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作者：Vis, Barbara; Van Kersbergen, Kees
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Aarhus University
摘要：Why are some governments able to push through radical welfare state reforms while others, operating in similar circumstances, are not? Why are some ideas more acceptable than others? We present an open functional approach to reform to answer these questions and illustrate it empirically by discussing the drastic reform of the Dutch disability scheme in the early 1990s. Ideas translate a functional pressure that existentially threatens a social insurance system into a drastic welfare state refo...
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作者：Van Wart, Montgomery
作者单位：California State University System; California State University San Bernardino
摘要：A variety of assessments through 2001 discussed the striking neglect of theory related to leadership in public sector organizational settings. For example, Jerry Gabris, Bob Golembiewski, and Doug Ihrke called on the field to improve on the emaciated condition of public leadership theory'. My assessment of administrative leadership soon thereafter, while trying to emphasize a recent uptick in volume, was nonetheless that the needs are great and the research opportunities are manifold'. My rela...
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作者：Sarker, Ashutosh
作者单位：Monash University; Monash University Malaysia
摘要：The scholarly works on governance alternatives are peppered with arguments suggesting that, to avert the tragedy of the commons, the state should coerce resource users to manage the commons; take authoritarian ownership of it; privatize it; co-manage it with users, or, since the state may also destroy self-governing institutions of users, stay away so that users can develop self-governing institutions for management. This article examines the management of the irrigation commons in post-war Ja...
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作者：Ryner, Magnus
作者单位：Oxford Brookes University
摘要：Why do actors that may be expected to contest finance-led capitalism in crisis periods rarely do so in effective and sustainable ways? This article contributes to the understanding of this question by explaining the sudden and puzzling silence of trade unions during the 1990-94 Swedish banking crisis. It underlines the importance of working within certain time-scales in prioritized policy areas for shaping strategic selectivity and precluding effective contest. The varied power of trade unions...
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作者：Massey, Andrew
作者单位：University of Exeter
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作者：Vashdi, Dana R.; Vigoda-Gadot, Eran; Shlomi, Dvir
作者单位：University of Haifa
摘要：This study examines multiple organizational climates and their relationship with politics and performance in public organizations. We argue that four types of climates (participative, innovative, leadership and service) impact employees' performance and public service outcomes, and that perceptions of organizational politics mediate these relationships. A theoretical model is suggested and examined empirically in a field study of 2102 teachers from 108 public schools and three major districts ...
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作者：Watson, Matthew
作者单位：University of Warwick
摘要：The post-financial crisis decision-making of Britain's Labour Government represents an interesting case of the more general tensions embedded in welfare reform strategies under macroeconomic pressures of financialization. It continued to find additional sources of funding out of current taxation to finance enhanced levels of short-term frontline services, yet this was always against the backdrop of attempting to facilitate greater long-term affordability through negotiating the switch to incre...
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作者：Font, Joan; Navarro, Clemente
作者单位：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); Universidad Pablo de Olavide
摘要：The article examines the role that personal experience with participatory mechanisms plays in the explanation of the perceived efficacy of these instruments. The first part demonstrates that , contrary to most expectations, citizens who have direct experience with these processes have a more negative evaluation of their performance. Where does this frustration effect come from? The second part analyzes three potential explanations of why this pattern emerges: (1) overly high prior expectations...
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作者：Alcock, Pete
作者单位：University of Birmingham
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作者：Deng, Shulian; Peng, Jun; Wang, Cong
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; University of Arizona
摘要：There is a global movement towards more budgetary transparency, in both developed and developing countries, as this lies at the heart of responsible governance. Since the promulgation of the Regulation on Open Government Information in China in 2008, China has witnessed an external demand and internal push for more budgetary transparency. Using annual survey data collected between 2009 and 2012, we found that budgetary transparency at the Chinese provincial government level, although showing s...
