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作者：Currie, Graeme; Grubnic, Suzana; Hodges, Ron
作者单位：University of Warwick; University of Nottingham; University of Sheffield
摘要：In this article, the authors examine the implementation of policy aimed to promote the role of organizational networks and distributed leadership in the establishment and consolidation of public service reform. In theory, leadership and networks should complement each other, with the less hierarchical logic of the network allowing leadership of change, distributed among network members, rather than led from a single organizational apex, to flourish. In practice, as a consequence of inherent bu...
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作者：Spanou, Calliope; Sotiropoulos, Dimitri A.
作者单位：National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
摘要：In Greece, two distinct reform paths led to institutional building and economic managerial types of reform. These two reforms, with the exception of the period 1996-2004, when both institutional and economic reforms were attempted, did not attract the same degree of attention. Institutional reforms were more successful than attempts at managerial reforms; reform implementation on the other hand varies. Economic and managerial reforms can be observed with regard to economic competition, the ope...
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作者：Nilsson, Mans
作者单位：Stockholm Environment Institute; Royal Institute of Technology
摘要：The EU takes a growing interest in governing the energy sector in its member states. Competing with national institutions, policies and organizational structures, it is however not clear whether the EU exerts a strong influence compared to other factors, and if there is such an influence, the mechanisms are not well understood. This paper examines strategic reorientation towards electricity investment in the Swedish energy sector, a frontrunner case of Europeanization, and discusses how this c...
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作者：Kjaer, Anne Mette
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：This article discusses Rod Rhodes' contribution to governance theory. Rod Rhodes' work on governance has been much quoted. He has contributed to setting a new governance agenda and to an ongoing governance debate. This debate has also had an impact on political practice. However, as this paper argues, Rhodes' definition of governance is problematic in that it is narrowly identified with networks, and it is not consistently applied. Rhodes' concept of governance remains too narrow for it to be ...
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作者：Askim, Jostein; Fimreite, Anne Lise; Moseley, Alice; Pedersen, Lene Holm
作者单位：University of Oslo; University of Bergen; University of Exeter
摘要：In recent years welfare services in Western Europe have been criticized for poor coordination. In response, seamlessness has emerged as a vision for public administration with one-stop shops' viewed as means to reach this. This article conceptualizes the one-stop shop and presents a three country case study to examine its drivers and its adaptation. In all countries the reforms meant mergers driven by hopes for a single entrance to services as well as proximity to citizens. However, the analys...
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作者：Baccaro, Lucio; Mele, Valentina
作者单位：University of Geneva; Bocconi University
摘要：This paper analyses the two most important international programmes for the voluntary regulation of corporate behaviour: the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Corporations and the UN Global Compact. It argues that international organizations adopted them mostly for reasons of political feasibility: by imposing minimal constraints on constituents the codes circumvented the most pressing problems of political acceptability associated with standard setting. It finds no clear evidence, however, th...
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作者：Matthews, Judy; Ryan, Neal; Williams, Trevor
作者单位：Queensland University of Technology (QUT); Southern Cross University
摘要：This paper examines data collected from senior executives in two Australian government agencies to identify patterns of adaptive and maladaptive responses to change in public sector environments. The conceptual categories of passive maladaptive, active maladaptive and active adaptive responses are all supported by the interview data, with half of the executives expressing predominantly active adaptive responses to external change and uncertainty and half displaying various kinds of passive and...
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作者：Ongaro, Edoardo
作者单位：Bocconi University; Bocconi University
摘要：This article applies broad conceptual categories of comparative politics to the explanation of administrative reforms in Italy. It takes as its argument some lines of influence on public sector reform of the features of the party system in Italy, the executive-legislative balance, the politician-bureaucrat relationship, and the role of administrative law. In the search for explanations for the trajectory of administrative reform, pre-existing political and institutional factors also have to be...
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作者：Van de Walle, Steven; Van Ryzin, Gregg G.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要：Surveys of citizen satisfaction with local public services have become widespread, with the results increasingly used to reorganize services, to allocate budgets, and to hold managers accountable. But evidence from a split-ballot experiment that we conducted suggests that the order of questions in a citizen survey has important effects on reported satisfaction with specific public services as well as overall citizen satisfaction. Moreover, the correlations of specific service ratings with over...
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作者：Hay, Colin
作者单位：University of Sheffield
摘要：This article seeks to gauge the nature, distinctiveness and significance of the 'interpretivist turn' in public administration and political science more broadly. It considers the various interpretations and, indeed, misinterpretations to which this new hermeneutics of public administration has given rise, its relationship to (genuinely and seemingly) cognate perspectives (notably constructivism, the new institutionalism and critical realism) and its strengths and weaknesses - both as an analy...
