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作者:Eichbaum, Chris; Shaw, Richard
作者单位:Massey University
摘要:Political advisers are an established third element in a number of Westminster-styled jurisdictions, as they are in New Zealand's institution of executive government. In this paper we report the initial findings of a research project focusing on the role and accountabilities of ministerial advisers in New Zealand. We locate these findings in the context of a growing body of international and comparative research on the role and accountabilities of non civil- or public-service advisers within p...
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作者:Walsh, David; Milne, Rebecca
作者单位:University of Leicester; University of Derby; University of Portsmouth
摘要:This article reports a study concerning perceptions of benefit fraud staff and of management concerning their own interviewing techniques and standards, and their views pertaining to a preferred model of interviewing. Interviewing fraud suspects forms an important task performed by Fraud Investigators (FIs) within the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in the UK. Given this significance, it is surprising that there has been little analysis of the skills used to do this task. Current trainin...
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作者:Christensen, Jorgen Gronnegaard
作者单位:Aarhus University
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作者:Jacobs, Brian
作者单位:Staffordshire University
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作者:Christensen, Jorgen Gronnegaard
作者单位:Aarhus University
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作者:Haverland, Markus; Romeijn, Marleen
作者单位:Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
摘要:This article seeks to systematically describe and explain variation in European Union policy implementation performance across member states and directives. The analyses rely on a new and original dataset comprising comparable information about transposition delay for practically all EU social directives in Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. On the basis of nearly 300 observations, we could establish that only in 42.7 per cent of our cases did member states transpo...
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作者:Stone, Diane
作者单位:University of Warwick; Central European University
摘要:The phrase 'think tank' has become ubiquitous - overworked and underspecified - in the political lexicon. It is entrenched in scholarly discussions of public policy as well as in the 'policy wonk' of journalists, lobbyists and spin-doctors. This does not mean that there is an agreed definition of think tank or consensual understanding of their roles and functions. Nevertheless, the majority of organizations with this label undertake policy research of some kind. The idea of think tanks as a re...