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作者：Rosamond, B
作者单位：University of Warwick
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作者：Massey, A
作者单位：University of Portsmouth
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作者：Connolly, M
作者单位：University of South Wales
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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：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：Bogumil, J
作者单位：Ruhr University Bochum
摘要：The theoretical and empirical analysis of administrative activities has been an important area of research since the establishment of political science as an academic discipline in Germany at the end of the 1960s. But is administrative science still a significant part of political science in Germany today? 1 argue here that in Germany a political science oriented administrative science has developed from a science focused on public administration, that is, on organizational questions, to one f...
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作者：Connolly, M
作者单位：University of South Wales
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作者：Donovan, C
摘要：Research on the governance of publicly funded research does not recognize that social science and 'science' are distinct activities. Neither does it recognize that regulating research policy in purely science and technology terms has undesirable consequences for the social sciences - intended or otherwise. This paper seeks to correct these omissions and considers the governance of social science through the example of regulating 'everyday epistemology' at the science policy level. The British ...
