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作者：Groeneveld, Sandra; Bakker, Vincent; Schmidt, Eduard
作者单位：Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University
摘要：Despite efforts to increase gender diversity and equality worldwide, women are still underrepresented in leadership positions in public bureaucracies. This article speaks to the debate on how organizational context, more specifically organizational decline, may influence gender representation in such leadership positions. Based on role congruity theory and glass cliff theory this article empirically examines whether and how excessive workforce reductions are associated with changes in the repr...
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作者：Clausen, Tommy Hoyvarde; Demircioglu, Mehmet Akif; Alsos, Gry A.
作者单位：Nord University; National University of Singapore
摘要：The public sector is under pressure to provide new public services with increasingly scarce resources. In response, practitioners and academics have called for more innovation in the public sector. Our understanding of sources of innovation within public sector organizations, however, is inadequate. Motivated by this gap, we develop a conceptual model of how push and pull sources enable innovation within public sector organizations. Key to our theory is that push and pull sources of innovation...
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作者：Ansell, Christopher; Miura, Satoshi
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Nagoya University
摘要：Although not as eye-catching as their business counterparts, many public and private institutions are currently experimenting with using platforms as a strategy of governance. Governance platforms are now being constructed by a wide array of actors at different geographical scales and across a wide range of issue areas. Although often enabled by digital technology, governance platforms fundamentally embody a new organizing logic to achieve distributed participation and mobilization. While priv...
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作者：Matthews, Felicity
作者单位：University of Sheffield
摘要：While executive patronage brings important benefits in terms of governance and control, political influence over the selection of agency staff entails a democratic dilemma: how should the exercise of executive patronage be controlled? This article addresses this critical issue, examining Westminster's system of pre-appointment scrutiny by analysing an original database that encompasses every pre-appointment hearing held between 2007 and 2018. The article demonstrates that although the conduct ...
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作者：Knill, Christoph; Steinebach, Yves; Fernandez-i-Marin, Xavier
作者单位：University of Munich
摘要：In this article, we assess the changing role of the European Commission in EU environmental policy. In line with organizational theory, we expect organizational hypocrisy, namely a decoupling of talk, decisions, and actions, to characterize the Commission's behaviour in the aftermath of the financial and economic crisis. We analyse the extent to which the Commission (1) promotes environmental matters and concepts in press releases and public statements; (2) proposes new and stricter environmen...
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作者：Considine, Mark; O'Sullivan, Siohban; McGann, Michael; Nguyen, Phuc
作者单位：University of Melbourne; University of New South Wales Sydney; Maynooth University; Maynooth University; La Trobe University
摘要：Market instruments are increasingly used to drive innovation and efficiency in public services. Meanwhile, many governments recognize the need for services to be more personalized and 'user-centred'. This was a key aim of major welfare-to-work reforms in both the UK and Australia over the past decade, which sought to achieve personalization through increasing service delivery by for-profit providers, contracted via Payment-by-Results. Drawing on three surveys of frontline staff, we show the im...
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作者：Triantafillou, Peter
作者单位：Roskilde University
摘要：Supreme audit institutions (SAIs) are fundamental institutions in liberal democracies as they enable control of the exercise of state power. In order to maintain this function, SAIs must enjoy a high level of independence. Moreover, SAIs are increasingly expected to be also relevant for government and the execution of its policies by way of performance auditing. This article examines how and why the performance auditing of the Danish SAI pursues independence and relevance. It is argued that, i...
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作者：Lenschow, Andrea; Burns, Charlotte; Zito, Anthony
作者单位：University Osnabruck; University of Sheffield; Newcastle University - UK
摘要：This symposium assesses the trajectory of European Union (EU) environmental policy and integration in light of the rising pressure for policy dismantling and disintegration. This introductory article discusses the literature and the mixed evidence of EU environmental policy dismantling. Building on the three symposium articles, we investigate the role of the European Commission in this process, evaluating its role as a general 'motor of integration' and more specifically as an environmental po...
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作者：Heikkila, Tanya; Weible, Christopher M.; Gerlak, Andrea K.
作者单位：Children's Hospital Colorado; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; University of Colorado Denver; University of Arizona
摘要：Researchers struggle to understand the relationship between science and policy positions, especially the complicated interplay among the various factors that might affect the acceptance or rejection of scientific information. This article presents a typology that simplifies and guides research linking scientific information to policy positions. We use the typology to examine how characteristics of both scientific information and policy actors' existing policy positions affect the likelihood of...
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作者：Wynen, Jan; Kleizen, Bjorn; Verhoest, Koen; Laegreid, Per; Rolland, Vidar
作者单位：University of Antwerp; University of Antwerp; University of Bergen
摘要：An important rationale for the creation of semi-autonomous agencies is to create some distance between politics and administration. As such, agencies are expected to shield policy implementation from the daily concerns of political life. However, political actors and politically controlled ministries still influence agencies in various intended and unintended ways. This article focuses on intensive long-term series of structural reforms and how they may undermine the original design philosophy...
