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作者：Taylor, Jeannette
作者单位：University of Western Australia
摘要：Many public agencies now face dual pressures to meet external accountability demands on one hand, and improve their internal performance on the other. This begs the question whether the demands that are made on public agencies to externally report on their performance have a limited or wide ranging impact on the utilization of performance indicators (PIs) for internal improvements. This article addresses this question via a small group of public agencies and public accountability authorities i...
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作者：Kickert, Walter
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
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作者：Alba, Carlos R.; Navarro, Carmen
作者单位：Autonomous University of Madrid
摘要：The main purpose of this paper is understanding public administration formation and change in Spain. Its development before and since the years of Franco from 1939 to 1975, is noticeably path dependent in nature. As this paper will show, the foundations were laid before the Franco regime. Then came a period of political domination of the bureaucracy and the emergence of a key structural element of Spanish administration, the special corps. The paper covers the period of political transition, d...
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作者：Baekgaard, Martin
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：The effects of different organizational structures are often assumed, expected or promised but seldom well documented through systematic studies (Christensen et al. 2007, p. 144). Using evidence from a natural experiment including organizational data from 65 Danish municipalities and survey responses from 1014 politicians and 403 administrators, the article analyses whether and how two different organizational leadership models affect the interaction between politicians and administrators. The...
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作者：Fotaki, Marianna
作者单位：University of Manchester
摘要：The causes and effects of marketization of public services have been analysed extensively in the literature, but there is relatively little research on how those policies impact on the development of new forms of governance, and the role of users in these new arrangements. This study reviews examples of competition, freedom of choice and personalized care in health and social services in England and Sweden, in order to examine the type of relationships emerging between the user/consumer vis-a-...
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作者：Ritz, Adrian
作者单位：University of Bern
摘要：This article presents improvements for the dimension of 'Attraction to Public Policy-making' within the Public Service Motivation measurement scale. The literature concerning the theory behind this and a large number of empirical studies point out the shortcomings of this dimension with regard to both the contents and the methodology employed. This article deals in depth with the aspect of 'Attraction to Public Policy-making' and, in contrast to the work carried out to date, tackles the open q...
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作者：Andrews, Rhys; Boyne, George
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：Corporate capacity is arguably a key determinant of the success or failure of public sector organizations. However, while there is growing evidence on the extent of corporate capacity, few researchers have systematically examined whether it is linked to public service performance. Does a larger corporate centre lead to better or worse performance for the organization as a whole? To answer this question we apply seemingly unrelated regression to measures of effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and...
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作者：Andersen, Lotte Bogh; Jakobsen, Mads
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：In terms of clinical procedures (to take the example used in this article, hip operations), both public and private organizations provide highly professionalized services. For this service type, our knowledge about ownership differences is sparse. To begin to fill this gap, we investigate how the ownership of hip clinics affects professional behaviour, treatment quality and patient satisfaction. The comparison of private and public hip clinics is based on data from the Danish Hip Arthroplasty ...
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作者：Spanou, Calliope; Sotiropoulos, Dimitri A.
作者单位：National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
摘要：In Greece, two distinct reform paths led to institutional building and economic managerial types of reform. These two reforms, with the exception of the period 1996-2004, when both institutional and economic reforms were attempted, did not attract the same degree of attention. Institutional reforms were more successful than attempts at managerial reforms; reform implementation on the other hand varies. Economic and managerial reforms can be observed with regard to economic competition, the ope...
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作者：Ongaro, Edoardo
作者单位：Bocconi University; Bocconi University
摘要：This article applies broad conceptual categories of comparative politics to the explanation of administrative reforms in Italy. It takes as its argument some lines of influence on public sector reform of the features of the party system in Italy, the executive-legislative balance, the politician-bureaucrat relationship, and the role of administrative law. In the search for explanations for the trajectory of administrative reform, pre-existing political and institutional factors also have to be...
