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作者：Ayres, Sarah
作者单位：University of Bristol
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作者：Triantafillou, Peter
作者单位：Roskilde University
摘要：How can we critically address benchmarking? By conceptualizing benchmarking as a normalizing governing technology, a space is cleared for analysing some of the power relations brought into play in benchmarking activities. As a device of power, benchmarking depends upon the production of normalizing knowledge and the freedom or self-governing capacities of those who are benchmarked. The fruitfulness of this conception is illustrated through an example from the Danish hospital system.
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作者：Bovaird, Tony; Russell, Ken
作者单位：University of Birmingham; Robert Gordon University; University of Aberdeen
摘要：In December 1999, the UK Civil Service Management Board agreed an internal reform programme, complementing the more externally-oriented 'modernizing government' programme, to bring about major changes in the functioning of the civil service - 'step change' rather than continuous improvement. This paper suggests that the aims of the reform programme were only partially achieved. While some step changes did indeed occur, even such central elements of reform as 'joined-up' working with other publ...
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作者：Hodgson, Lesley; Farrell, Catherine M.; Connolly, Michael
作者单位：University of South Wales
摘要：Over a number of years in the UK, public service improvement has been at the centre of both Conservative and Labour policy. Keen to make improvements in public services, the current Labour government is pursuing this issue more strongly than any other. This paper examines the concept of improvement and reviews the academic literature which has empirically assessed improvements in a range of public services. Drawn from over 50 studies of improvement, the evidence highlights seven determinants o...
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作者：Yesilkagit, Kutsal; Blom-Hansen, Jens
作者单位：Utrecht University; Aarhus University
摘要：The partnership principle in EU cohesion policy was introduced in order to involve subnational authorities and interest organizations in policy formulation and implementation. In this article we examine how the member states have reacted to this call for a new way of making public policy. We argue that the multi-level governance literature and the critics of the multi-level governance framework have not examined implementation structures properly, but have focused on regional influence. We con...
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作者：Ram, Monder; Theodorakopoulos, Nick; Worthington, Ian
作者单位：De Montfort University; De Montfort University
摘要：This article draws on the policy transfer literature to examine a UK-based initiative to promote supplier diversity and provides insights into three areas neglected in current research, namely: the dynamics of non-governmental policy transfer; the factors that mediate policy transfer in different jurisdictions; and the integration of research and practice in small business related policy transfer. To this end, an innovative action research approach is deployed with the dual purpose of effectin...
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作者：De Boer, Harry F.; Enders, Juergen; Leisyte, Liudvika
作者单位：University of Twente
摘要：During the past few decades traditional state-centred governing arrangements have been critiqued and replaced by alternative modes of governance. Higher education is one of the public sectors where such shifts in governance have been seen. As a consequence of the reshuffling of authority and responsibilities across the different levels in Dutch higher education, universities as organizations have become important foci of attention in the system's coordination. The main question addressed in th...
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作者：Dent, Mike; Van Gestel, Nicolette; Teelken, Christine
作者单位：Staffordshire University; Radboud University Nijmegen
摘要：This symposium grew out of the sub-theme, 'New Modes of Governance in Public Sector Organizations', of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Conference held in Ljubljana in July 2004. Our aim was to provide a forum to discuss the policy and practice and the space between in public sector management and governance within Europe.
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作者：Blomgren, Maria
作者单位：Uppsala University
摘要：This paper provides an account of the rising clamour for transparency in the Swedish healthcare field. Previous research into accounting, auditing and classification has shown that such visualizing technologies potentially have the capacity to create new objects and ideals in a field (Miller 1994; Power 1997; Bowker and Star 1999). It is thus reasonable to believe that the simultaneous use of various visualizing technologies in a field might transform it. This paper provides an analysis of the...
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作者：Dudley, Geoffrey
摘要：In recent years, the phenomenon whereby key individuals introduce effective ideas into policy processes has been identified as a vital agent in the redefinition of policy issues. In turn, this raises the basic question of how these individuals themselves undergo processes of learning and change. The article examines three models of policy learning in order to analyse what they may tell us about the dynamics of individual learning: the advocacy coalition framework; the process of learning by me...
