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作者：Wong, W; Welch, E
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要：Under the global pressure of information technology, the adoption of web-based technologies in public administration has created a new government-and-citizen interface. However, whether e-government will unambiguously lead to a more transparent, interactive, open and hence, accountable, government remains a central question. Applying a framework of global pressure effects on bureaucratic change, this paper conducts an empirical study on website openness and accountability in fourteen countries...
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作者：Alcock, P
作者单位：University of Birmingham
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作者：Oliver, MJ; Pemberton, H
摘要：Despite considerable interest in the means by which policy learning occurs, and in how it is that the framework of policy may be subject to radical change, the black box of economic policy making remains surprisingly murky. This article utilizes Peter Hall's concept of social learning to develop a more sophisticated model of policy learning; one in which paradigm failure does not necessarily lead to wholesale paradigm replacement, and in which an administrative battle of ideas may be just as i...
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作者：Van der Veen, RJ
作者单位：University of Twente
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作者：Alcock, P
作者单位：University of Birmingham
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作者：Eising, R
作者单位：Fern University Hagen
摘要：The article analyzes how business interests responded to European integration. It draws on survey data of eight hundred German, French, British, and European Union (EU) trade associations as well as thirty-four large firms. The argument is that the multilevel governance approach to European integration captures the realities of EU interest intermediation better than neofunctionalism and intergovernmentalism. The article suggests that the strategies of interest organizations depend mainly on th...
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作者：House, JD; McGrath, K
作者单位：Memorial University Newfoundland
摘要：Since the mid-1980s, the economy of the Republic of Ireland has displayed a remarkable turnaround. Its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown at a faster rate than any developed country in the world. The government's deficit has been cut severely and the debt-to-GDP ration sharply reduced. Average incomes have risen significantly, and the unemployment rate reduced dramatically. This article documents these changes. Its main purpose, however, is to provide a plausible explanation for the Irish ...
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作者：Markusen, AR
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. Pentagon has accelerated efforts to outsource weapons, battlefield and base support operations, and troop training, invoking competition-based savings and better quality. I review the arguments for and against such privatization and summarize recent Pentagon outsourcing experience. I conclude that the current enthusiasm for privatization is driven largely by commercial concerns and lobbying rather than real gains to the nation and citizens, that it poses dangers o...
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作者：Fitzgerald, K
作者单位：State University System of Florida; New College Florida
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作者：Verweij, M; Josling, TE
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：In Economy and Society, Max Weber posits that bureaucracies that are not reined in by either democratic controls or market discipline will eventually start to pursue public policies that are detrimental to those whose lives these policies should enable or improve. During the last ten years, a number of scholars, activists, parliamentarians, journalists and whistle-blowers have come to argue that Weber's hypothesis has often held up for the functioning of multilateral organizations, such as the...
