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作者：Fischer, Joern
作者单位：University of Cologne
摘要：How is the doctrine of ministerial responsibility applied in the decisions of German ministers (not) to resign? This question arises from an empirical puzzle as well as from a theoretical contradiction. Despite the prominent principle of ministerial responsibility, empirically, the personal consequences' of ministerial scandals in their area of responsibility, display a large variance. Some ministers resign because of rather trifling affairs, others stay in office in spite of serious scandals....
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作者：Massey, Andrew
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作者：Curry, Nigel Russell
作者单位：University of West England; University of Gloucestershire
摘要：Public domain decisions in rural England have become more complex as the number of stakeholders having a say in them has increased. Transactions costs can be used to explore this increasing complexity. The size and distribution of these costs are higher in rural areas. Grouping transactions costs into four organizations, belief systems, knowledge and information, and institutions two of the latter are evaluated empirically: growth in the bid culture, and monitoring and evaluation. Amongst 65 A...
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作者：Eriksson, Kai
作者单位：University of Helsinki; University of Helsinki
摘要：The purpose of this paper is to identify participative politics' and what is here called self-service politics' as distinct political themes in many advanced democracies, in order to investigate their main elements and chart their interrelationships. These two themes are examined from the viewpoint of politicization and depoliticization tendencies. Participative politics consists of three main forms, defined as active citizenship, citizen networks and co-production. Self-service politics, in t...
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作者：Hall, Mark; Kutsch, Elmar; Partington, David
作者单位：University of Bristol; Cranfield University
摘要：Project-based initiatives form a major part of government investment and, so, learning from past projects should be a major concern for public sector organizations. Previous research has explored systems and processes for project-based learning but little research has examined the social and cultural factors that enable this learning to be applied with useful effect. This paper reports on two successive major UK government projects. The introduction of independent learning accounts (ILAs) and ...
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作者：Rothstein, Henry; Downer, John
作者单位：University of London; King's College London; Stanford University
摘要：Risk-based policymaking is a form of reflexive policymaking that uses risk analysis to address both the primary objects of policy interventions and their secondary adverse consequences. As such, it has become central to debates about efficiency, control and accountability in UK government. To better understand the factors shaping its emergence, this article studies the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' (Defra) adoption of risk-based policymaking. In-depth interviews with D...
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作者：Wirtz, Bernd W.; Mory, Linda; Ullrich, Sebastian
摘要：Given the increasing importance of eHealth as an integral part of eGovernment, this contribution concentrates on the issue of acceptance regarding the introduction of the German electronic health card (eHC). A brief introduction highlights the relevance of the subject and the differing acceptance rates of patients and service providers, i.e. physicians. Based on both the technology acceptance model and the relevant literature, important factors influencing the attitude towards and the potentia...
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作者：Broer, Tineke; Nieboer, Anna P.; Bal, Roland
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：We investigated the role of power in public governance using a Foucauldian conceptualization of power, i.e., power is produced by a range of techniques as diverse as language and measuring. We draw on an evaluation study of a quality improvement collaborative, in which different mental health care organizations were encouraged to improve their care in a structured way. We analyzed how the different actors involved in the collaborative were governed and came to govern themselves differently. Me...
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作者：Lange, Bettina
作者单位：University of Oxford
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作者：Yoo, Jae Won; Kim, Seok Eun
作者单位：Hanyang University
摘要：Governance research in Korea has been limited to literature reviews or case studies, and little quantitative analysis has been performed to examine varying patterns of governance mixture and their underlying variation. This article provides an important addition to governance research by mapping the terrain of governance mixture using quantitative data. The data were drawn from 96 departments in eight comparable district governments in Seoul, Korea. The results showed: first, all three governa...
