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作者：Gains, Francesca
作者单位：University of Manchester
摘要：The worlds of local bureaucrats are under researched and under theorized compared with those of civil servants in core executives. Yet local bureaucratic elites, sitting as they do between central states and localities, are key actors in governance networks. In England, the role and responsibilities of local bureaucratic elites has been transformed since the days of professionalized officers heading departmental structures reporting to committees, firstly by NPM and politicization in the 1980s...
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作者：Kenis, Patrick; Provan, Keith G.
作者单位：Tilburg University; Tilburg University; University of Arizona
摘要：This article offers insights into the complexity of assessing the performance of public networks. We have identified three so-called exogenous factors: form of the network, type of inception-whether the network was initially formed as voluntary or mandated-and developmental stage of the network. We argue that where a network stands on each of these factors will determine the appropriateness of specific criteria for assessing the performance of the network.
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作者：Kooiman, Jan; Jentoft, Svein
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; UiT The Arctic University of Tromso
摘要：Meta-governance - or governance of governance - is a concept that raises questions regarding how values, norms and principles underpin governance systems and governing approaches. Values, norms and principles pertain both to substantive governance issues, for instance, related to sustainable resource use, and to governance system issues in themselves, for instance, regarding their institutional design. This article deals primarily with the latter. Thus the interactive perspective serves as bas...
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作者：Connolly, Michael
作者单位：University of South Wales
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作者：Foley, Paul; Alfonso, Ximena
作者单位：De Montfort University
摘要：Government policy-making emphasis worldwide is moving increasingly to how ICT can be used to achieve efficiency savings (Gershon 2004) or to transform activities (Cabinet Office; Transformational Government 2005). The role of ICT in achieving efficiency benefits or supporting transformational change is almost universally accepted by policy-makers, despite the fact that little robust evidence exists. eGovernment evaluation methodologies are reviewed and evidence is provided in this paper to dem...
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作者：Morrell, Kevin
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：The paper examines the control of power, using an account of the public good developed from Aristotle. It identifies three different perspectives on the relationship between governance (the control of power) and the public good: a 'cybernetic' perspective, an 'axiological' perspective, and a perspective of 'critique'. This framework offers a way to scrutinize the exercise of power, and to evaluate the linkages between a political administration and its citizenry. To evaluate an administration'...
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作者：Ridde, Valery
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; Universite de Montreal
摘要：Kingdon's multiple-streams framework, which emerged in the mid-1980s, today forms one of the indispensable analytical frameworks for understanding public policy agenda-setting. However, it is only in the context of wealthy countries that this approach has been validated for setting the agenda of national and international policies. This article reports the results of empirical research in an African state studying the transferability of a threefold theoretical innovation. The question under co...
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作者：Davies, Jonathan S.
作者单位：University of Warwick
摘要：Joined-up government has featured prominently on the agenda of the New Labour government in the UK. However, the politics of joining-up remain under-explored, with disproportionate emphasis on the technical and managerial dimensions of the challenge. This paper argues that political value conflicts form an essential part of the explanation for the replication of 'silos' within city strategic partnerships, the joining-up institution of choice at the local scale. A study of the local politics of...
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作者：Egeberg, Morten; Trondal, Jarle
作者单位：University of Oslo; University of Oslo
摘要：In terms of national agencies in the European administrative space, case studies indicate that national governments may be partly split so that national (regulatory) agencies operate in a 'double-hatted' manner when practising EU legislation, serving both ministerial departments and the European Commission. Applying large-N questionnaire data, this article follows up these studies by investigating how important various institutions are with respect to influencing national agencies when they ar...
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作者：Landwehr, Claudia
摘要：One of the challenges awaiting health care systems around the world is the containment of expenses in the face of exploding costs for new drugs and treatments. In most countries, the allocation of health care has not been politicized so far and the problem is still treated as a purely regulative one. However, there is increasing interest in the procedures used for priority-setting. The paper argues that while normative standards for their evaluation are desirable, more attention should be paid...
