作者：Andrews, Rhys; Boyne, George; O' Toole, Larry; Meier, Kenneth; Walker, Richard
作者单位：Cardiff University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：This study explores how English local governments managed high levels of worker migration from Eastern Europe in the wake of the enlargement of the European Union in 2004. Theories of local government capacity suggest that strong central administration and vibrant community organizational life can increase the likelihood that public service performance will be maintained despite sudden shifts in the external environment. We explore the interactive effects of immigration and administrative and ...
作者：Congleton, Roger D.
作者单位：George Mason University
作者：Wincott, Daniel
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：The idea of a (golden) age pervades most academic analysis and debate about the welfare state. This article interrogates this largely unquestioned epochal image of welfare history which is, in effect, a shared conventional wisdom. That vast and often disputatious scholarly literatures should share a conventional epochal axiom is remarkable. So is the absence of academic debate focused on this idea, which is both pervasive and vague. Perhaps paradoxically, our easy recognition of the (golden) a...
