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作者：Elgie, Robert
作者单位：Dublin City University
摘要：The concept of the 'core executive' was introduced by Dunleavy and Rhodes in 1990. Two decades on, what is the state of core executive studies? This article argues that the language of the study of central government has been transformed. In addition, there is now a much broader consideration of the central government space, incorporating ministers, civil servants, and so on. Within core executive studies, the resource-dependency approach has become dominant. Arguably, though, with its insiste...
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作者：Hood, Christopher
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：This paper assesses what happened to academic public administration (PA) in Britain in the 2000s in the light of Rod Rhodes' gloomy prognostications about the future of the subject in the late 1990s. It argues that British PA had such a good decade in the 2000s, in funding, output, academic-practitioner interaction and institutional developments, that it could almost be said to have 'never had it so good', even if 'British PA' was probably less internationally distinctive in the 2000s than a c...
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作者：Stoker, Gerry
作者单位：University of Southampton
摘要：The idea of local governance has gained much prominence but can elected local government be sustained in a role as network coordinator alone? To investigate this question this article focuses attention on four societal roles that local government systems undertake. They can support political identity, underwrite economic development, facilitate social welfare provision or act as a lifestyle co-ordinator through the practice of community governance. Tying our investigation to the embedded socie...
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作者：Kjaer, Anne Mette
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：This article discusses Rod Rhodes' contribution to governance theory. Rod Rhodes' work on governance has been much quoted. He has contributed to setting a new governance agenda and to an ongoing governance debate. This debate has also had an impact on political practice. However, as this paper argues, Rhodes' definition of governance is problematic in that it is narrowly identified with networks, and it is not consistently applied. Rhodes' concept of governance remains too narrow for it to be ...
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作者：Hay, Colin
作者单位：University of Sheffield
摘要：This article seeks to gauge the nature, distinctiveness and significance of the 'interpretivist turn' in public administration and political science more broadly. It considers the various interpretations and, indeed, misinterpretations to which this new hermeneutics of public administration has given rise, its relationship to (genuinely and seemingly) cognate perspectives (notably constructivism, the new institutionalism and critical realism) and its strengths and weaknesses - both as an analy...
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作者：Rhodes, R. A. W.
作者单位：University of Tasmania; Australian National University; University of Melbourne; University of Newcastle
摘要：This article provides a brief intellectual history of my journey from traditional public administration through modernist-empiricism to an interpretive approach and its associated research themes; a story of how I got to where I am. I do so to provide the context for a statement of where I stand now and key themes in my research; a story of where I go from here. I have a vaulting ambition: to establish an interpretive approach and narrative explanations in political science, so redefining publ...
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作者：Wilson, Baron
作者单位：University of Cambridge
摘要：Government - its institutions, its working, its constitutional controls - is hugely important, not just as a subject of gossip or history in the making but as a discipline. Rod Rhodes' achievement in pioneering new ways of mapping and analysing developments inside government from the inside, and in coordinating so many different academic studies, was a remarkable model of the sort of research into government that can be, and needs to be, done by universities, not least as a basis for training ...
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作者：Pollitt, Christopher
作者单位：KU Leuven
摘要：This paper asks, first, how have comparative publications (academic 'outputs') developed during the past three decades; second, what theories have been in play, and, third, how can we best explain the picture of comparative PA that is thus revealed? The trajectories of themes and theories are set within a wider story of the development of networks and academic communities. Changes in practitioner concerns and networks have had significant impacts on the evolution of the academic sub-field. Cha...
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作者：Marsh, David
作者单位：Australian National University
摘要：Anthony King (1989, p. 97) argued some time ago that: 'most of Britain's best political scientists (...) are for some reason journalists'. This is a claim which could only be made by someone who thinks that understanding, or explaining, politics merely revolves around knowing what happens at the centre of power. It neglects the point that facts do not speak for themselves; rather, they have to be interpreted within a conceptual or theoretical framework. Such theoretical frameworks are, for the...
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作者：Boerzel, Tanja A.
作者单位：Free University of Berlin
摘要：This article will discuss the contribution of Rod Rhodes to the research on networks. I will focus on networks as a typology of state/society relations and as a particular form of governance. It is not only here that Rhodes has left his deepest mark; most research on networks still falls in one of the two sub-fields. The typology of policy networks, which he developed with David Marsh more than 15 years ago, has become a classic and still forms a major reference point for studies on public pol...
