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作者：Elcock, Howard
作者单位：Northumbria University
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作者：Pollitt, Christopher
作者单位：KU Leuven
摘要：The paper examines the hypothesis that post-bureaucratic forms of organization perform less well than traditional bureaucracies with respect both to organizational memory and learning from experience. First, the paper discusses the meanings of the main terms and concepts to be used in the argument, and delimits its domain. Second, it identifies a series of mechanisms that are likely to bring about memory loss. Third, it examines the empirical literature in search of evidence to confirm or disc...
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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：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：Christensen, Jorgen Gronnegaard
作者单位：National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
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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...
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作者：Dowding, Keith; John, Peter
作者单位：Australian National University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Manchester
摘要：Conceptualizing and measuring choice is problematic both in theory and in practice. Measuring by counting the alternatives seems counter-intuitive as a smaller set of better or more diverse alternatives seems to provide more choice than one that is simply larger. However, concentrating upon better alternatives leads to choice being defined by welfare or utility which is also counter-intuitive. The implications of this paradox are considered in relation to examples drawn from the choice agenda ...
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作者：Hysing, Erik
作者单位：Orebro University
摘要：The role and capacity of the state are changing. Some researchers argue that the state is transforming, strategically adapting to new circumstances, while others see a development of governing arrangements that are autonomous from the state, governing 'without' government. This article assesses the governing without government thesis through the case of forest certification introduced in Sweden in the late 1990s. This is a case of private governance, the governing capacity of which is based on...
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作者：Sanderson, Joe
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：This article looks beyond the rhetoric in recent UK defence procurement policy to discuss factors that might impact on the practical implementation of buyer-supplier partnering. Various explanations of the difficulty of creating a partnership are identified. The principal explanation explored is that the likelihood of successful partnering is a function of the power relation between a buyer and a supplier. It is argued that partnering is most likely to occur under circumstances of interdepende...
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作者：Porter, Sam; Shortall, Sally
作者单位：Queens University Belfast; Queens University Belfast
摘要：This paper examines the epistemological bases for the inclusion of stakeholders in policy research. While it concedes that the input of stakeholders provides essential expert and experiential knowledge for the understanding of complex policies and programmes, it contends that the approach which assumes that all interpretations of policy including those of stakeholders should be afforded equal validity, which we term relativist perspectivism, undermines the possibility of robust research by all...
