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作者：Sundstrom, Aksel
作者单位：University of Gothenburg
摘要：Explanations of bureaucrats' decisions to take bribes include accounts of incentives as well as expectations. However, there are further considerations in violent contexts, where refusal of bribes may have dire consequences. Yet, insight into this topic is limited. This article investigates how violence upholds bribery, through interviews with South African officials who enforce regulations in communities where gangs operate. The investigation shows that when citizens offer bribes to enable ru...
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作者：De Widt, Dennis
作者单位：University of Exeter
摘要：This article investigates the impact of institutional factors on the relationship between grant funding and local debt in England and Germany. Using a panel dataset covering the period 2005-12, the research identifies a positive relationship between grants and local debt. The positive relationship between grants and debt is reduced due to the impact of political and administrative variables. The findings demonstrate three shortcomings of the current literature. First, in contrast to the domina...
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作者：Osipovic, Dorota; Allen, Pauline; Shepherd, Elizabeth; Coleman, Anna; Perkins, Neil; Williams, Lorraine; Sanderson, Marie; Checkland, Katherine
作者单位：University of London; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; University of Manchester
摘要：Since the beginning of the 1990s the public healthcare system in England has been subject to reforms. This has resulted in a structurally hybrid system of public service with elements of the market. Utilizing a theory of new institutionalism, this article explores National Health Service (NHS) managers' views on competition and cooperation as mechanisms for commissioning health services. We interrogate the extent of institutional change in the NHS by examining managers' understanding of the fo...
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作者：Rocco, Philip
作者单位：Marquette University
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作者：Hart, Paul't
作者单位：Utrecht University
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作者：Lovell, Heather
作者单位：University of Tasmania; University of Edinburgh
摘要：This article draws on Kingdon's Multiple Streams Approach (MSA) to consider international, not just domestic, flows of policy. It is argued that using the MSA in conjunction with international policy transfer and mobility theories allows for a fuller explanation of the development of smart electricity metering policy in Australia. The MSA is based originally on empirical research within a single country - the USA - in the late 1970s, and all three of the streams' identified as important to pol...
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作者：Mortensen, Peter B.
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：The establishment of autonomous agencies has been a strong trend in the public sector across countries for about 25 years. In line with the official rhetoric accompanying such reforms, almost all reform evaluations have focused on various kinds of performance improvements. This article investigates a set of behavioural consequences of such reforms, which have been claimed by the blame avoidance literature, but have never been subjected to systematic empirical analysis. In particular, the artic...
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作者：Turner, Simon; Lourenco, Ana; Allen, Pauline
作者单位：University of London; University College London; Universidade Catolica Portuguesa; Universidade Catolica Portuguesa; University of London; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
摘要：Many countries use state-owned, for-profit, and third sector organizations to provide public services, generating hybrid' organizational forms. This article examines how the hybridization of organizations in the public sector is influenced by interaction between regulatory change and professional communities. It presents qualitative data on three areas of the UK public sector that have undergone marketization: healthcare, broadcasting, and postal services. Implementation of market-based reform...
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作者：Geys, Benny; Sorensen, Rune J.
作者单位：BI Norwegian Business School
摘要：It is often said that necessity is the mother of invention'. In this article, we assess whether this also applies to the design of public authorities' service provision. In particular, we evaluate whether revenue scarcity - as an indicator of fiscal stress - induces government outsourcing. In contrast to previous studies, we exploit arguably exogenous variation in local government revenue across time and space to derive stronger inferences on the role of revenue scarcity for outsourcing. Using...
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作者：Ventriss, Curtis
作者单位：University of Vermont
