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作者：Hart, PT; Wille, A
作者单位：Utrecht University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University
摘要：This paper reports the results of a comprehensive, qualitative (100 interviews; 9 interactive workshops) study among Dutch ministers and top departmental officials. Its key question is how both groups conceive of their respective roles and working relationships. This question became a high-profile issue in the late 1990s after a series of overt clashes between senior political and bureaucratic executives. To what extent does the old, Weberian set of norms and expectations concerning the intera...
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作者：Mattei, Paola
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：Health care services represent an extraordinary experimental ground for introducing wider political and institutional transformations of the state. The adoption of entrepreneurialism into European health care systems has strengthened technocratic decision making over traditional mechanisms of political control. In Italy, in the midst of a severe legitimacy crisis affecting the administrative and political systems at the beginning of the 1990s, New Public Management ideas seemed 'the' remedy ag...
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作者：Drewry, Gavin
作者单位：University of London
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作者：Noble, Gary; Jones, Robert
作者单位：University of Wollongong; Swinburne University of Technology
摘要：This article presents the findings of a study examining the roles and behaviours of boundary-spanning managers during the establishment of voluntary public-private partnerships (PPPs). It responds to recent calls in the literature to pursue research that incorporates the pivotal contribution of individual actors in the collaborative process, and to set this research within the stage specific context of partnerships. The analysis is located within the theoretical framework of organizational sen...
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作者：Needham, Catherine E.
作者单位：University of London; Queen Mary University London
摘要：The Labour governments that have been in power in the UK since 1997 have reconceptualized the public service ethos. In an apparent departure from their Conservative predecessors, Labour ministers have argued that the distinctive culture of public service can enhance rather than impede service quality and deliver high levels of customer care. This article utilizes interviews and content analysis data to explore the ethical dimension of public service, the significance of the language of custome...
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作者：Callaghan, Gillian. D.; Wistow, Gerald
作者单位：Durham University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This article uses theoretical approaches to the discussion of power in order to consider the role of public and patient participation in primary health care organizations in the UK. There is considerable evidence to suggest that, despite major national initiatives to extend participation in health services, the role of participation in decision making remains underdeveloped. The primary purpose of this article is to understand how and why this should be the case. Using findings from qualitativ...
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作者：Learmonth, Mark; Harding, Nancy
作者单位：University of Nottingham; University of Leeds
摘要：This essay critically evaluates the recent phenomenon of 'evidence-based management' in public services that is especially prominent in health care. We suggest that the current approach, broadly informed by evidence-based health care, is misguided given the deeply contested nature of 'evidence' within the discipline of management studies. We argue that its growing popularity in spite of the theoretical problems it faces can be understood primarily as a function of the interests served by the u...
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作者：Morgan, B
作者单位：University of Oxford
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作者：Sulitzeanu-Kenan, Raanan
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：A number of arguments regarding the politics of UK public inquiries (PIs) suggest that the appointment of a public inquiry and its subsequent report affect public responsibility attributions in ways that could be beneficial to the appointing office holder. One claim refers to the effect of an appointment on responsibility attribution towards the appointer of a PI; another refers to the relative strength of the effects of PI reports on responsibility attributions compared with other public eval...
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作者：Shaw, Eric
作者单位：University of Stirling
