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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: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:Marks, Monique
摘要:This descriptive paper tells the story of the daily difficulties that members of the Public Order Police (POP) unit in South Africa experienced in their attempts to create a more diverse (in terms of race and gender) and representative police organization. This story is told through recordings of observations and conversations that span a 4-year ethnographic journal. The paper demonstrates that despite affirmative action and equity legislation and programmes, Durban POP by the year 2001, six y...
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作者:Kooiman, Jan
作者单位:Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
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作者:Cox, Andrew; Chicksand, Daniel
作者单位:University of Birmingham; University of Birmingham
摘要:This article assesses the appropriateness of lean supply and partnership relationship management policies as a means of invigorating industry, using the example of the UK pig and beef industry. The analysis assesses the extent to which it is operationally feasible, and with what commercial consequences, in UK pig and beef supply chains and markets. The analysis demonstrates that the lean and partnering approach is not always operationally feasible. Furthermore, when it is operationally feasibl...