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作者：Connolly, Michael
作者单位：University of South Wales
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作者：Coulson, Andrew
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：The Private Finance Initiative (PFI), introduced to Britain in 1992, has become a major means of procuring public sector infrastructure. It involves long-term contracts whereby private sector suppliers construct and own capital assets and provide services for which they are paid on the basis of availability or use. This paper focuses on the early stages of a PFI procurement, the decision to use the PFI rather than any other form of procurement. In 2004 and 2006, the UK Treasury issued new Guid...
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作者：Pearce, Graham; Mawson, John; Ayres, Sarah
作者单位：Aston University; University of Warwick; University of Bristol
摘要：Debates about the appropriate territorial scales of government to meet the challenges of economic, political and social change have gained momentum in Western Europe in recent years. In the UK, political mobilization has transformed constitutional arrangements in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. By contrast, in the English regions, a less radical approach has been adopted, but the outcome has been a strengthening of the institutions of regional governance. A key feature has been the enhan...
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作者：Weale, Albert
作者单位：University of Essex
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作者：Dunlop, Claire A.
作者单位：University of Exeter
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作者：Askim, Jostein; Hanssen, Gro Sandkjaer
作者单位：University of Oslo
摘要：The article expands citizen participation research by tackling participation from the viewpoint of elected officials - the recipients of citizen input. The article studies the role citizen input plays in elected officials' decision making. Citizen input is defined as information elected officials obtain through direct contact with citizens and representatives of local associations. Using survey data from Norwegian local government, the article assesses how much citizen input councillors receiv...
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作者：Elcock, Howard
作者单位：Northumbria University
摘要：Countries can and sometimes do copy the institutions and practices of other countries in order to address problems and issues that they have in common with them. The office of directly elected mayor has become an increasingly common feature of local government throughout the developed democracies, spreading from its largely American origins to a range of European states. This paper develops a matrix for the analysis of elected mayors in different countries using as its horizontal axis the form...
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作者：Esmark, Anders
作者单位：Roskilde University
摘要：The article analyses the Europeanization of the Danish national administration. The article offers a revision of the standard image of Danish adaptation to EU membership as being highly centralized and formalized. Rather, the Danish experience involves substantial polity change in terms of new institutions and procedures as well as a change in the overall approach to the EU. Whereas the initial response to membership favoured a strategy for polity adaptation based on centralization - vertical ...
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作者：Fleming, Jenny
作者单位：University of Tasmania
摘要：What do we know about the work of a Police Commissioner? Using the example of Australia, this article provides a perspective of the working environment within which a Police Commissioner operates. The emphasis is on the Commissioner's office and how that office manages a constantly changing diary in an unpredictable and uncertain environment both internally and externally. Through an analysis of a workplace diary spanning five years, interviews and non-participation observation notes, the arti...
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作者：Jordan, Jan
作者单位：Victoria University Wellington
摘要：Despite recent reforms internationally, significant criticism has been levelled at police departments regarding their service delivery to crime victims, and particularly for the disbelieving and insensitive attitudes officers may display towards women reporting rape and sexual assault. Police responses are frequently influenced by negative judgements regarding the victim's dress, behaviour, and demeanour. These are flawed and 'imperfect' women - what right have they to expect 'perfect' treatme...
