-
作者：Nohrstedt, Daniel
摘要：This study applies the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) to developments in Swedish nuclear energy policy in the 1970s and 80s. In an effort to contribute to the refinement and debate regarding the generalizability of ACF theory, the objective is to assess the utility of ACF assumptions when applied in this case. The study explores hypotheses about advocacy coalition stability and examines the motivations explaining policy change in the wake of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident and the 1986...
-
作者：Yackee, Jason Webb; Yackee, Susan Webb
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：We provide the first empirical assessment of the ossification thesis, the widely accepted notion that procedural constraints on federal agencies have greatly hindered the ability of those agencies to formulate policy through notice and comment rule-making. Using data that cover all active federal rule-writing agencies from 1983 to 2006, our results largely disconfirm the ossification thesis. Agencies appear readily able to issue a sizeable number of rules and to do so relatively quickly. Indee...
-
作者：Heinrich, Carolyn J.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：This study examines public management challenges faced by educational agencies that are required to set up a market for providing choice in supplemental educational services (SES) for students in underperforming schools and to hold nongovernmental providers accountable for their performance in increasing student achievement. The operations and performance of SES providers in a large urban school district, as well as how their performance in increasing student achievement relates to their marke...
-
作者：Fenn, Paul; Gray, Alastair; Rickman, Neil; Vencappa, Dev; Rivero, Oliver; Lotti, Emanuela
作者单位：University of Nottingham; University of Oxford; University of Surrey
摘要：The safety of patients is an important responsibility of health care providers, and significant compensation costs may arise if providers are negligent. A widely debated option involves liability for such compensation being placed with the hospital rather than the individual clinician, a system known as enterprise liability. In the United States, partial adoption of enterprise liability and proposals for its universal introduction have accompanied high-profile malpractice insurance crises in t...
-
作者：van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; de Jong, Gjalt
作者单位：University of Groningen; University of Antwerp
摘要：To date, quantitative assessments of the evolution of national rules have only rarely been conducted, leaving many questions ill-understood and unaddressed, particularly as to the features of rule stock evolution patterns. Can such patterns be traced, and if so, can the underlying causal mechanisms be identified? This article will address these questions. The premise is that forces endogenous to the rule system, inherent to any population of national rules, together with the demographic charac...
-
作者：Brodkin, Evelyn Z.; Majmundar, Malay
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：Organizations operate as the gateway to public benefits. They are formally authorized to adjudicate claims, in the process interpreting and applying eligibility rules. Beyond their designated role, they also operate as informal gatekeepers, developing modes of operation that affect the ease or difficulty of claiming. Operational practices-both formally prescribed and informally created-can add hidden costs to claiming to the extent that they are complicated, confusing, or cumbersome. Individua...
-
作者：Bertelli, Anthony M.; Smith, Craig R.
作者单位：University of Southern California; University of Manchester; University of Arizona
摘要：Our argument connects the management of relational contracts with the management of policy networks. Thinking about bilateral, horizontal extensions of governmental authority in a state of agents can be enhanced, we claim, because of the rich offerings of relational contracting theory. We review key results from economic theories of relational contracting, provide public sector examples, and present a set of testable propositions that suggest a rationale for the creation and expansion of polic...
-
作者：Skelcher, Chris
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：The evolution of new forms of public governance in Europe presents a challenge to methods of democratic policy making, accountability, and control that are predicated on a theory of representative democracy. The article discusses the evolution of supranational institutions and considers empirical data on the democratic performance of governance networks in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe. it concludes that bureaucratic actors in the European Union and in subnational governance netwo...
-
作者：Yang, Kaifeng; Kassekert, Anthony
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：Recent public management literature has emphasized the influence of public sector characteristics on employee attitudes, behaviors, and performance. This article assesses how recent management reforms, such as contracting out, civil service overhaul (also known as Title 5 exemptions or removal of civil service protections), and managing for results are associated with employee job satisfaction in the federal government. Using the Federal Human Capital Survey 2006 dataset, this article finds th...
-
作者：Sosin, Michael R.; Smith, Steven Rathgeb; Hilton, Timothy; Jordan, Lucy P.
作者单位：University of Chicago; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Northern Michigan University; University of St Andrews
摘要：Many doubts have been expressed about the capacity of states to administer federally supported social service programs. This article relies on institutional theory, punctuated equilibrium theory, and evidence from two states to analyze the way states administer the programs in times of fiscal crisis. The particular context is the fiscal crisis of the early 2000s in substance abuse programs. The analysis suggest that, during the crisis, state administrative authorities and the providers they fu...
