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作者：Rosamond, B
作者单位：University of Warwick
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作者：Andrews, R; Boyne, GA; Law, J; Walker, RM
作者单位：Cardiff University; University of South Wales; Cardiff University; University of Hong Kong
摘要：Central government in the UK has introduced performance management regimes that apply rewards and sanctions to local service providers. These regimes assume that organizational performance is attributable to decisions made by local policy-makers rather than circumstances beyond their control. We test this assumption by developing a statistical model of external constraints on service standards and applying this model to the outcomes of comprehensive performance assessment (CPA) in English loca...
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作者：Kay, A
作者单位：Griffith University
摘要：Path dependency is an important notion in diachronic approaches to understanding social and political processes. The first section of this paper examines the application of path dependency to policy studies; the advantages of the concept in understanding policy development are highlighted by examples from pension policy and social housing policy in the UK, and the EU budget. The next section considers several criticisms of path dependency: (1) it is a fashionable label for the intuition that '...
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作者：Stevens, A
作者单位：University of Kent
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作者：McEwen, N
作者单位：University of Edinburgh
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作者：Gains, F; John, PC; Stoker, G
作者单位：University of Manchester
摘要：This paper uses the concept of path dependency to examine the changes to the political management structures of English local government. We note how the possible experience of decreasing returns among some local authority actors combined with the powerful intervention of politicians within New Labour at the national level led to a significant break from past policy and the imposition of measures to establish a separate executive that was claimed as a radical step forward for local democracy. ...
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作者：Six, P; Raab, C; Bellamy, C
作者单位：Nottingham Trent University; University of Edinburgh
摘要：The Labour government that came to power in the United Kingdom in 1997 made much of its commitment to 'joined-up working', by which it meant horizontal integration between policies and co-ordination across services. The particular manner in which it pursued this commitment has led to growing pressure for the sharing of citizens' personal information among public service agencies. Yet at the same time, Parliament was engaged in implementing the European Data Protection Directive with a new Data...
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作者：Lonsdale, C
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：According to the UK government, one of the key features of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is the scope it provides to transfer risk to private sector suppliers. Under the PFI, public bodies are expected to develop interdependent relationships with suppliers that allow risk to be transferred. However, it is the argument of the author that it will not always be possible for interdependent relationships to be engineered by public bodies - on many occasions, public bodies will find themselve...
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作者：Hammerschmid, G; Meyer, RE
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business
摘要：This article tracks public sector reform in Austria with a focus on the influence of New Public Management (NPM) both as label and as specific set of reform ideas. We analyse to what degree current reforms have been influenced and shaped by this widely acclaimed international trend. In this empirical study we combine the different data sources of media coverage, reform documents and public sector executive survey to cover different levels of analysis. Although the reforms include NPM-features,...
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作者：Jones, GW
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
