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作者：Sorensen, Eva; Torfing, Jacob
作者单位：Roskilde University
摘要：In response to the growing discrepancy between the steadily rising steering ambitions and the increasing fragmentation of social and political life, governance networks are mushrooming. Governance through the formation of networks composed of public and private actors might help solve wicked problems and enhance democratic participation in public policy-making, but it may also create conflicts and deadlocks and make public governance less transparent and accountable. In order to ensure that go...
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作者：Gray, Clive
作者单位：De Montfort University
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作者：Esmark, Anders
作者单位：Roskilde University
摘要：The article explores the relation between the functional differentiation of society and the transformation of public governance. Based on the analysis of functional differentiation provided by Niklas Luhmann, the article interprets functional differentiation as the historical constitution of the basic and encompassing governance traditions in modern society, defined by the governance mediums of so-called function systems and the various programmes and scripts developed in relation to such medi...
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作者：Bevir, Mark; Richards, David
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Sheffield
摘要：This Conclusion reflects on the contributions the various articles in this special issue have made to decentred studies of policy networks. It concentrates on three areas: the role of meaning in action in shaping networks; new research agendas that have been potentially opened; and key theoretical debates. In considering the theoretical debates, this Conclusion considers various criticisms of the decentred approach to exploring policy networks, before offering some suggestions for those who wa...
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作者：Sharman, J. C.
作者单位：Griffith University
摘要：A fundamental shift has occurred in the relationship between the state and the individual regarding financial privacy. The onus is now on citizens to show why governments should not have access to their personal financial information, rather than governments having to show why they should. This article argues that this shift has come about in large part because of the activities of autonomous and influential transnational networks of regulators. These regulatory networks have systematically fa...
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作者：Christensen, Jorgen Gronnegaard
作者单位：National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
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作者：Connolly, Michael
作者单位：University of South Wales
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作者：Farrell, Catherine M.
作者单位：University of South Wales
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作者：Needham, Catherine
作者单位：University of London
摘要：A recurrent theme in New Labour's public service reforms has been a tendency to orient services to the user as a consumer or customer of those services. However a consumerist approach - and particularly the 'customer is always right' imperative - appears problematic in relation to criminal justice. This article uses content analysis to explore the use of consumerist narratives by selected members of the UK criminal justice policy network (Prime Minister, Home Office and local government). It f...
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作者：Harrison, Stephen
作者单位：University of Manchester
摘要：Self-regulation and autonomy are traditionally treated as distinctive elements of how professions are governed in contrast to other occupations. For medicine, these elements provide a collective medium of governance (through the institutions of professional self-regulation) and an individual medium (through the practice of 'clinical autonomy'). Both are reinforced by the intellectual dominance of the so-called 'biomedical model' of health and illness. Analysts generally agree that, in many cou...
