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作者：Kruyen, Peter M.; van Genugten, Marieke
作者单位：Radboud University Nijmegen
摘要：In current thinking about public service improvement, civil servant creativity plays an important role. Using the results of 43 semi-structured interviews, we assessed the degree to which our theoretical knowledge about creativity-based primarily on business research-matches the insights of managers in local government. Respondents considered employee creativity to be important, but-in contrast to the literature-understood creativity as the act of trying out new things to better deal with spec...
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作者：Joosen, Rik; Brandsma, Gijs Jan
作者单位：Utrecht University
摘要：Existing typologies of the European administrative space locate decision-making powers with the European Commission, member state governments, and EU and national agencies, sometimes aided through regulatory networks. This article argues that those typologies are incomplete because they do not take into account the existence of transnational executive bodies. These are public authorities that are responsible for administering and implementing EU policies across multiple member states, that are...
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作者：Morrell, Kevin
作者单位：University of Warwick
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作者：Bertolini, Alessio
作者单位：University of Edinburgh
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作者：Bolleyer, Nicole; Gauja, Anika
作者单位：University of Exeter; University of Sydney
摘要：How does counter-terrorism legislation - enacted in democratic states - impact upon charities, Intentionally or unintentionally? To address this question, we present a new analytical framework that allows us to compare, across established democracies, how charity legislation and counter-terrorism legislation are connected, enabling us to assess how charities' legal environments have changed since 9/11. Comparing legislation across six long-lived democracies (the UK, US, Australia, New Zealand,...
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作者：Sabbagh, Daniel
作者单位：Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po)
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作者：Blauberger, Michael; Schmidt, Susanne K.
作者单位：Salzburg University; University of Bremen
摘要：The European Union (EU) has to reconcile free movement rights with national welfare states. Case law of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has broadened rights to welfare of economically inactive or marginally active EU citizens. Applying the Court's jurisprudence, which is vague and specific at the same time, poses serious challenges for national administrations. Vague criteria for individual assessments have to be translated into mass procedures. And legislative corrections of the case law ...
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作者：Maley, Maria
作者单位：Australian National University
摘要：There are increasing concerns that the line between political and public service roles is becoming blurred, and that political advisers may be politicizing the work of public servants. Underlying this is the fundamental value conflict between responsiveness and impartiality and the challenge of balancing neutral competence and responsive competence in government. In Australia and Canada the norm of impartiality is challenged by the movement of staff between partisan ministers' offices and the ...
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作者：Linos, Elizabeth; Reinhard, Joanne; Ruda, Simon
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：How to increase diversity in the police is an unanswered question that has received significant political and media attention. One area of intervention is the recruitment process itself. This study reports the results of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in a police force that was experiencing a disproportionate drop in minority applicants during one particular test. Drawing on insights from the literatures on stereotype threat, belonging uncertainty and values affirmation exercises, we rede...
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作者：Persson, Thomas; Parker, Charles F.; Widmalm, Sten
作者单位：Uppsala University
摘要：In this article, we investigate whether differences in social trust and impartial public administration have an impact on public confidence in EU crisis management institutions. Our assessment is based on a cross-country comparison using aggregate country-level data of the member states in the European Union. Earlier studies on the EU as a crisis manager have not carefully studied to what extent differences in social trust and administrative culture may or may not matter. Our analysis shows th...
