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作者：Radaelli, CM
作者单位：University of Bradford
摘要：This article examines public policy in the European Union (EU) by drawing upon the framework of policy transfer, which has been recently refined by comparativists, and the concept of isomorphism developed within or organizational theory. Three case studies-namely, the single currency, tax policy and media ownership policy-are discussed and compared with the aim of assessing the potential of isomorphism for the analysis of policy diffusion. The author argues that European institutions which hav...
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作者：Reich, S
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：Contending conceptions of the new institutionalism claim to offer approaches that can develop generable social scientific theories of behaviour. This article challenges that proposition, arguing that contingencies exist in which specific forms of institutionalism are best suited to addressing particular types of questions. Viewed through the prism of public policy, if develops the argument that policy dictates politics. It suggests that four variants of institutionalism (historical, new econom...
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作者：Pierson, P
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：Political scientists have paid much more attention to the effects of institutions than to issues of institutional origins and change. One result has been a marked tendency to fall back on implicit or explicit functional accounts, in which the effects of institutions explain the presence of those institutions. Institutional effects may indeed provide part of such an explanation. Yet the plausibility of functional accounts depends upon either a set of favorable conditions at the design stage or ...
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作者：Kam, C
作者单位：University of Rochester
摘要：A strict interpretation of the doctrine of individual ministerial responsibility requires that the minister alone bear public responsibility for her department's actions. Critics charge that it is not sensible to hold a minister solely responsible for departmental errors when government departments are so large and complex, and senior bureaucrats so powerful in their own right; senior bureaucrats should be made directly accountable to Parliament. The paper uses a game theoretic model to show t...
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作者：Roberts, A
作者单位：Queens University - Canada
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作者：Ansell, C
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Drawing together work in comparative politics, public administration, organization theory, and economic sociology, this article describes a distinctive form of modern polity-the networked polity. In the networked polity, states are strongly embedded in society and pursue their objectives by operating through networks of societal associations. Both state agencies and societal associations take the form of network or organic organizations-decentralized, team-based organizations with strong later...
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作者：Smith, R
作者单位：University of New South Wales Sydney
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作者：Raadschelders, JCN
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
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作者：Roberts, A
作者单位：Queens University - Canada
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作者：Smith, R
作者单位：University of New South Wales Sydney
