger, Herbert; Wolf, Frieder
作者单位：Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg; University of Bremen
摘要：The 1990s have witnessed unprecedented attempts at privatizing state-owned enterprises in virtually all OECD democracies. This contribution analyzes the extent to which the partisan control of the government can account for the differences in the privatization proceeds raised by EU and OECD countries between 1990 and 2000. It turns out that privatizations are part of a process of economic liberalization in previously highly regulated economies as well as a reaction to the fiscal policy challen...
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作者：Quaglia, Lucia
作者单位：University of Sussex
摘要：National frameworks for banking and, more generally, financial supervision in various European countries have undergone significant changes in the last decade or so. What explains these supervisory reforms? This work addresses this question by examining the recent reforms in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy, engaging in a structured, focused comparison, mainly using process tracing and adopting an analytical framework articulated across three levels of analysis. It is argued that while i...
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作者：Moynihan, Donald P.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：As governments search for policy tools to deliver public services, two choices-hierarchy or network-are portrayed as stark alternatives. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has adopted a practitioner-based innovation known as the Incident Command System (ICS) that assumes that crises require a network of responders, but that these networks should be managed by a hierarchy. While the ICS illustrates the potential for mixing hierarchies and networks, it was mandated by policymakers willing ...
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作者：McGuinn, Patrick
作者单位：Drew University
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作者：Goyer, Michael
作者单位：University of Warwick
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作者：Klitgaard, Michael Baggesen
作者单位：University of Southern Denmark; University of Southern Denmark
摘要：School vouchers might seem a natural feature of the liberal welfare model of the U.S. and American society generally. However, for social democratic welfare states in Scandinavia, school vouchers would seem to be a contradiction. Nevertheless, school vouchers have faced severe resistance in the USA, and the program has so far not been adopted as a national educational reform, although sporadic and limited state-level developments can be observed. In sweden, however, the social democratic welfa...
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作者：McConnell, Allan
作者单位：University of Sydney
摘要：The aim of this article is to understand why, in the aftermath of the 1998 Sydney water contamination crisis, policy and institutional reform was comparatively minor-despite intense scrutiny and criticism of the frame-work of water policy in New South Wales (NSW). The article should be of serious interest to scholars interested in crisis and policy change, rather than simply those with a particular interest in water policy in Australia. It frames the Sydney case as a disconfirming one but find...
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作者：Longo, Francisco
作者单位：Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE)
