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作者：Miller, Karen Johnston; McTavish, Duncan
作者单位：Glasgow Caledonian University
摘要：The promotion of gender equality has been adopted onto many national policy agendas with the introduction of legislation, public policies and regulatory duties. Yet, gender occupational segregation and discrimination persists. This paper examines the gendered nature of the UK public sector and questions the extent to which public administration scholarship addresses gender bias. The evidence, based on secondary and primary data, reveals that public administration scholarship tends to value mas...
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作者：Schout, Adriaan; Pereyra, Fabian
摘要：A stream of reviews that take stock of EU governance trends shows that the EU's governance agenda produces mixed results. EU agencies are part of the EU's search for new governance mechanisms. They have not proven to be a break with EU policy-making processes - underpinning administrative stability rather than reform. This article explores the institutionalization of EU agencies. Using the case of the EU's human resources (HR) policy, it concludes that administrative details are important in o...
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作者：Botterill, Linda Courtenay
作者单位：University of Canberra; Australia & New Zealand School of Government
摘要：Since the 1980s, there has been renewed interest among political scientists in the role of institutions. An important strand of this 'new institutionalism' is historical institutionalism. Recent theoretical developments have sought to address the most obvious criticisms of the historical institutionalist approach, particularly the critique relating to its tendency to focus on explanations of stability. However, the institutional histories under consideration are generally incomplete as they do...
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作者：Zubek, Radoslaw
作者单位：University of Oxford; University of Oxford
摘要：This article compares cabinet institutions for coordinating the transposition of EU legislation in Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. It examines how national executives have adapted to European integration and what factors have shaped institutional variation across countries and over time. During pre-accession, the Hungarian, Polish and (to a lesser extent) Czech cabinets established strong core executives for tracking EU-related legislative commitments, monitoring progress and reviewing...
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作者：Baggott, Rob
作者单位：De Montfort University
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作者：Bhatti, Yosef; Olsen, Asmus L.; Pedersen, Lene Holm
作者单位：University of Copenhagen
摘要：This article examines how administrative professionals affect the diffusion of one-stop shops in the form of integrated citizen service centres (CSC) in a Danish local government setting. CSCs are an example of a new organizational form: functionally integrated small units (FISUs). The diffusion of the CSCs among municipalities is used to analyse how administrative professionals act as drivers in the process of organizational level innovation. Furthermore, it is examined how institutional, pol...
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作者：Dick, Gavin P. M.
作者单位：University of Kent
摘要：Like all public sector agencies police forces are under constant pressure to improve their performance through better management of existing resources. However, little research has been done that explains how officers' organizational commitment, an essential requirement for above average employee productivity, can be improved. Using a whole population survey of a county police force in the UK, managerial, job, and demographic variables are analysed that influence officers' organizational commi...
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作者：Preuss, Lutz; Walker, Helen
作者单位：University of London; Royal Holloway University London; Cardiff University
摘要：This article provides a conceptual framework for understanding key psychological barriers to implementing sustainable development in procurement process by local government and health care authorities. This task is an important one as a comprehension of psychological barriers is a prerequisite for understanding how individuals engage with the often more visible technical, budgetary or regulatory barriers in sustainable procurement. The article highlights how progress towards sustainable procur...
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作者：Galaz, Victor; Moberg, Fredrik; Olsson, Eva-Karin; Paglia, Eric; Parker, Charles
作者单位：Stockholm University; Uppsala University
摘要：While some of the future impacts of global environmental change such as some aspects of climate change can be projected and prepared for in advance, other effects are likely to surface as surprises - that is situations in which the behaviour in a system, or across systems, differs qualitatively from expectations. Here we analyse a set of institutional and political leadership challenges posed by 'cascading' ecological crises: abrupt ecological changes that propagate into societal crises that m...
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作者：Currie, Graeme; Grubnic, Suzana; Hodges, Ron
作者单位：University of Warwick; University of Nottingham; University of Sheffield
摘要：In this article, the authors examine the implementation of policy aimed to promote the role of organizational networks and distributed leadership in the establishment and consolidation of public service reform. In theory, leadership and networks should complement each other, with the less hierarchical logic of the network allowing leadership of change, distributed among network members, rather than led from a single organizational apex, to flourish. In practice, as a consequence of inherent bu...
