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作者:Lebovits, Hannah
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington
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作者:Cohen, Nissim; Aviram, Neomi F.
作者单位:University of Haifa
摘要:Linking street-level bureaucracy with policy entrepreneurship is a new, ongoing trend in the literature. We claim that in various cases one must consider street-level policy entrepreneurship in order to fully understand policy processes. Therefore, we call on public policy and administration scholars to devote more resources to this important link. The symposium will promote our understanding of this still underresearched area. We will explore both theoretically and empirically how bureaucrats...
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作者:Rietig, Katharina
作者单位:Newcastle University - UK
摘要:This article breaks new ground by revisiting the Multiple Streams Framework as central public policy theory and modifying it to take into account multilevel reinforcing dynamics. This is important as it allows policy change to be explained more accurately given the empirical interdependencies between policy-making on the national, regional (e.g., European) and international levels, which so far have not been sufficiently taken into account by traditional public policy theories. It process-trac...
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作者:Osborne, Stephen P.; Nasi, Greta; Powell, Madeline
作者单位:University of Edinburgh; Bocconi University; University of York - UK
摘要:This paper argues for the need to go beyond appreciating co-production as a stand-alone process. Rather it offers a holistic model of value creation for public services, by integrating insights from both the public administration and management and the service management and marketing literatures. The components of this model are the loci, elements, and processes of value creation. Co-production is located within this model but only as one process, not as the pre-eminent one. The implications ...
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作者:Geddes, Marc
作者单位:University of Edinburgh
摘要:A wide-ranging literature has explored the relationship between research, knowledge and policy. However, legislatures have often been overlooked in this research. While some studies have looked at 'who has access', the literature on how parliaments seek to engage with knowledge claims is particularly scarce. This article addresses this gap through a case study of UK select committees. By adopting an interpretive lens, the article explores how MPs and officials make sense of evidence in committ...
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作者:Siddiki, Saba; Frantz, Christopher K.
作者单位:Syracuse University; Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)
摘要:This Symposium features research that engages an institutional analysis approach, called the Institutional Grammar. Institutional analysis is the study of rules, norms, and strategies (e.g., public policies, organizational bylaws, social conventions) that govern social systems and organizations. The Institutional Grammar is an approach for comprehensively capturing the design of institutions; in particular, for describing the language of directives that comprise them. We posit that the engagem...
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作者:Blom-Hansen, Jens; Baekgaard, Martin; Serritzlew, Soren
作者单位:Aarhus University
摘要:Studies of bureaucracy have been very concerned about whether the bureaucracy exploits its informational advantage vis-a-vis politicians to influence policy decisions. Yet, little theorizing has been undertaken about how such influence takes place. We identify and test three mechanisms that must be at work in order for policy information to function as a vehicle for political influence of bureaucrats. Using data from politicians and bureaucrats in five different political systems and survey ex...
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作者:Ainsworth, Susan
作者单位:University of Melbourne
摘要:Sustainability is now among the hegemonic discourses used by government to construct problems and policy beyond the environmental domain. Detached from its origins, it functions as an 'empty signifier' whose flexibility and ambiguity can be harnessed in policy-making and political debate. This article uses an Australian case study to show how sustainability discourse was mobilized to justify reversing a previous decision and raise the age at which the publicly funded aged pension could be acce...
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作者:Lee, Don S.; Park, Soonae
作者单位:University of Nottingham; Seoul National University (SNU)
摘要:The question of who controls the bureaucracy has been widely debated in the political science and public administration literatures. However, to whom bureaucrats are responsive and to what extent are relatively unknown, particularly outside the US. To understand how organizational behaviour changes according to external political environments, we leverage a unique setting, that of the 2016 presidential impeachment in South Korea. We analyse original experimental data from more than 1,000 civil...
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作者:Acciai, Claudia; Capano, Giliberto
作者单位:Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa; University of Bologna
摘要:This article uses a systematic review of the main literature in the field to shed light on different operationalizations of the main classifications of policy instruments. Although the literature offers a large number of instrument taxonomies, many of them act as theoretical guidelines rather than operational concepts that can help to disentangle the different features of governing actions. This article provides a review of the most frequently used policy instrument typologies and, through a m...