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作者：Askim, Jostein; Christensen, Tom; Fimreite, Anne Lise; Laegreid, Per
作者单位：University of Bergen; University of Oslo
摘要：This article addresses how to assess public-sector reforms using a reform in the Norwegian welfare administration as a case study. This reform represents a complex hybrid organizational form and a challenging combination of political control and local autonomy. We examine first how the reform has addressed its three main goals. These were to get people off welfare and back into work, to bring about more service-orientation, and to increase efficiency. We also address the side-effects of the re...
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作者：Christensen, Jorgen Gronnegaard
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：The EU with its supranational powers is a unique institution. Contrary to other international organizations, it can make laws that are binding to its member governments as well as to their citizens and enterprises. However, reviewing the literature, we find little consensus as to its true role as a lawmaker. This article and the articles that follow in this symposium remedy this empirical deficiency. The present article presents a comprehensive analysis of the scope of binding EU regulation. T...
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作者：Hardiman, Niamh; Scott, Colin
作者单位：University College Dublin; University College Dublin
摘要：State institutions mediate the challenges of globalization for the domestic political community: the concerns of specialists in comparative politics and in public administration are increasingly converging round an interest in the nature and functioning of state institutions. This paper draws on preliminary findings from a time-series database of national-level political institutions in Ireland to track continuity and change in state functions through analysis of state agencies. It also identi...
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作者：Nohrstedt, Daniel; Hansen, Dan
摘要：This article analyses counterterrorism policy convergence among the 27 European Union (EU) member states between 2000 and 2006. While considerable academic interest has been devoted to the common European Union policy in response to terrorism after September 11, few studies have compared counterterrorism policy-making at the member state level. This gap raises the question whether the institutional framework of European counterterrorism policy-making has stimulated convergence of national poli...
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作者：Weller, Patrick; Xu Yi-Chong
作者单位：Griffith University
摘要：This article seeks to understand the operations of the World Bank by examining one particular group of players - the country directors (CDs). It argues that the analysis of international organizations (IOs), by focusing on the behaviour of their principals (states), as principal-agent analysts do, or on organizational cultures, as the constructivist approach does, is inadequate in explaining the operation and behaviour of IOs, which are themselves complex organizations with chains of cascading...
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作者：Gunter, Helen M.
作者单位：University of Manchester
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作者：Mastenbroek, Ellen; Princen, Sebastiaan
作者单位：Radboud University Nijmegen; Utrecht University
摘要：To what extent does the European Union (EU) affect national governments? This article seeks to answer this question by assessing the Europeanization of Dutch central government. Using data from a large-scale survey among civil servants, we assess to what extent the EU affects the structure and culture of governmental organizations, as well as the activities of individual civil servants. On the basis of this analysis, we conclude that the impact of the EU both on individual civil servants and o...
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作者：Mueller, Wolfgang C.; Bovens, Mark; Christensen, Jorgen Gronnegaard; Jenny, Marcelo; Yesilkagit, Kutsal
作者单位：University of Vienna; Utrecht University; Aarhus University
摘要：By mid-2003, the legal orders (the entire bodies of legislation in force) of three EU member states - Austria, Denmark, and The Netherlands - contained between 10.5 and 14.2 per cent of rules devoted to the transposition of EU directives. Only a few ministerial jurisdictions contain more than 20 per cent of Europeanized rules. The member states show remarkable differences in the use of parliamentary versus delegated legislation as a means of transposition. The comparison of the three cases ten...
