2007

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• Accountability in the privatized state AI翻译
  作者：Hodge, Graeme A.; Coghill, Ken
  作者单位：Monash University
  摘要：As well as better efficiency and improved services, privatization has also often promised improved accountability. But how does the empirical evidence on this look and what are the lessons here? This article looks at the notion of accountability and the degree to which privatizing public sector activities might improve or worsen such mechanisms. It then looks specifically at the different systems of accountability existing following three privatization activities in Victoria and compares these...
• Decentralization, local government, and the welfare state AI翻译
  作者：Sellers, Jeffrey M.; Lidstrom, Anders
  作者单位：University of Southern California; Umea University
  摘要：Despite growing interest in decentralized governance, the local government systems that comprise the most common element of decentralization around the world have received little systematic attention. This article, drawing on the first systematic index of decentralization to local government in 21 countries, demonstrates a close relation between Social Democratic welfare states and an intergovernmental infrastructure that in important respects ranks as the most decentralized among advanced ind...
• The American state and social engineering: Policy instruments in affirmative action AI翻译
  作者：King, Desmond
  作者单位：University of Oxford
  摘要：The American state is conventionally depicted as inactive and organizationally weak compared with the state in comparable industrial democracies, and it is sometimes depicted as weak compared with the private sector's capacities to effect change. This interpretation stems from applying an inappropriate Weberian model of stateness. This article examines the way in which measures to implement affirmative have been employed through the policy instruments of quotas to reengineer the divisions betw...
• Innovation and innovators inside government: From institutions to networks AI翻译
  作者：Considine, Mark; Lewis, Jenny M.
  作者单位：University of Melbourne
  摘要：Innovation and innovators inhabit an institutional space, which is partially defined by formal positions and partially by informal networks. This article investigates the role of politicians and bureaucrats in fostering innovation inside government and provides an empirical explanation of who the innovators are, whether this is mostly an attribute of position or role, or mostly an effect of certain forms of networking. The study uses original data collected from 11 municipal governments in Aus...
• Is governance reform a catalyst for development? AI翻译
  作者：Goldsmith, Arthur A.
  作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Boston
  摘要：International development agencies contend developing countries can boost rates Of economic growth by introducing good governance measures. However, close analysis of specific governance reforms and economic turning points in the United States (when it was a developing country), Argentina, Mauritius, and Jamaica suggests that the agencies underestimate the time and political effort required to change governance, and overestimate the economic impact. Counter to optimistic claims about how much ...
• Globalization and the future of the welfare state. AI翻译
  作者：Hicks, Alex
  作者单位：Emory University
• The ideal of public service: Reflections on the higher civil service in Britain AI翻译
  作者：Hunt, Michael
  作者单位：Sheffield Hallam University