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作者：Farrell, CM
作者单位：University of South Wales
摘要：Governing boards are a prominent feature of many public sector organizations today. These boards have been modelled on the private sector board of directors. Like company boards, one of their main functions is to provide strategic leadership and policy direction for the organization. The role of managers and chief executives is to implement this. This paper examines the extent of involvement of one public sector board, the school governing body, in strategic activity. Using empirical evidence ...
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作者：Stevens, A
作者单位：University of Kent
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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：Roberts, AS
作者单位：Syracuse University; Syracuse University
摘要：The United Kingdom's new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is intended to empower citizens by granting a right to government documents. However, the law will be implemented by a government that has developed highly centralized structures for controlling the communications activity of its departments. How will the revolutionary potential of the FOIA be squared with government's concern for 'message discipline'? Experience in implementing Canada's Access to Information Act may provide an answer....
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作者：Mayer, I; Edelenbos, J; Monnikhof, R
作者单位：Delft University of Technology; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：The question can be raised whether the principal effect of interactive policy development is to shore up a (creaking) democratic system or to destabilize its very foundations. In this article, a framework is presented for assessing the democratic credentials of interactive policy development. It is based on four views on how a democracy should work: instrumental or substantial democracy and direct or indirect democracy. Critics and advocates differ in their confidence that the intended aims ca...
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作者：Adshead, M
作者单位：University of Limerick
摘要：In order to examine institutional change in Republic of Ireland (hereinafter referred to as 'Ireland' or 'the Irish case') as a consequence of European integration, this article looks at the adaptation of national institutions subsequent to EU membership. A new institutionalist approach is taken towards the definition and discussion of institutions in order that the analysis may encompass the broadest range of changes consequent to EU membership: in relation to national structures; decision-ma...
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作者：Wilson, J
作者单位：University of Teesside
摘要：Since its election in May 1997, the Labour Government in the United Kingdom has emphasized the need for modernization in the improvement of public services. For local government, this emphasis has led to the introduction of a variety of measures intended, primarily, to improve political management and service delivery. Two key policies have been the introduction of Best Value and the Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA). CPA is used by the Audit Commission for measuring local authority p...
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作者：Koppenjan, JFM
作者单位：Delft University of Technology
摘要：Despite high expectations, in The Netherlands the formation of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the field of transport infrastructure is stagnating. This article addresses the question of why this is the case. On the basis of a comparative analysis of 9 case studies concerning the building of partnerships, 3 patterns are identified. The first is the successful formation of partnerships resulting in enriched projects. The second pattern is that of early interaction resulting in ambitious p...
