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作者：Bennett, CJ
摘要：This article examines different explanations for the cross-national diffusion of three recent innovations in bureaucratic accountability-the institution of the ombudsman, freedom of information legislation and data protection (information privacy) law. The first two explanations a-re based on the assumption that these innovations are by-products of modernization, either the growth of the state or democratization. The third assumes that policy is shaped through processes of international commun...
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作者：Smyrl, ME
作者单位：College of the Holy Cross
摘要：A central goal of the 1980s reforms gf the European Community's regional development policy was to contribute to an increase in the discretionary authority of sub-national decision-makers in the Community's member states. This article assesses the degree to which this goal was attained through comparative studies of selected French and Italian regions. It concludes that only in those regions in which timely policy entrepreneurship on the part of regional-level elected leaders coincided with th...
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作者：Eisner, MA; Worsham, J; Ringquist, E
作者单位：West Virginia University; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：This article critically examines the key assumptions of the positive theory of political control. The authors argue that the key assumptions of the theory are pawed and that these flaws seriously limit the importance of much research in the field of regulatory studies. The authors develop a set of new assumptions which would reorient the regulatory studies and force researchers to give greater attention to the role of the bureaucracy in political bureaucratic relations.
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作者：Boase, JP
摘要：This article uses the case of health insurance policy in the United States and Canada, to try to explain how particular state-societal patterns of intermediation unfold, become institutionalized and effect quite different policy strategies. It begins by outlining the importance of formal political and administrative institutional structure in the exercise of autonomous state action. It then examines the concepts of policy community and policy network as state-specific vehicles of interest inte...
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作者：Haque, MS
摘要：During the second and third quarters of this century, the scope of public service expanded significantly in almost all societies irrespective of their social, economic, political, and ideological predilections. In the past, such an expansive public bureaucracy came under criticism for its various shortcomings and pathological implications. However, recently, a move serious form of assault on the public service has been introduced by the proponents of the current privatization movement. The adv...
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作者：Campbell, C; Peters, BG
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
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作者：March, JG; Olsen, JP
作者单位：University of Oslo
摘要：This article examines some basic assumptions about the nature of politicaI institutions, the ways in which practices and rules that comprise institutions are established, sustained, and transformed, and the ways in which those practices and rules are converted into political behavior through the mediation of interpretation and capability. We discuss an institutional approach to political life that emphasizes the endogenous nature and social construction of political institutions, identities, a...
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作者：Eberlein, B
摘要：This article focuses on new patterns of territorial governance in the aftermath of the 1982 decentralization reforms in France. The traditional ''cross regulation'' model developed by the Crozier school is wrong to assume culturally grounded stalemate and to suggest that local political power is nothing more than the informal access of local elites to national policymaking. Analyzing the policy of technopoles or science park development, both nationally and by way of detailed local case studie...
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作者：Wise, LR; Szucs, S
作者单位：University of Gothenburg
摘要：This study contributes to the growing literature on differences in attitudes between public and private sector employees, particularly with respect to their receptivity or resistance to public management reforms. We begin by asking the question: to what degree does perceived self-interest play a role in accounting for attitudes toward public management reforms such as downsizing, privatization, and public spending? Using attitudinal data from Sweden, a social welfare state with a large public ...
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作者：HUQUE, AS
摘要：Development programs in Bangladesh have been affected in the past by unequal emphasis on infrastructure and people-building. Some programs emphasize the hardware of development, which provides physical facilities that are supposed to make life move comfortable for rural citizens. The hardware must be supplemented by software, which will enable rural inhabitants to make optimum utilization of physical facilities, This important aspect has been neglected in the past, although some programs made ...
