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作者：Fitzgerald, Louise
作者单位：University of Oxford
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作者：Guo, Chao; Zhang, Zhibin
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Nanyang Technological University; Nanyang Technological University
摘要：To what extent do China's non-profit and voluntary organizations have the capacities to represent effectively the interests of their constituents? In this paper, we examine the prevalence of various representational dimensions in these organizations. Our survey findings provide evidence that, other things being equal, an organization's levels of descriptive and participatory representation have a positive and significant impact on its levels of substantive and symbolic representation. Our find...
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作者：Su, Tsai-Tsu; Walker, Richard M.; Xue, Lan
作者单位：National Taiwan University; City University of Hong Kong; Tsinghua University
摘要：Public administration has undergone a fundamental change in China since Deng Xiaoping initiated a process of openness and reform in the late 1970s. While reform is widespread in Greater China (China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau), only limited scholarship has been conducted to theorize these changes and empirically document them. This is somewhat surprising given the growing international prominence of China as a major powerhouse in the world economy and a political leader. This symposium seek...
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作者：Wu, Xun; He, Yan-ling; Sun, Milan Tung-Wen
作者单位：National University of Singapore; Sun Yat Sen University; National Chi Nan University
摘要：Public Administration (PA) as a field of study in China has made tremendous strides over the last three decades. This paper provides an overview of PA research in China from a sample of 2,877 articles published in six top PA journals in mainland China and Taiwan between 1998 and 2008. Our analysis based on these journal publications reveals several critical shortcomings of PA research in China in research reporting, approaches, and methodologies, pointing to a long journey ahead before the ful...
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作者：'t Hart, Paul
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作者：Dixon, Ruth; Arndt, Christiane; Mullers, Manuel; Vakkuri, Jarmo; Engblom-Pelkkala, Kristiina; Hood, Christopher
作者单位：University of Oxford; Maastricht University; Tampere University
摘要：Educational performance rankings elicit extensive press coverage and varied political responses. To investigate how the negativity of press coverage was related to the rankings results and political response, we compared the domestic press coverage of two educational rankings (the 2006 editions of the OECD's Progress in Student Achievement (PISA) and the IEA's Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)) in four European countries (Germany, Finland, France, and Britain). We found ...
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作者：Powell, Martin
作者单位：University of Birmingham
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作者：Carter, Bob; Danford, Andy; Howcroft, Debra; Richardson, Helen; Smith, Andrew; Taylor, Phil
作者单位：De Montfort University; University of West England; University of Manchester; Lulea University of Technology; University of Salford; University of Bradford; University of Strathclyde
摘要：The prevailing economic and budgetary climate is intensifying the search for methods and practices aimed at generating efficiencies in public sector provision. This paper investigates the increasingly popular bundle of techniques operating under the generic descriptor of lean, which promises to improve operational quality processes while simultaneously reducing cost. It offers a critical appraisal of lean as a fashionable component of public sector reform and challenges the received wisdom tha...
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作者：Donnelly, Caitlin
作者单位：Queens University Belfast
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作者：Hood, Christopher; Dixon, Ruth
作者单位：University of Oxford; University of Oxford
摘要：New Public Management (NPM), particularly in its early stages in the 1980s, is often said to have concentrated on cost-cutting and efficiency, but few studies have examined how far NPM succeeded in cutting costs. Focusing on UK central government, often claimed to be a leading case of NPM, and analyzing three sets of data (for running costs, tax collection costs, and paybill), this study finds little evidence of real running cost reductions in the early NPM era. It concludes that, contrary to ...
