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作者：Bellamy, Christine
作者单位：Nottingham Trent University
摘要：This article revisits the Whitehall Programme and Rod Rhodes' crucial role in setting it up. It examines the research commissioned for the Programme and how research in this field has changed since the mid 1990s. It confirms that research on Whitehall has become more diverse and specialist - reflecting its apparent hollowing-out - but that research employing a longer historical perspective does not support an interpretation that government in the UK was ever strongly filled-in. It also suggest...
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作者：Bevir, Mark
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：I'll tell you a story About Jack a Nory, And now my story's begun; I'll tell you another Of Jack and his brother, And now my story is done. [Anon] A great writer of fiction both creates a new, unique, individual world - through acts of imagination, through language that feels inevitable, through commanding forms - and responds to a world, the world the writer shares with other people but that is unknown or miss-known by still more people, confined in their worlds. Call that history, society, w...
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作者：Raadschelders, Jos C. N.
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：The study of public administration in the United States is large in terms of the number of academic programmes, the range of journal publications, and the number of scholars. Its scholarship attracts attention from all over the globe. At the same time it is a public administration that is clearly embedded in a specific national culture, just as anywhere else. Three of the main challenges include the strong increase of quantitative-statistical methods, the decline of practitioner authors, and s...
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作者：Stark, Alastair
作者单位：Glasgow Caledonian University
摘要：This article explores the relationship between the United Kingdom's doctrine of ministerial responsibility and bureaucratic efforts to control four contemporary crises. Evidence emerges from a series of interviews with experienced crisis managers, which draws attention to the way in which this convention: (1) tacitly conditioned the thinking and behaviour of bureaucratic crisis actors through their sensitivity to political risk; and (2) was reinterpreted and utilized instrumentally by politica...
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作者：Torres, Lourdes; Pina, Vicente; Yetano, Ana
作者单位：University of Zaragoza
摘要：This paper explores local government in Spain: the nature of and extent to which performance measures are developed and how they are used in some of the biggest Spanish local governments. The features of performance measurement in Spain raise the question of why non-mandatory performance indicators are introduced and why specific initiatives are undertaken. A cross-theory strategy allows us to build a wider explanation of the cases studied. This study shows that performance measurement systems...
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作者：Wanna, John; Weller, Patrick
作者单位：Australian National University; Griffith University
摘要：Rod Rhodes spent 25 years as the Editor of Public Administration before he retired from that role at the end of 2010. These essays in his honour are intended to celebrate the achievement of those 25 years and reflect on his contribution to the worlds of public administration and political science. Rod has now consolidated the standing of the journal as one of the most significant locations for work on public administration. At the same time, over his career, he has prodded and probed, challeng...
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作者：Gonzalez-Gomez, Francisco; Picazo-Tadeo, Andres J.; Guardiola, Jorge
作者单位：University of Granada; University of Valencia
摘要：Why do some local governments privatize water services, while others opt for public management? Economic literature has been unable to demonstrate that private management is more efficient than public management, so there must be other reasons that lead governments to privatize the service. But what are they? This paper presents the results of a study that analyses the factors behind the privatization of water services with data from 741 municipalities located in the South of Spain over a peri...
