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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：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：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：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...
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作者：Rocco, Philip
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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：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：'t Hart, Paul
