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作者：O'Reilly, Dermot; Reed, Mike
作者单位：Lancaster University; Cardiff University
摘要：This paper argues that 'leaderism' - as an emerging set of beliefs that frames and justifies certain innovatory changes in contemporary organizational and managerial practice - is a development of managerialism that has been utilized and applied within the policy discourse of public service reform in the UK. The paper suggests that 'leaderism' is an evolution of entrepreneurial and cultural management ideologies and practices. An analysis of the articulation of leaderism with public service re...
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作者：Hardiman, Niamh; Scott, Colin
作者单位：University College Dublin; University College Dublin
摘要：State institutions mediate the challenges of globalization for the domestic political community: the concerns of specialists in comparative politics and in public administration are increasingly converging round an interest in the nature and functioning of state institutions. This paper draws on preliminary findings from a time-series database of national-level political institutions in Ireland to track continuity and change in state functions through analysis of state agencies. It also identi...
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作者：Toke, David
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：Policy network analysis is criticized for being a 'heuristic' device, yet 'heuristic' methods may be essential to achieve detailed understandings of specific policy outcomes. Rational choice modelling alone cannot perform a similar function. This paper develops a 'heuristic' policy network approach that focuses on the analysis of actor resources. Changing contexts can alter the resource distributions of actors within a policy community. This can lead to new policy outcomes. Policy networks can...
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作者：Klijn, Erik-Hans; Steijn, Bram; Edelenbos, Jurian
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：There is a large amount of literature and research on network management strategies. However, only a limited portion of this literature examines the relationship between network management strategies and outcomes (for an exception, see Meier and O'Toole 2001). Most of the research focuses on managerial activity or networking rather than on the question of which types of strategies matter the most for outcomes of complex processes in networks. This paper attempts to address the question of whet...
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作者：Lowe, Philip; Feindt, Peter H.; Vihinen, Hilkka
作者单位：Newcastle University - UK; Cardiff University; Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
摘要：In response to wide-ranging criticism of agricultural policy, especially within Western industrialized countries, new frameworks of justification are emerging and new hybrid policy fields have been established to tackle some of the 'externalities' of agricultural support. However, institutional frameworks are proving slower to change, partly because this would require coordinated action across different levels of governance. Nevertheless, previously marginalized environmental concerns have suc...
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作者：May, Christopher
作者单位：Lancaster University
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作者：Mele, Valentina; Compagni, Amelia
作者单位：Bocconi University
摘要：The approval (2003) and enforcement (2005) of a smoking ban in Italy have been viewed by many as an unexpectedly successful example of policy change. The present paper, by applying a processualist approach, concentrates on two policy cycles between 2000 and 2005. These had opposing outcomes: an incomplete decisional stage and an authoritative decision, enforced two years later. Through the analysis of the different phases of agenda setting, alternative specification and decision making, we hav...
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作者：Collantes, Fernando
作者单位：University of Zaragoza
摘要：The article analyses the Spanish experience of EU compensatory rural policy in order to contribute to broader debates on the effectiveness of this kind of policy and the role of agriculture in the definition of European rural policies. In the case of Spain, compensatory allowances to mainly mountain farmers had little effect on economic trajectories or social cohesion because of the small sums involved, the exclusion of those with very small farms, and the decreasing role of agriculture in the...
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作者：McMurray, Robert
作者单位：Durham University
摘要：For over three decades public services have been the subject of unprecedented change. Nowhere has this been more evident than in the English National Health Service (NHS) where despite the effort expended on change there is growing evidence that such restructuring is largely ineffective. Drawing on a study of culture modification in the English NHS, this paper utilizes Chia's (1999) account of the metaphysics of processual change to consider why attempts to restructure public services are not ...
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作者：Skelcher, Chris
作者单位：University of Birmingham
