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作者：Zito, AR; Radaelli, CM; Jordan, A
作者单位：Newcastle University - UK; University of Bradford; University of East Anglia
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作者：Marnoch, G
作者单位：Ulster University
摘要：This article examines the emergent identity and impact of devolution in Scotland. Using the case of community care for the elderly, a model is set out for capturing the different interpretive perspectives evident in relation to a particular policy area in 1999-2001. The political story of the 'free personal care' issue, in which the Scottish Executive were unexpectedly forced into adopting a markedly different policy from the rest of the UK, is examined in some detail. Setting the episode in a...
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作者：Marinetto, M
作者单位：Cardiff University
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作者：McAdam, R; Walker, T
作者单位：Ulster University
摘要：The aim is of this paper is to conduct an exploratory study into the use of Balanced Scorecards as an approach to implementing Best Value in UK local government. Furthermore, a participant-observation method is used to study the development into a Balanced Scorecard within local government. There is a need to critically evaluate approaches to implementing Best Value so that local government can determine how to achieve the service performance levels laid down in the framework. There is a pauci...
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作者：Barnes, M; Newman, J; Knops, A; Sullivan, H
作者单位：University of Birmingham; Open University - UK; University of West England
摘要：The emphasis on public participation in contemporary policy discourse has prompted the development of a Wide range of forums within which dialogue takes place between citizens and officials. Often such initiatives are intended to contribute to objectives relating to social exclusion and democratic renewal. The question of 'who takes part' within such forums is, then, critical to an understanding of how far new types of forums can contribute to the delivery of such objectives. This article draw...
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作者：Bevir, M; Rhodes, RAW; Weller, P
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Australian National University; Griffith University
摘要：This article revisits the country case studies and seeks to answer two questions. What are the strengths and weaknesses of an interpretive approach? What lessons can we draw from our analysis of public sector reform? To assess an interpretive approach, we discuss: the issues raised in identifying beliefs; the meaning of explanation; how to select traditions; the shift from prediction to informed conjecture and policy advice as storytelling. To assess the lessons, we outline our preferred story...
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作者：Christensen, T; Lægreid, P
作者单位：University of Oslo; University of Bergen; University of Bergen
摘要：Inspired by New Public Management, many countries have changed their central public apparatus from an integrated to a more segregated structural model. A central element in this process is structural devolution and the establishment of new or reorganized state-owned companies with increased business autonomy and new formal control systems. This paper focuses on how this development, as exemplified by the case of Norway, is affecting the role of central executive political and administrative le...
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作者：Davies, A; Thomas, R
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：This paper presents empirical and theoretical analysis of the enactment of New Public Management (NPM) within the UK police service. It draws on empirical material gathered in a two-year study that explores the ways in which individual policing professionals have responded to, and received, the NPM discourse. Theoretically informed by a discursive approach to organizational analysis, the paper focuses on the new subject positions promoted within NPM that serve to challenge traditional understa...
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作者：Lowndes, V; Wilson, D
作者单位：De Montfort University; De Montfort University
摘要：This article focuses upon one particular aspect of new institutionalist thinking - that which analyses the scope for, and constraints upon, deliberate interventions in institutional change. New institutionalist insights are used to illuminate the challenges faced by the British Labour government in its programme for modernizing local government. The focus is upon two core concepts: robustness and revisability - a pairing which highlights the potential contradictions that exist within the new i...
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作者：Kakabadse, A; Korac-Kakabadse, N; Kouzmin, A
作者单位：Cranfield University; Southern Cross University
摘要：yThree societies with similar initiatives for public service re-configuration and reform the UK, Canada and Australia-are examined to highlight the many-faceted issues of public service ethics and the different approaches these governments have taken to re-building public trust and enhancing public service ethics in times of rapid change. These efforts for re-building an ethical public service are scrutinized according to four criteria for effectively leading change. Changes of public service ...
