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作者：Turrini, Alex; Cristofoli, Daniela; Frosini, Francesca; Nasi, Greta
作者单位：Bocconi University; Universita della Svizzera Italiana
摘要：Since the early 1990s, public networks have been implemented in many countries to solve 'wicked' public problems, addressing such issues as health, social care, local development and education. While considerable research has been carried out into public networks, both managers and scholars are left with some doubts about network effectiveness. In fact literature on this topic has been highly fragmented, comprising a plurality of definitions, multiple theories, multiple methods and multiple ex...
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作者：Lowe, Philip; Feindt, Peter H.; Vihinen, Hilkka
作者单位：Newcastle University - UK; Cardiff University; Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
摘要：In response to wide-ranging criticism of agricultural policy, especially within Western industrialized countries, new frameworks of justification are emerging and new hybrid policy fields have been established to tackle some of the 'externalities' of agricultural support. However, institutional frameworks are proving slower to change, partly because this would require coordinated action across different levels of governance. Nevertheless, previously marginalized environmental concerns have suc...
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作者：Collantes, Fernando
作者单位：University of Zaragoza
摘要：The article analyses the Spanish experience of EU compensatory rural policy in order to contribute to broader debates on the effectiveness of this kind of policy and the role of agriculture in the definition of European rural policies. In the case of Spain, compensatory allowances to mainly mountain farmers had little effect on economic trajectories or social cohesion because of the small sums involved, the exclusion of those with very small farms, and the decreasing role of agriculture in the...
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作者：Marsh, David; McConnell, Allan
作者单位：Australian National University; University of Sydney; University of Strathclyde
摘要：Claims that a particular policy has been a 'success' are commonplace in political life. However, a few of these claims are justified in any systematic way. This article seeks to remedy this omission by offering a heuristic which practitioners and academics can utilize to approach the question of whether a policy is, or was, successful. It builds initially on two sets of literature: Boyne's work on public sector improvement; and the work of Bovens et al. on success, failure and policy evaluatio...
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作者：Meyer, Renate E.; Hammerschmid, Gerhard
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business; Hertie School
摘要：This article reports a comparative study of human resource management (HRM) practices in Europe. We focus on the extent to which decision-making authority is decentralized, that is, passed down to management, and individualized in the sense of being in the discretion of a single decision maker. Using these two dimensions, this paper gives a picture of the distinct way HR decision-making practices are organized in Europe: although decentralization has been a common goal of modernization initiat...
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作者：Brewer, Gene A.; Walker, Richard M.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Hong Kong; University of Hong Kong
摘要：In the public administration literature, ways in which perceptions of red tape vary between different parts of the public sector remains relatively unexplored. In this article we define organizational red tape as a subject-dependent concept; that is, we expect to see variations in the level and type of red tape between different internal stakeholder groups. We then explain variations with two organizational-based variables, professionalization and marketization. The empirical analysis is under...
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作者：Feindt, Peter H.
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：This article uses the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) (Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith 1999; Weible and Sabatier 2007) and a refined version of the social learning approach of Peter Hall (1993) to assess and explain policy change in the Common (Agricultural) Policy (CAP) with a special view on Environmental Policy Integration (EPI). Three stages of EPI are discerned that move from central to vertical and later horizontal EPI, complementing an impact model of agriculture and the environment with ...
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作者：Jawad, Rana
作者单位：University of Kent
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作者：Verheul, Wouter Jan; Schaap, Linze
作者单位：Tilburg University
摘要：The questions executive mayors face regarding the fulfillment of their leadership role often reveal dilemmas and paradoxes. The subject of this article is how executive mayors cope with these dilemmas and paradoxes and whether or not the selection procedure matters. It presents results of a comparison of English elected mayors' interpretations of three dilemmas and Dutch appointed mayors' expectations of those same dilemmas. The first dilemma involves the creation of a sense of community versu...
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作者：Goldsmith, Mike
作者单位：University of Salford
