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作者：Halpin, Darren R.; Thomas, H. F., III
作者单位：Aarhus University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：This article probes the variation in the breadth of policy engagement among organized interests. The literature, heavily shaped by large-n US studies of Washington and its lobbying system, suggests many reasons for organized interests to focus policy engagement relatively narrowly. This claim of policy specialization has been long repeated in the British public policy literature. The aim of this article is to empirically test the extent to which expectations of narrowed engagement hold in a UK...
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作者：van Damme, Jan; Brans, Marleen
作者单位：Universite Catholique Louvain
摘要：This article addresses the question of how governments can set up and manage, in an increasingly complex policy environment, processes of public consultation that lead to good outcomes. Drawing upon insights of democratic theory and literature on network and interactive governance, the article discusses the organization and outcomes of public consultation processes. The analysis of four Belgian cases shows that the absence of open process rules does not prevent good outcomes. Second, the level...
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作者：James, Toby S.
作者单位：Swansea University
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作者：Noordegraaf, Mirko; de Wit, Bas
作者单位：Utrecht University
摘要：Management pressures in fields like education force managers to control professionals. This generates friction. Professionals will not easily comply with control objectives; they feel responsible for clients and quality. Researchers have studied how professionals are affected and how they resist managerial interference. How managers themselves are affected by managerialism, whether they adopt control logics and are 'driven away' from work floors, is hardly studied. This paper studies how schoo...
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作者：Wright, John S. F.; Dempster, Paul G.; Keen, Justin; Allen, Pauline; Hutchings, Andrew
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Leeds; University of London; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
摘要：New governance arrangements for NHS Foundation Trusts (FTs) aimed to replace centralized state ownership of acute English hospitals with a new form of social ownership. Under this, trusts would exist as independent public interest organizations on the model of mutuals and co-operative societies. Assessing the impact of the new arrangements on the management structure of four acute hospitals, we demonstrate that FTs have failed to deliver social ownership and local accountability on this model....
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作者：Bell, Stephen; Hindmoor, Andrew
作者单位：University of Queensland
摘要：The relationship between state and non-state actors has been the subject of extensive debate within the governance literature. During this time two influential but very different accounts of governance have emerged: a society-centred account which talks of governance without government and a state-centric perspective which maintains that governance largely occurs by and through governments. There are of course alternative and more nuanced positions on offer. These two have nevertheless served ...
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作者：Masters, Adam; 't Hart, Paul
作者单位：Australian National University; Utrecht University
摘要：Triggered by the collapse of the US mortgage market, the global financial crisis (GFC) of 200708 hit most of the Western world hard and fast, presenting governments and citizens with a set of stark, undeniable and immediate realities. This article examines the attempts of three prime ministers Gordon Brown in the UK, Brian Cowen in Ireland and Kevin Rudd in Australia to meet the key leadership challenge set up by the GFC: to publicly assess, explain and account for the GFC and the accompanying...
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作者：Tummers, Lars; Steijn, Bram; Bekkers, Victor
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：The willingness of public professionals to implement policy programmes is important for achieving policy performance. However, few scholars have developed and tested systematic frameworks to analyze this issue. In this study, we address this by building and testing an appropriate framework. The aims have been: (1) to build a three-factor model (policy content, organizational context, and personality characteristics) for explaining willingness to implement policies; and (2) to quantitatively te...
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作者：Doelle, Meinhard; Henschel, Chris; Smith, Jennifer; Tollefson, Chris; Wellstead, Adam
作者单位：Dalhousie University; University of Victoria; Michigan Technological University
摘要：This article investigates emerging governance arrangements at the intersection between forest management and climate policy. The authors deploy the symposium's three-dimensional framework to describe and evaluate developments within two distinct policy sectors (forestry/climate change adaptation and mitigation) at several levels of governance (bi-national, national, and sub-national) to explore the nature and operation of the emerging governance arrangements, and assessing and measuring change...
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作者：Johansson, Vicki
作者单位：University of Gothenburg
摘要：This article will present the argument that frontline bureaucrats fulfilling their duties within an infrastructure bureaucracy can be understood as negotiating bureaucrats, policymakers, and cousins to street-level bureaucrats. Empirically, the argument is based on data from an exploratory case study of a major road construction project in Sweden collected through passive participatory observation, interviews, and documents; the main source of theoretical inspiration is implementation theory a...
