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作者：Conner, Thaddieus W.; Nowlin, Matthew C.; Rabovsky, Thomas; Ripberger, Joseph T.
作者单位：New Mexico State University; College of Charleston; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：Public administration theorists have long argued that values of administrative actors fundamentally shape the quality and nature of the public services they provide. While there has been some work in recent years to measure values in the public sector like Public Service Motivation, we know relatively little about the role that other (more basic) values play in shaping managerial behaviour. To fill this gap, we argue that Cultural Theory (CT), a prominent theory within research on risk and pub...
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作者：Copeland, Paul
作者单位：University of London; Queen Mary University London
摘要：This article analyses the UK's engagement with, and the subsequent impact of, the European Employment Strategy (EES). In doing so, it provides an example of the process of Europeanization under the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) in a Eurosceptic centralized polity. Under New Labour (1997-2010) the UK actively engaged to upload its preferences to the European political arena. At the national level, the UK experienced a process of Europeanization that was most evident in the cognitive and pro...
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作者：Heims, Eva M.
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：Coordination between national regulators in EU agencies is based on a variety of mechanisms - such as mutual exchange and hierarchy - which the existing literature has extensively documented. However, it has paid less attention to explaining such variation. This article suggests that cultural theory can systematically integrate the observation of varied coordination mechanisms into one framework. More crucially, cultural theory also provides a coherent theoretical explanation for variation of ...
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作者：Linsley, Philip; Mcmurray, Robert; Shrives, Philip
作者单位：University of York - UK; Durham University; Northumbria University; Newcastle University - UK
摘要：This article employs Douglasian cultural theory to explain how policy consultations intended to secure meaningful reform can, in fact, work to reinforce the status quo. The context for this is an examination of responses to three consultations established by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the body responsible for regulating accounting and auditing in the UK. The results reveal a lack of diversity of voices in the responses to three consultations, with the enclave and isolate voices bei...
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作者：Robinson, Robert R.
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Fullerton
摘要：Baumgartner and Jones' theory of conflict expansion highlights the importance of policy imagery in the maintenance of policy subsystems, as a sharp increase in negative imagery can drive conflict expansion and subsystem dissolution. However, we still know relatively little about what drives rapid shifts in image valence. In this study, I examine how cultural change affects receptiveness to policy images, drawing on the cultural theory (CT) developed by Douglas and Wildavsky. Affecting both per...
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作者：Eleveld, Anja
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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作者：Simmons, Richard
作者单位：University of Stirling
摘要：This article examines the influence of cultural-institutional factors on user-provider relationships in public services. Using Grid-Group Cultural Theory (CT) as a way to structure the complexity of public service relationships, the article considers the extent to which public services are attuned to users' relational concerns. This analysis shows particular tensions between how users think the service 'should be' compared with how they think the service 'actually is'. Additional study evidenc...
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作者：Gastil, John; Knobloch, Katherine R.; Kahan, Dan; Braman, Don
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Colorado State University System; Colorado State University Fort Collins; Yale University; George Washington University
摘要：Deliberative theorists posit that highly structured face-to-face policy discussions can transcend ideological differences. By contrast, cultural cognitive theorists argue that people's cultural orientations constrain policy-relevant information processing and forestall the public's ability to reach consensus. Two studies examine whether deliberative processes can span divergent cultural orientations. The first assesses a prominent deliberative forum programme's capacity to frame policy solutio...
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作者：Nakamura, Ayako
作者单位：Musashino University
摘要：Mechanisms for controlling government organizations have attracted major interest from public administration researchers. Cultural theory has been used as a tool to identify the core control approaches of individual organizations. Whereas major existing studies have applied the theory based on the cultural types using nominal-level measures, this article builds a novel set of interval measures, focusing on two fundamental factors of government control proposed by cultural theory: grid-group di...
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作者：Meyer-Sahling, Jan-Hinrik; Mikkelsen, Kim Sass
作者单位：University of Nottingham; University of Southern Denmark
摘要：Research on bureaucracy and corruption tends to concentrate on cross-national research taking countries as the unit of analysis. Yet national-level measures neglect large differences within countries. This article therefore takes the perspective of individual bureaucrats. It studies how public officials' experience with bureaucratic institutions affects corruption within their sphere of work. Based on a survey of central government officials in five post-communist states, the article examines ...
