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• Public sector growth: Comparing politicians' and administrators' spending preferences AI翻译
  作者：Jacobsen, DI
  作者单位：University of Agder
  摘要：The notion that appointed bureaucrats act as budget maximizers still stands strong within theories attempting to explain the growth in the size of the public sector. This paper reports the results of a case study that included local authority politicians and bureaucrats in 30 Norwegian municipalities and where differences in spending preferences was empirically investigated. Counter to the original theory, bureaucrats seem to be less expansive than their political counterparts. The most expans...
• Ministers and top officials in the dutch core executive: Living together, growing apart? AI翻译
  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...
• The politics of regulation: Institutions and regulatory reforms for the age of governance AI翻译
  作者：Morgan, B
  作者单位：University of Oxford
• Pathways of change: Organizations in transition AI翻译
  作者：Erakovic, L; Powell, M
  作者单位：University of Auckland; Griffith University
  摘要：This article discusses and illustrates organizational changes as initiated by ownership transition. It develops and elaborates three different pathways that organizations might follow through the process of transformation from government departments to state-owned enterprises, and then to privately-owned companies: the incremental, radical and reductive pathways. The research reported here is based on 11 case studies of New Zealand privatized companies. The pathway approach develops and extend...
• The impact of institutional forces upon knowledge sharing in the UKNHS: The triumph of professional power and the inconsistency of policy AI翻译
  作者：Currie, G; Suhomlinova, O
  作者单位：University of Nottingham; University of Leicester
  摘要：Academics, policy-makers and practitioners are increasingly interested in the contribution that effective management of knowledge across organizational and professional boundaries can make to improved public services. Examining knowledge sharing within the context of the UK NHS, we ground our investigation in neo-institutional organizational sociology. We highlight the influence of regulatory, normative and cultural-cognitive aspects of institutions operating in the health care field on the bo...
• Policy learning and British governance in the 1960s AI翻译
  作者：Theakston, K
  作者单位：University of Leeds
• Developing new forms of partnership with the 'market' in the procurement of public services AI翻译
  作者：Bovaird, T
  作者单位：University of West England
  摘要：This article provides a conceptual framework for understanding the key differences between newly emerging 'market' relationships and more traditional forms of procurement by public sector organizations. It highlights how multiple relationships between service clients in the public sector and other stakeholders mean that service clients may often co-produce welfare changes in their communities in ways which professional and commercial providers cannot easily control and may not fully understand...