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作者：Finlayson, Alan
作者单位：Swansea University
摘要：The UK Child Trust Fund (CTF), which came into effect in January 2005, appears to be an exemplary instance of 'asset-based welfare', of the redistribution of wealth rather than simply income. However, this article shows that over the course of its development, and in its final implementation, CTF policy became ever more focused on generating a 'savings culture' and enhancing financial literacy. In explaining this outcome, it is argued that it may be characteristic of New Labour for which, it i...
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作者：Fleming, Jenny
作者单位：University of Tasmania
摘要：This conversation about the merits of ethnography in police studies began at the 'Ethnography in Policing' panel at the Political Studies Association Conference held in Leeds in 2005. Subsequent correspondence and occasional one-to-one meetings led to this symposium.
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作者：Stevens, Anne
作者单位：Aston University
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作者：Vandenabeele, Wouter
作者单位：KU Leuven
摘要：The article assesses public service motivation as a possible influence in the attractiveness of government as an employer by embedding it into a person-organization fit framework. First, a theoretical framework is developed and all relevant concepts are discussed. In addition, a set of hypotheses concerning the research question is developed. A sample of 1714 final year masters students demonstrates that the presence of public service motivation positively correlates with the preference for pr...
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作者：Bellamy, Christine; Bellamy, Perri; Raab, Charles; Warren, Adam; Heeney, Catherine
作者单位：Nottingham Trent University; University of Edinburgh; Loughborough University; University of Oxford
摘要：In recent years, there has been growing concern in the UK that local services aimed at risky or vulnerable people are ineffective, because of agencies' persistent failure to share information about their clients. Despite considerable national policy effort to encourage better information-sharing, previous research indicates that there are many cases where information is still not shared when it should be, or where it is shared when it should not be, with potentially devastating results. This a...
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作者：Christensen, Jorgen Gronnegaard
作者单位：Aarhus University
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作者：Rimington, John D.
摘要：The article traces a large real and comparative decline in the rewards of high civil servants in Great Britain over the 20th century, accelerating since about 1970. It relates this to developments in the market for 'high quality' graduates and to changes in public and governmental attitudes which have affected the size, organization and role of the civil service. It discusses possible causes of the decline in top rewards in terms of three explanatory approaches suggested by social scientists -...
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作者：Warner, Mildred E.; Bel, Germa
作者单位：Cornell University; University of Barcelona
摘要：Differences in national traditions of public intervention, institutional arrangements and public service markets make local public services an area of great diversity. In this paper we undertake a comparative study of how local governments arrange for delivery of water and waste services in the US and Spain. We find levels of privatization are higher in Spain than in the US. We review organizational reform in the two contexts and compare service delivery data using national surveys from each c...
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作者：Wakefield, Alison
作者单位：University of New South Wales Sydney
摘要：In many Western democratic societies the primacy of the police has begun to diminish with a proliferation of alternative service providers, particularly within the private security sector. This raises questions about how such bodies can best be mobilized and integrated within policing. This paper reports findings from three ethnographic case studies of private security teams operating within areas of semi-public space, to advance understanding of their nature and operations. It shows how the c...
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作者：Hendriks, Carolyn M.
作者单位：Australian National University
摘要：The coordination of policy networks, or network governance, poses threats and opportunities for democracy. Against the norms of liberal democracy, multi-actor partnerships do not fare well: they appear to lack responsiveness, public accountability and democratic legitimacy. But in terms of promoting deliberation and participation, networks could potentially deepen democracy. This paper injects some empirical insights into this debate by exploring network governance from the perspective of incl...
