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作者：Painter, M
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong
摘要：This article compares patterns and outcomes of administrative reform in four countries: Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. It focuses on the supply side, that is, on reform implementation. It is assumed that bureaucrats, upon whom implementation depends, have an interest in controlling the process. A distinction is made between two types of bureaucratic systems-autonomous and instrumental-according to structural features that increase the potential to block reforms. Four possible patte...
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作者：Grindle, MS
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：The good governance agenda is unrealistically long and growing longer over time. Among the multitude of governance reforms that must be done to encourage development and reduce poverty, there is little guidance about what's essential and what's not, what should come first and what should follow, what can be achieved in the short term and what can only be achieved over the longer term, what is feasible and what is not. If more attention is given to sorting out these questions, good enough gover...
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作者：Wong, W; Welch, E
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要：Under the global pressure of information technology, the adoption of web-based technologies in public administration has created a new government-and-citizen interface. However, whether e-government will unambiguously lead to a more transparent, interactive, open and hence, accountable, government remains a central question. Applying a framework of global pressure effects on bureaucratic change, this paper conducts an empirical study on website openness and accountability in fourteen countries...
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作者：Alcock, P
作者单位：University of Birmingham
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作者：Oliver, MJ; Pemberton, H
摘要：Despite considerable interest in the means by which policy learning occurs, and in how it is that the framework of policy may be subject to radical change, the black box of economic policy making remains surprisingly murky. This article utilizes Peter Hall's concept of social learning to develop a more sophisticated model of policy learning; one in which paradigm failure does not necessarily lead to wholesale paradigm replacement, and in which an administrative battle of ideas may be just as i...
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作者：Van der Veen, RJ
作者单位：University of Twente
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作者：Alcock, P
作者单位：University of Birmingham
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作者：Eising, R
作者单位：Fern University Hagen
摘要：The article analyzes how business interests responded to European integration. It draws on survey data of eight hundred German, French, British, and European Union (EU) trade associations as well as thirty-four large firms. The argument is that the multilevel governance approach to European integration captures the realities of EU interest intermediation better than neofunctionalism and intergovernmentalism. The article suggests that the strategies of interest organizations depend mainly on th...
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作者：House, JD; McGrath, K
作者单位：Memorial University Newfoundland
摘要：Since the mid-1980s, the economy of the Republic of Ireland has displayed a remarkable turnaround. Its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown at a faster rate than any developed country in the world. The government's deficit has been cut severely and the debt-to-GDP ration sharply reduced. Average incomes have risen significantly, and the unemployment rate reduced dramatically. This article documents these changes. Its main purpose, however, is to provide a plausible explanation for the Irish ...
