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作者:Lascoumes, Pierre; Le Gales, Patrick
作者单位:Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
摘要:Public policy instrumentation and its choice of tools and modes of operation are treated either as a kind of evidence (governing means making regulations, taxing, entering into contracts, communicating, etc.) or as if the questions it raises (the properties of instruments, justifications for choosing them, their applicability, etc.) are part of a rationality of methods without any autonomous meaning. This paper aims to explain the significance of a political sociology approach to public policy...
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作者:Wallner, Jennifer
作者单位:University of Toronto
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作者:Hood, Christopher
作者单位:University of Oxford
摘要:This article reflects on the mixture of ideology, technological change, and interests that have made government instrumentalities central to the analysis of public policy over the two decades since the publication of the author's Tools of Government in 1983, and distinguishes three main strains Of analysis of policy instruments: analytic approaches that count forms of institutions as tools, analytic approaches that focus on the politics of tool selection, and generic approaches that aim to be ...
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作者:Bezes, Philippe
作者单位:Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
摘要:The article addresses internal and hidden politics of changes in bureaucracies by focusing on the introduction and use of policy instruments as institutional change without radical or explicit shifts in administrative systems. Beneath public administrative reforms, it examines the use of low-profile instruments characterized by their technical and goal-oriented dimension but also by their low visibility to external actors due to the high complexity of their commensurating purpose and the autom...
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作者:Ritchie, Bryan
作者单位:Michigan State University
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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...