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作者：Rice, Deborah
作者单位：Carl von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg
摘要：Service individualization is high on the agenda of active welfare states. Especially for the long-term unemployed and other people with complex problems, individualized employment and social services are seen as a crucial precondition for social and labour market integration. To achieve tailor-made service delivery, welfare states have introduced new governance mechanisms such as client profiling, performance indicators, game-theoretical incentives or institutionalized discretion. However, com...
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作者：Shaw, Richard; Eichbaum, Chris
作者单位：Massey University; Victoria University Wellington
摘要：Recent research on political advisers is characterized by an expansion beyond Westminster and clearer connections with proximate literatures. This article speaks to the second of these features by applying the Public Service Bargain (PSB) lens to minister/political adviser relationships in new ways. Extant PSB analyses either position political advisers as an independent variable influencing the core bargain between ministers and senior officials, or face difficulties when viewing advisers thr...
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作者：Ingrams, Alex
作者单位：Tilburg University
摘要：In the United States, there is mounting political pressure on public agencies to publish internal data. But transparency policy innovation brings a unique set of legal and normative challenges regarding how sensitive information will be used. It is therefore an open question as to what legal-normative conditions favour innovation. Are there specific kinds of laws, rules, or normative conditions that are related to adoption of new, potentially risky, transparency policies? In this article, qual...
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作者：Craft, Jonathan
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：Empirical examinations of partisan advisers detail significant differences in their policy work, influence, and their patterns of interactions with other policy actors. This raises important implications for their potential contributions to policy failure avoidance. Using recent qualitative data from elite interviews in Canada, this study finds that advisers' policy work contributes to political policy failure avoidance as policy is developed. The findings help unpack the types and nature of p...
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作者：van Engen, Nadine A. M.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：Public administration research is becoming increasingly quantitative. As seen in psychological and managerial research, the result is a growing demand for valid and reliable measures. Given the tradition of contextually embedded research in public administration - where research should cover multiple factors to find useful answers to real-life problems - survey research should ideally incorporate many measures. This is driving a need for short measures that do not compromise on validity and re...
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作者：Mascini, Peter; Braster, Sjaak
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Based on a multilevel analysis of the OECD PISA 2012 data on school test results for 60 countries, we have established that three presuppositions underlying the policy recommendation to introduce more choice and competition in education are untenable. First, rather than choice and competition, we find that parental voice and targets and performance measurement incentivize schools to improve students' test results. Second, we do not find that choice and competition increase parental voice's imp...
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作者：Askim, Jostein; Karlsen, Rune; Kolltveit, Kristoffer
作者单位：University of Oslo; Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet)
摘要：Political appointees in executive government have received increased scholarly attention in recent years. However, few studies have covered non-Westminster systems, and apart from classifications that systemize variation in assignments, theorizing about appointees has been limited. Using large-N survey data, the article finds three distinct roles among political appointees in Norway: 'stand in', 'media adviser' and 'political coordinator'. The article then combines insights from research on po...
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作者：Hustedt, Thurid; Salomonsen, Heidi H.
作者单位：Free University of Berlin; Aarhus University
摘要：Ministerial advisers are said to strengthen the political control of bureaucracy. Using a comparative case design, this article investigates this claim by studying the roles of ministerial advisers in government coordination in Denmark and Sweden. The article demonstrates how the roles of advisers differ in coordination: Swedish advisers directly control government coordination through hierarchical authority. The roles of advisers and bureaucrats are functionally differentiated in coordination...
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作者：Hustedt, Thurid; Kolltveit, Kristoffer; Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg
作者单位：Free University of Berlin; Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet); Aarhus University
摘要：Ministers increasingly rely on advisers for support and advice. In many countries, these political aides are labelled differently. Generally, they serve as close confidants to their political masters and operate in the 'shadowland' between politics and bureaucracy. Scholarship has dragged the ministerial advisers out of the dark and described their background and functions. Still, the field of scholarship has a Westminster bias, is characterized by single case studies, and remains under-theori...
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作者：Qvist, Martin
作者单位：Stockholm University
摘要：This article examines the relationship between a meta-governing role of government and processes of network formation, based on a study of a governance initiative for improvement of refugee 'activation' services in Sweden. Meta-governance is centred on supporting the development of self-regulatory capacity within discretionary spaces of action and has, so far, primarily been associated with a specific type of interdependency-driven networks. This article focuses on an alternative scenario, whe...
