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作者：Goodwin, Mark; Grix, Jonathan
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：We reflect upon the 'governance narrative' as a means of conceptualizing recent developments in the British state. Recent public administration research has advocated a 'decentred approach' that would reject the linear narrative of a shift from hierarchical to network governance. We seek to build on 'decentring' theorists' critique of existing governance literature by offering case studies of the education and sport policy communities, arguing that the 'new' governance form is present in these...
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作者：Nolte, Isabella M.; Boenigk, Silke
作者单位：University of Hamburg
摘要：During disasters, partnerships between public and nonprofit organizations are vital to provide fast relief to affected communities. In this article, we develop a process model to support a performance evaluation of such intersectoral partnerships. The model includes input factors, organizational structures, outputs and the long-term outcomes of publicnonprofit partnerships. These factors derive from theory and a systematic literature review of emergency, public, nonprofit, and network research...
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作者：Roiseland, Asbjorn
作者单位：Nord University
摘要：The article discusses institutional forms of governance, understanding governance as hybrid forms of collaboration, involving government, market actors and/or civil society actors. By utilizing data from a study made of three Norwegian cities, six collaborative efforts are presented, and discussed in relation to analytical characteristics derived from both network theory and organizational theory. This analysis illustrates that these collaboration efforts can, on the one hand, be understood as...
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作者：Lindholst, Andrej Christian; Bogetoft, Peter
作者单位：University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen Business School
摘要：In this article, we address a series of interrelated issues in the managerial challenge of public service contracting. This is done by prompting ten issues within four objectives and highlighting their relevance and potential interrelatedness in effective contract management. In contrast to prevalent piecemeal and theoretically one-dimensional approaches, the objectives and issues constitute a holistic framework that advances a comprehensive and pragmatic understanding of contracting processes...
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作者：Steijn, Bram; Klijn, Erik-Hans; Edelenbos, Jurian
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：The central idea of public private partnerships (PPPs) is that added value can be achieved from greater co-operation between public and private actors. In general, the literature speaks of PPPs in which public and private actors develop a more or less sustainable co-operation through which they realize products, services, or policies together, share risks, and develop an organizational form to arrange this. The assumption is that a higher degree of PPP leads to more and better outcomes because...
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作者：Boerzel, Tanja A.
作者单位：Free University of Berlin
摘要：This article will discuss the contribution of Rod Rhodes to the research on networks. I will focus on networks as a typology of state/society relations and as a particular form of governance. It is not only here that Rhodes has left his deepest mark; most research on networks still falls in one of the two sub-fields. The typology of policy networks, which he developed with David Marsh more than 15 years ago, has become a classic and still forms a major reference point for studies on public pol...
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作者：Dowding, Keith; John, Peter
作者单位：Australian National University; University of London; University College London
摘要：Using data from a five-year online survey the paper examines the effects of relative satisfaction with health services on individuals' voice-and-choice activity in the English public health care system. Voice is considered in three parts individual voice (complaints), collective voice voting and participation (collective action). Exercising choice is seen in terms of complete exit (not using health care), internal exit (choosing another public service provider) and private exit (using private ...
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作者：Nasi, Greta; Frosini, Francesca; Cristofoli, Daniela
作者单位：Universita della Svizzera Italiana
摘要：The employment of information and communication technologies for the delivery of information and services has been considered a major objective of the modernization agenda of municipalities. This article contributes to the advances in the e-government literature by assessing the current status of ICT adoption among larger Italian municipalities and investigating whether the municipalities at a more mature stage of e-government adoption share any distinctive characteristics. The results show th...
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作者：West, Karen; Davis, Paul
作者单位：Aston University
摘要：There has been a resurgence of interest in values in recent public administration research, based on two distinct arguments. For different reasons, neither approach is likely to secure a robust normative basis for public endeavours. These reasons are assessed, using an alternative body of theory rooted in contemporary social theory that we term, 'new pragmatism'. New pragmatic ideas are deployed to critique the divorce of values from facts; the abstraction of values from concrete situations; t...
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作者：Gains, Francesca
作者单位：University of Manchester
摘要：This article celebrates Rod Rhodes' use of ethnography to study political elites 'up close and personal'. Initially Rhodes' work is contextualized within the development of political ethnography more generally, before his ethnographies of 'Everyday life in a Ministry' are reviewed, illustrating the potential of ethnography to research policy-making elites. This review highlights epistemological and ontological questions which link to criticism of Rhodes' work as taking an anti-foundational sta...
