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• Scottish devolution: Identity and impact and the case of community care for the elderly AI翻译
  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...
• Constituting 'the public' in public participation AI翻译
  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...
• Balancing revisability and robustness? A new institutionalist perspective on local government modernization AI翻译
  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...
• Policy networks and the GM crops issue: Assessing the utility of a dialectical model of policy networks AI翻译
  作者：Toke, D; Marsh, D
  作者单位：University of Birmingham
  摘要：A dialectical model of policy networks is deployed to analyse policy change in the area of GM crops in the UK. The model uses an analysis of the interaction between agents and structure, network and context and network and outcomes to understand and explain how policy change has occurred. A key advantage of the model is that it increases understanding of network transformation, explanation of which has been an alleged weakness of the policy network approach. However, this case study does throw...
• Local public management reforms in the Netherlands: Fads, fashions and winds of change AI翻译
  作者：Hendriks, F; Tops, P
  作者单位：Tilburg University
  摘要：Compared to other continental European countries, especially Germany and Switzerland, which have experimented with New Public Management (NPM) in local government, The Netherlands has been relatively quick in following trends stemming from Anglo-Saxon management thinking, but also relatively quick in redressing its course. The rise of the New Public Management in Dutch local government has been relatively swift and strong but also relatively superficial and non-committal. The dominant picture ...