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作者：Orenstein, M
作者单位：Syracuse University
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作者：Torres, L; Pina, V; Acerete, B
作者单位：University of Zaragoza
摘要：At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the challenge to governments is to improve citizens' trust in governments. The Internet aids good governance by increasing transparency and customer-oriented service delivery. During the last few years, European Union local governments have expanded their presence on the Internet. This article presents empirical evidence on the nature of e-governance initiatives in cities across Europe. The findings could be of interest to cities interested in dete...
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作者：Lee, Eliza W. Y.; Haque, M. Shamsul
作者单位：University of Hong Kong; National University of Singapore
摘要：This article compares the New Public Management (NPM) reform in Hong Kong and Singapore. First of all, it highlights how the macroeconomic environment, the political system, and state traditions, factors that are commonly identified as affecting the pattern of NPM reform in western liberal democracies, assume different contexts and significance in affecting reform in Asian states. With these general factors, we further compare the NPM reform of these two Asian newly industrialized countries in...
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作者：Svensson, T; Mabuchi, M; Kamikawa, R
作者单位：Uppsala University; Kyoto University; University of Osaka
摘要：Sweden and Japan represent two different positions regarding policymaking when faced with similar crises of the bank systems. Different institutional settings led the main actors to different paths of reactions in order to avoid blame. In the Japanese case, the very close relationship between private banks and the Ministry of Finance, in combination with the lesser degree of widespread perceptions of a system crisis, made it more urgent as well as possible to conceal the actual state of affair...
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作者：Thelen, K; Kume, I
作者单位：Northwestern University; Waseda University
摘要：The purpose of this article is to explore the political dynamics of employer coordination in three well-known coordinated market economies. We examine differences in how employer coordination has been organized in Sweden, Germany, and Japan in the area of industrial relations, and we examine the extent to which such coordination represents a self-sustaining equilibrium, as some of the most influential treatments suggest. To preview the findings, we argue that precisely the intensification of c...
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作者：Capling, A; Nossal, KR
作者单位：University of Melbourne; Queens University - Canada
摘要：The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) gave unprecedented rights to private investors. These provisions quickly became entrenched in policy and practice, appearing in most multilateral and bilateral trade agreements in the 1990s as American investors began to bring Canada and Mexico to arbitration. However, the Australia-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) of 2004 contained no such provisions. The purpose of this article is to explain why enthusiasm for NAFTA-style protections waned so...
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作者：Painter, M
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong
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作者：Barzelay, Michael; Gallego, Raquel
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Autonomous University of Barcelona
摘要：Research on public management reform has taken a decidedly disciplinary turn. Since the late 1990s, analytical issues are less often framed in terms of the New Public Management. As part of the disciplinary turn, much recent research on public management reform is highly influenced by the three new institutionalisms. However, these studies have implicitly been challenged by a competing research program on public management reform that is emphatically processual in its theoretical foundations. ...
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作者：Levi-Faur, David
作者单位：Australian National University; University of Haifa
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作者：Howlett, M; Rayner, J
作者单位：Simon Fraser University; Vancouver Island University
摘要：New policy initiatives are increasingly embedded in novel governance strategies. These new modes of governance differ from existing policy mixes in that they are specifically designed to reduce the number of instances of counterproductive policy instrument use; to function effectively and meet public policy goals in an era of decreased national state capacity and autonomy; and rely much more heavily than existing instrument mixes have done on the involvement of private actors in both policy fo...
