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作者：Dixon, Ruth; Arndt, Christiane; Mullers, Manuel; Vakkuri, Jarmo; Engblom-Pelkkala, Kristiina; Hood, Christopher
作者单位：University of Oxford; Maastricht University; Tampere University
摘要：Educational performance rankings elicit extensive press coverage and varied political responses. To investigate how the negativity of press coverage was related to the rankings results and political response, we compared the domestic press coverage of two educational rankings (the 2006 editions of the OECD's Progress in Student Achievement (PISA) and the IEA's Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)) in four European countries (Germany, Finland, France, and Britain). We found ...
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作者：Powell, Martin
作者单位：University of Birmingham
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作者：Carter, Bob; Danford, Andy; Howcroft, Debra; Richardson, Helen; Smith, Andrew; Taylor, Phil
作者单位：De Montfort University; University of West England; University of Manchester; Lulea University of Technology; University of Salford; University of Bradford; University of Strathclyde
摘要：The prevailing economic and budgetary climate is intensifying the search for methods and practices aimed at generating efficiencies in public sector provision. This paper investigates the increasingly popular bundle of techniques operating under the generic descriptor of lean, which promises to improve operational quality processes while simultaneously reducing cost. It offers a critical appraisal of lean as a fashionable component of public sector reform and challenges the received wisdom tha...
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作者：Donnelly, Caitlin
作者单位：Queens University Belfast
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作者：Hood, Christopher; Dixon, Ruth
作者单位：University of Oxford; University of Oxford
摘要：New Public Management (NPM), particularly in its early stages in the 1980s, is often said to have concentrated on cost-cutting and efficiency, but few studies have examined how far NPM succeeded in cutting costs. Focusing on UK central government, often claimed to be a leading case of NPM, and analyzing three sets of data (for running costs, tax collection costs, and paybill), this study finds little evidence of real running cost reductions in the early NPM era. It concludes that, contrary to ...
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作者：Coletti, Paola; Radaelli, Claudio M.
作者单位：University of Exeter
摘要：European governments have adopted policy instruments for regulatory appraisal, oversight, ex-post evaluation, and simplification in the context of the so-called smart regulation agenda'. In this article we compare the two most important instruments, that is, regulatory impact assessment (RIA) and the standard cost model (SCM). We answer the following questions: What are the economic rationales that, at least in principle, should make the SCM and RIA work? What are the learning models that, yet...
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作者：Kuisma, Mikko
作者单位：Oxford Brookes University
摘要：This symposium explores the role of ideas in welfare crises and transformations. Some of the key concerns are introduced in this article. First, it is argued that, rather than developing intentionalist accounts that explore ways in which elites use ideas as strategic tools, we should also pay attention to how ideas are expressed in public philosophies, collective memories, and logics of appropriateness. Second, it argues that crisis narratives are too often discussed in terms of times of crise...
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作者：Bach, Tobias; Ruffing, Eva
作者单位：Leibniz University Hannover
摘要：The environment of national agencies has changed considerably in recent years as they increasingly become engaged in European Union networks. This article contributes to a growing body of literature on those networks and their effect on executive politics at the national level by asking whether and how the EU involvement of national agencies affects the agencies' autonomy in policy formulation. We develop an analytical model for explaining the effect of EU involvement on agency autonomy. Analy...
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作者：Braun, Caelesta; Van den Berg, Caspar
作者单位：University of Antwerp; Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
摘要：Consultation of major interest groups is a widespread administrative practice in many EU member states. To date it is unclear, however, how advancing European integration influences domestic consultation practices. This article examines the impact of European integration on domestic consultation practices by conceptualizing how the underlying rationales of government-interest group interactions and the level of involvement of interest groups are affected by European integration. The study draw...
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作者：Mcgregor, Pat; Mckee, Patricia; O'Neill, Ciaran
作者单位：Ulster University; Ollscoil na Gaillimhe-University of Galway
摘要：In this article we compare the pattern of service utilization in the period preceding the health-care reforms introduced by New Labour with service utilization following the refoms. Data from the 1997 and 2003 waves of the British Household Panel Survey are used to estimate a series of utilization functions. These show that GP utilization overall fell, for women more than men and for the sick more than others. The results suggest that GPs responded to the changing context the reforms created b...
