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作者：Rocco, Philip
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作者：Berman, Evan; Chen, Don-yun; Jan, Chung-yuang; Huang, Tong-yi
作者单位：National Chengchi University; National Chengchi University
摘要：In Taiwan's post-democratization, public managers reduced their leadership and initiative-taking, thereby creating concerns about public sector leadership. This article defines the concept of informal 'executive initiative understandings' (EIUs) between political appointees and career executives, and examines how such understandings affect public managers' efforts and agency leadership. Based on an in-person survey of Taiwan central government executives, findings show that: (1) about half of ...
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作者：Zhu, Xufeng
作者单位：Nankai University
摘要：Expert involvement is usually regarded as one of the causes of policy changes. However, how does the nature of policy change, in turn, influence expert involvement? This study constructs an analytical model by adopting and developing policy network and principal-agent theories, suggesting that expert involvement can be regarded as the result of the inherent characteristics of policy change in the Chinese policy process. Two key characteristics of policy change, namely `loss embeddedness' and '...
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作者：Coule, Tracey; Patmore, Beth
作者单位：Sheffield Hallam University
摘要：Based on empirical research with two non-profit organizations, this article critiques structural explanations of non-profit service innovation, which portray innovation as a response to institutional contexts and downplay the power and role of human agents. We offer, instead, a conceptualization of non-profit innovation in which human agency - and its interplay with institutional logics - is an integral feature. Specifically, we outline the ways in which non-profit actors draw upon the competi...
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作者：Nohrstedt, Daniel
作者单位：Uppsala University; Centre of Natural Hazards & Disaster Science (CNDS); Uppsala University
摘要：Disruptive crises are generally conducive to policy conflict between multiple stakeholders. Following the potentially adversarial nature of crisis resolution, there is a need for theoretical approaches to advance the understanding of the political context in which such disputes evolve. This article explains how the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) can be applied as a theoretical basis for understanding the development and effects of policy conflicts in crisis resolution. Illustrating the ACF...
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作者：Painter, Chris
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作者：Di Mascio, Fabrizio; Natalini, Alessandro; Stolfi, Francesco
作者单位：Tuscia University; Parthenope University Naples; University of Exeter
摘要：Using a process sequencing approach, this article shows how Italy's response to an earlier fiscal crisis has shaped the response to the current one in two public sector areas that are especially susceptible to fiscal constraints: the budget process and personnel policies. Substantively, it shows the extent to which Italian policymakers have used the repertoire of solutions of the past and the pressures of the current crisis to freeze the expenditure of the public sector. Previous New Public Ma...
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作者：Georgiou, Ion
作者单位：Getulio Vargas Foundation
摘要：The decades since 1946 have seen repeated rhetoric supportive of Herbert Simon's critique, published that year, of Luther Gulick's Notes on the Theory of Organization' (published in 1937). The literature offers few contrary opinions against this support. The present article presents a minute analysis of Simon's arguments against Gulick. The reason for this focus is that the rhetoric supportive of Simon's critique addresses the manner in which he argued against Gulick. It is shown how Simon's c...
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作者：Suvarierol, Semin; Busuioc, Madalina; Groenleer, Martijn
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; University of Amsterdam; Delft University of Technology
摘要：The trend towards flexible career arrangements has not left EU institutions untouched, as is manifest in the growing reliance on temporary and part-time officials. How does the increasing career hybridity within and across EU institutions affect European socialization, i.e. the extent to which officials embody the spirit of working for Europe' and adopt supranational norms? We conceptualize European socialization as a mutually reinforcing process shaped by the interaction of officials with the...
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作者：Atkinson, Carol; Lucas, Rosemary
作者单位：University of Bradford; Manchester Metropolitan University
摘要：There are inherent tensions between government policy on adult social care work in England and the practice of that care work. This paper locates these tensions within the masculine model of professionalization contained in English adult social care policy and its interpretation by a largely female workforce. We situate our analysis within critical realism, exploring street level bureaucracy in manager and care worker policy interpretations. We argue that their exercise of agency draws substan...
