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作者：Robins, Garry; Bates, Lorraine; Pattison, Philippa
作者单位：University of Melbourne; Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
摘要：In this article we propose structural preconditions for effective network governance, including network structures that can facilitate effective coordination of action (such as relational and structural embeddedness), and agreement among network actors about goals and actions. We illustrate circumstances in which these preconditions do not seem to be met through a case study of environmental governance of a major water resource the Swan River in Western Australia. This governance system, since...
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作者：Osborne, Stephen P.; Brown, Louise
作者单位：University of Edinburgh; University of Bath
摘要：This paper explores the dialogue about innovation in public services currently found within public policy and creates an interaction between research and practice about its strengths and limitations. It argues that this dialogue is a flawed one, often both at odds with the existing evidence and lacking a holistic understanding of the nature of innovation and its distinctive policy and managerial challenges. It therefore synthesizes existing research to challenge current public policy thinking ...
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作者：El Baradei, Laila
作者单位：Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB); American University Cairo
摘要：This paper investigates the proliferation of parallel structures also known as project implementation units (PIUs) and technical offices (TOs) within the Egyptian public administration system and the pressures since the 1990s that have led to their increasing numbers, including the current political turmoil. To determine whether these structures are a viable tool for the implementation of reform in Egypt, the paper examines international experience, analyses the literature, and assesses the re...
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作者：Kjekshus, Lars Erik; Veggeland, Frode
作者单位：University of Oslo
摘要：State regulatory capacity is being threatened by internationalization, commercialization and persistent demand for public services. The article addresses the overarching question of how the state is changing due to recent public sector reforms. By studying changes in the regulation of the health care sector and the food sector in Norway, the article challenges the assumption that recent public sector reforms have necessarily led to a decline of the central state's regulatory strength. The conc...
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作者：Hazell, Robert; Glover, Mark
作者单位：University of London; University College London
摘要：This article examines whether the UK Freedom of Information Act 2000 has changed Whitehall. Based on a two-year, ESRC-funded study, it evaluates the impact of FOI on five characteristics of the Whitehall model: the culture of secrecy, ministerial accountability to Parliament, civil service neutrality, the Cabinet system, and effective government. Proponents of FOI hoped that government would be less secretive, more accountable and more effective; critics feared that civil servants would lose t...
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作者：Jeffares, Stephen; Skelcher, Chris
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：Network forms of governance enable public managers to exercise considerable agency in shaping the institutions through which government interacts with citizens, civil society organizations and business. These network institutions configure democratic legitimacy and accountability in various ways, but little is known about how managers-as-designers think about democracy. This Q methodology study identifies five democratic subjectivities. Pragmatists have little concern for democracy. Realists r...
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作者：O'Reilly, Dermot
作者单位：Lancaster University
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作者：Bejerot, Eva; Hasselbladh, Hans
作者单位：Stockholm University; Orebro University
摘要：In the context of the recent transformation of control in Swedish health care, the changing role of quality registers are analysed as a vivid example of how professional groups become involved in new modes of regulating professional work. Based on a critical appraisal of the main currents in the research on NPM, it is argued that understanding the productive side of power is an underexploited theme. The main part of the article is devoted to a detailed analysis of how a seemingly insignificant...
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作者：Nilsson, Mans
作者单位：Stockholm Environment Institute; Royal Institute of Technology
摘要：The EU takes a growing interest in governing the energy sector in its member states. Competing with national institutions, policies and organizational structures, it is however not clear whether the EU exerts a strong influence compared to other factors, and if there is such an influence, the mechanisms are not well understood. This paper examines strategic reorientation towards electricity investment in the Swedish energy sector, a frontrunner case of Europeanization, and discusses how this c...
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作者：Askim, Jostein; Fimreite, Anne Lise; Moseley, Alice; Pedersen, Lene Holm
作者单位：University of Oslo; University of Bergen; University of Exeter
摘要：In recent years welfare services in Western Europe have been criticized for poor coordination. In response, seamlessness has emerged as a vision for public administration with one-stop shops' viewed as means to reach this. This article conceptualizes the one-stop shop and presents a three country case study to examine its drivers and its adaptation. In all countries the reforms meant mergers driven by hopes for a single entrance to services as well as proximity to citizens. However, the analys...
