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作者：Coletti, Paola; Radaelli, Claudio M.
作者单位：University of Exeter
摘要：European governments have adopted policy instruments for regulatory appraisal, oversight, ex-post evaluation, and simplification in the context of the so-called smart regulation agenda'. In this article we compare the two most important instruments, that is, regulatory impact assessment (RIA) and the standard cost model (SCM). We answer the following questions: What are the economic rationales that, at least in principle, should make the SCM and RIA work? What are the learning models that, yet...
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作者：Kuisma, Mikko
作者单位：Oxford Brookes University
摘要：This symposium explores the role of ideas in welfare crises and transformations. Some of the key concerns are introduced in this article. First, it is argued that, rather than developing intentionalist accounts that explore ways in which elites use ideas as strategic tools, we should also pay attention to how ideas are expressed in public philosophies, collective memories, and logics of appropriateness. Second, it argues that crisis narratives are too often discussed in terms of times of crise...
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作者：Bach, Tobias; Ruffing, Eva
作者单位：Leibniz University Hannover
摘要：The environment of national agencies has changed considerably in recent years as they increasingly become engaged in European Union networks. This article contributes to a growing body of literature on those networks and their effect on executive politics at the national level by asking whether and how the EU involvement of national agencies affects the agencies' autonomy in policy formulation. We develop an analytical model for explaining the effect of EU involvement on agency autonomy. Analy...
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作者：Braun, Caelesta; Van den Berg, Caspar
作者单位：University of Antwerp; Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
摘要：Consultation of major interest groups is a widespread administrative practice in many EU member states. To date it is unclear, however, how advancing European integration influences domestic consultation practices. This article examines the impact of European integration on domestic consultation practices by conceptualizing how the underlying rationales of government-interest group interactions and the level of involvement of interest groups are affected by European integration. The study draw...
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作者：Mcgregor, Pat; Mckee, Patricia; O'Neill, Ciaran
作者单位：Ulster University; Ollscoil na Gaillimhe-University of Galway
摘要：In this article we compare the pattern of service utilization in the period preceding the health-care reforms introduced by New Labour with service utilization following the refoms. Data from the 1997 and 2003 waves of the British Household Panel Survey are used to estimate a series of utilization functions. These show that GP utilization overall fell, for women more than men and for the sick more than others. The results suggest that GPs responded to the changing context the reforms created b...
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作者：Considine, Mark
作者单位：University of Melbourne
摘要：Governmental systems are deeply inscribed by processes of path dependence and lock-ins, yet they are also required to play a central role in both policy reform and institutional transformation. This paper offers an account of governance networks and posits a solution to the traditional problem of dynamic inertia in governmental institutions and thus provides the foundations for a theory of transformation. By first identifying network governance as a typology of institutional ensembles, the pap...
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作者：Zhan, Xueyong; Tang, Shui-Yan
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; University of Southern California; University of Southern California
摘要：Drawing on political opportunity and resource dependency theories, this paper traces the development of 28 environmental NGOs (eNGOs) in China and examines the political and institutional factors that have constrained or facilitated these organizations' policy advocacy activities. The paper shows that political structural changes have created greater opportunities for eNGOs' policy advocacy, and eNGOs with better financial resources and connections to the party-state system are more capable of...
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作者：Montgomerie, Johnna
作者单位：University of Manchester; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)
摘要：This article evaluates the rapid escalation of American household debt in relation to the changing dynamics of liberal welfare capitalism. Starting with the outcome of rising household debt levels during the credit and asset bubble of 2001-7 it argues that the failure of asset-based welfare and the inability of households to move beyond their historical dependence on earned income made indebtedness essential to household social participation and protection. It examines the unique relationship ...
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作者：Bartels, Koen P. R.
作者单位：Bangor University
摘要：Public encounters, face-to-face contact between public professionals and citizens, was first identified as a key issue in public administration 80 years ago, but never developed into a subject area of its own. Although receiving attention in research on street-level bureaucrats' contact with customers, clients, and citizens, the concept of public encounters is hardly used. However, it has great potential to overcome current limitations in understanding how public encounters can enhance the qua...
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作者：Wu, Jiannan; Ma, Liang; Yang, Yuqian
作者单位：Xi'an Jiaotong University; Xi'an Jiaotong University
摘要：The article examines more than 80 winners and finalists in the Innovations and Excellence in Chinese Local Governance (IECLG) awards programme between 2001 and 2008. Our results show the main types of innovation in the Chinese public sector to be management, service and collaborative innovation, although instances of technological and governance innovation are emerging. State and party agencies at the city and county levels in eastern China appear to be more innovative than their counterparts ...
