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作者：Denis, Jean-Louis; Ferlie, Ewan; Van Gestel, Nicolette
作者单位：University of Quebec; Ecole National Administration Publique Canada; University of London; King's College London; Tilburg University
摘要：This article explores and extends the concept of hybridity to understand current changes in public services organizations, notably as seen from an organizational studies perspective. The notion of hybridity has become more important, given that the public sector increasingly blurs with other sectors and more social actors. Previous reliance on the use of ideal-types in characterizing public services reforms has masked expanding heterogeneity. We here move beyond the (i) conventional focus on s...
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作者：Fossestol, Knut; Breit, Eric; Andreassen, Tone Alm; Klemsdal, Lars
作者单位：Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet); Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet); Universitetet i Stavanger
摘要：In this article, we explore how public front-line service organizations respond to contradictory demands for institutional reform and the types of hybridization this entails. Our research context is a major administrative welfare reform in Norway characterized by a dominant New Public Management (NPM) logic of uniform user service and central administrative control, and a subordinate post-NPM logic of holistic user service and local organizational autonomy. We elucidate four types of responses...
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作者：Argyriades, Demetrios
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System
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作者：Peled, Alon
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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作者：Gerrits, Lasse; Marks, Peter
作者单位：Otto Friedrich University Bamberg; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
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作者：Allers, Maarten A.
作者单位：University of Groningen; University of Groningen
摘要：The fiscal federalism and public choice literatures stress that government bailouts should be ruled out as they increase the probability that jurisdictions will incur unsustainable debt levels or take excessive risk (moral hazard problem). The recent problems in the euro area seem to confirm this view. However, in the Netherlands, the law explicitly stipulates that local governments which are unable to balance their books will receive a bailout grant. Surprisingly, this does not seem to create...
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作者：Gerrits, Lasse; Marks, Peter
作者单位：Otto Friedrich University Bamberg; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
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作者：Boswell, Christina
作者单位：University of Edinburgh
摘要：Performance targets tend to be depicted as management tools, designed to improve public policy outcomes. Yet targets also have a symbolic function, signalling commitment to and underscoring achievement of political goals. This article explores the tension between these 'disciplining' and 'signalling' functions, looking at UK targets on asylum, 2000-10. Attempts to combine the two functions led to three types of problem: (1) technical targets designed to steer organizational performance lacked ...
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作者：Waring, Justin
作者单位：University of Nottingham
摘要：Public service reforms increasingly blur the boundaries between public and private sectors, involving hybrid modes of service organization. With growing numbers of public services being transferred to private or mutual ownership, the article interprets reform as a public sector diaspora. Drawing upon the diaspora studies literature, the article proposes a model of hybridization that centres on the possibilities for cultural dislocation, adaptation, and hybridity. Focusing on reforms within the...
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作者：Balla, Steven J.
作者单位：George Washington University
摘要：In recent years, the accessibility and transparency of administrative procedures have attracted the attention of researchers and policymakers in the United States. This article investigates the accessibility and transparency of a particularly important administrative procedure, the notice and comment process. The article presents a theoretical account of the operation of political control and bureaucratic discretion in two aspects of the notice and comment process - the duration of comment per...
