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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：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：Bastida, Francisco; Benito, Bernardino
作者单位：University of Murcia
摘要：From an international perspective, a relationship between public sector transparency and better economic and social outcomes is something that is increasingly acknowledged. In terms of lack of transparency in budget reports both bureaucratic model and fiscal illusion theory have been argued as explanations. To assess transparency in budget practices we analyse to what extent a sample of 41 countries are meeting OECD requirements according to its Best Practices for Budget Transparency document ...
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作者：Fink-Hafner, Danica
作者单位：University of Ljubljana
摘要：Scholarly research into Estonia, Hungary and Slovenia has shown that the idiosyncrasies of the new EU countries (especially with respect to institutionalizing and centralizing the co-ordination of core executives in managing EU affairs at home) persist. They are complemented by trends toward convergence (such as growing co-ordination efforts and a common tendency: that of the prime minister to be the centre of co-ordination). In this article external Europeanization pressures, national adminis...
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作者：Greenaway, John; Salter, Brian; Hart, Stella
作者单位：University of East Anglia; University of Nottingham
摘要：This article examines a detailed case study of implementation networks in England using the example of the relocation of the Norfolk and Norwich hospital, which became a flagship PFI project for the Labour government after 1997. The case study illustrates the workings of the new order of multi-layered governance with both local and national networks from different policy areas interacting. However, it also sheds light on the governance debate and illustrates how in the world of new public mana...
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作者：Moran, Michael
作者单位：University of Manchester
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作者：Lewis, Duncan; Gunn, Rod
作者单位：University of South Wales
摘要：This paper reports the research findings of the experiences of public sector workers of bullying at work across 13 organizations in South Wales. The study explored the experiences of White and Ethnic minority respondents and found that there are significant differences in the type and frequency of bullying behaviours being experienced by the two groups. Ethnic minority respondents are more likely to label themselves as suffering from bullying behaviours than their White counterparts. The evide...
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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：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...
