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作者：Moynihan, Donald P.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：The policy transfer literature identifies the importance of context in shaping policy selection. However, countries with distinctly different contexts are pursuing the agencification of the public sector. Why? The solution to this puzzle lies in the ambiguity associated with public management ideas, which allows policy adopters room to interpret management doctrines and experience. The result is that public management ideas that carry the same identifying label can mask variation in the unders...
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作者：Verweij, Marco; Douglas, Mary; Ellis, Richard; Engel, Christoph; Hendriks, Frank; Lohmann, Susanne; Ney, Steven; Rayner, Steve; Thompson, Michael
作者单位：University of London; University College London; Max Planck Society; Tilburg University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Singapore Management University; University of Oxford; University of Bergen; Constructor University
摘要：Successful solutions to pressing social ills tend to consist of innovative combinations of a limited set of alternative ways of perceiving and resolving the issues. These contending policy perspectives justify, represent and stem from four different ways of organizing social relations: hierarchy, individualism, egalitarianism and fatalism. Each of these perspectives: (1) distils certain elements of experience and wisdom that are missed by the others; (2) provides a clear expression of the way ...
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作者：Cowell, Richard
作者单位：Cardiff University
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作者：Noordegraaf, Mirko; Brandsen, Taco; Huitema, Dave
作者单位：Utrecht University; Tilburg University; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：This article is an attempt by three (relatively) young scholars to make sense of the broad field of public administration (PA), in The Netherlands, with particular emphasis on Dutch administrative sciences. The one essential fact about the Dutch administrative sciences is that they lack a real essence, both in institutional and in paradigmatic terms. They are fragmented - yet forceful. Nevertheless, we will argue, they must recast their position in relation to practitioners and other academics...
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作者：Halpin, Darren R.
作者单位：Robert Gordon University
摘要：Embracing 'groups' as means to address democratic deficiencies invites scrutiny of their democratic practices. However, many groups lack internal democratic practices and offer few opportunities for affiliates to participate. Guided by an implicit 'representation' narrative of groups, the absence of internal democratic practices is interpreted as a sign of 'failure' or 'deficiency'. Some scholars have entertained the idea of setting minimum standards of internal democracy as a prerequisite for...
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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：Knox, Colin; Carmichael, Paul
作者单位：Ulster University
摘要：The Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement of 1998 resulted in the return of devolved government to Northern Ireland and, with it, a decision by the Executive and Assembly to conduct a radical review of public administration. The review is now reaching its final stages and this paper considers the likely outcomes. It both argues that the parameters of the review will limit its impact and describes the reform proposals as either structural changes or administrative rationalization, both devoid of a wi...
