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作者：Leach, S; Copus, C
作者单位：De Montfort University; University of Birmingham
摘要：The introduction, via the Local Government Act 2000, of political executives held to account by influential overview and scrutiny committees challenges fundamentally the traditional operations of the party group system. This paper uses evidence from a variety of sources (including the experience of Parliamentary select committees) to explore how councillors are managing the tensions between party group loyalty and the expectation surrounding the operation of scrutiny. Four models of party grou...
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作者：Schofield, J; Sausman, C
作者单位：Aston University; University of Cambridge
摘要：The initiative for this symposium issue arose out of a series of five ESRC seminars called 'Implementing Public Policy: Learning from Each Other'. The aim of the seminars was to revitalize interest amongst public policy researchers about implementation studies, to advance the development of ideas about public policy implementation and to assess the relevance of academic models of public policy implementation to those who deliver public services. An understanding of how and why public policy is...
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作者：Bevir, M
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Interpretive approaches to governance include poststructuralism, constructivist institutionalism, practical philosophy and democratic pluralism. All of these interpretive approaches share a focus on meanings, sympathy for bottom-up studies and an emphasis on contingency. All of them also confront theoretical issues that have arisen from the postfoundational turn within philosophy: they face questions about the nature of the meanings we study, the possibilities for recentring given an emphasis ...
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作者：Abma, T
作者单位：Maastricht University
摘要：Responsive evaluation offers an emerging vision and rationale for evaluation. In the version of responsive evaluation presented here, evaluation is reframed from the assessment of policy interventions on the basis of policy-makers' questions to a dialogue among diverse stakeholder interests that moves towards reciprocal understanding and acceptance. This approach to evaluation is especially appropriate for the field of public administration, given the existing problems of complexity and the po...
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作者：Rothstein, HF
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)
摘要：This paper considers the impact of contemporary trends towards participative risk regulation on policy processes and outcomes. Using the example of reform of the UK food safety regime, the paper examines whether participative reforms are able to deliver their promised benefits and if not, why not. Empirically, the paper examines how in 2002 the UK's Food Standards Agency used a stakeholder decision-making process to manage the potential risks from BSE in sheep. The paper finds that the potenti...
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作者：Dent, M; Howorth, C; Mueller, F; Preuschoft, C
作者单位：Staffordshire University; University of London; Royal Holloway University London; University of Leicester
摘要：In this paper, we argue that, rather than aiming at universal contingency relationships, archetype theory needs to go down a path where 'local variants' can be discovered and understood by relating them to their organizational and institutional context(s). The case study of a public sector hospital group in a North German state (Hamburg) is drawn on here to elaborate the argument. We found evidence for a change from a Public Sector hospital archetype to a Public Hospital Corporation archetype....
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作者：Exworthy, M; Powell, M
作者单位：Oxford Brookes University; University of Bath
摘要：This paper argues for the need to re-assess models of policy implementation in the 'congested state'. This re-appraisal focuses on two main directions. The first involves locating implementation in the context of wider models of the policy process. We fuse three models, those of Kingdon, Wolman, and Challis et al., to form a new 'policy streams' approach. The second examines implementation in multi-level governance. In the UK and elsewhere, much of the focus of traditional implementation studi...
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作者：Bang, HP
作者单位：University of Copenhagen
摘要：Political and administrative analysis is today said to be taking a narrative turn: to learning by telling and listening to the different stories that constitute political life. However, this new approach to studying the decentring of politics and policy as multiple discursive practices carries a new grand narrative too. A new connection between political authority and political community is taking shape outside the spheres of modern government and representative democracy. Political authority ...
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作者：King, GJ; Vanags, E; Vilka, I; McNabb, DE
作者单位：Pacific Lutheran University; University of Latvia
摘要：This case study of Latvian local governments focuses on the qualitative aspects of reform legislation passed and implemented between 1990 and 2003 as the best available measures of changes made. Special attention is given to historical influences and inherited Soviet practices, the uncertain and conflicting value systems of reformers, and a gradual shift to concerns about the services provided. Power relationships are examined, together with the funding of local governments and minority relati...
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作者：Contandriopoulos, D; Denis, JL; Langley, A; Valette, A
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; Communaute Universite Grenoble Alpes; Universite Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
摘要：Debates about the form and nature of changes in the management of public systems have for some time now been articulated under the theme of governance. All definitions of governance are related to the problems of securing convergence among a diversity of actors and organizations, of redistributing power in an organizational or social field characterized by a high level of heterogeneity and of gaining sufficient legitimacy to act in the name of the collectivity. This paper concentrates on the d...
