Public Administration

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• Making the core contingent: Professional agency work and its consequences in UK social services AI翻译
  作者：Hoque, Kim; Kirkpatrick, Ian
  作者单位：University of Nottingham; University of Leeds
  摘要：In recent times, the UK has witnessed a steady growth in the use of agency workers to fill core professional roles in public sector organizations. Similar trends have been noted elsewhere, particularly in Australia and the US. In this paper our objective is to explore some of the consequences of this growth, drawing on case study research on social services. We point to a number of problems associated with the management of agency workers and to the potentially negative consequences for the qu...
• Queer(y)ing public administration AI翻译
  作者：Lee, Hugh; Learmonth, Mark; Harding, Nancy
  作者单位：University of Leeds; University of Nottingham; University of Bradford
  摘要：Queer theory, understood here as a set of political/politicized practices and positions which resist normative knowledge and identities, has emerged as a theoretical perspective having important emancipatory and explanatory power in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Queer theory resists definition ipso facto, residing as it does within a postructuralist paradigm. It has not hitherto featured within the discipline of public administration and we argue the case for its utilisation in thi...
• EXCHANGE WITHOUT CAPTURE: THE UK FINANCIAL OMBUDSMAN SERVICE'S STRUGGLE FOR ACCEPTED DOMAIN AI翻译
  作者：Gilad, Sharon
  作者单位：University of London; King's College London; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)
  摘要：This article explores the formation of public organizations' 'domain perception', that is, their internal interpretation and external articulation of their role and its boundaries. The analysis is based on non-participant observation research of the UK Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), and archival research of its predecessor organization, which handled consumer complaints regarding the retail selling of financial products. I show that the FOS's articulation of its domain emphasized the stric...
• CONTINUITY AND CHANGE: THE ROLE OF THE HR FUNCTION IN THE MODERN PUBLIC SECTOR AI翻译
  作者：Truss, Catherine
  摘要：As the public sector has modernized and sought to become more efficient and cost-effective, the effective and strategic management of people has received increasing prominence and there have been calls for the Human Resource (HR) function to play a more strategic role. However, not much is known about whether the role of the HR function has changed substantively. In this paper, we present empirical evidence from six matched-pair public sector organizations in the UK to assess whether HR functi...
• 'To be, but not to be seen': Exploring the impact of international civil servants AI翻译
  作者：Xu Yi-Chong; Weller, Patrick
  作者单位：Griffith University
  摘要：International civil servants (ICS) are largely excluded from the analysis of International Organizations (IOs) because states are assumed to be the determining force in shaping their behaviour. Even principal-agent and constructivist analyses often treat an IO's staff as a unit and are concerned primarily with states' capacities to control IOs. Examining the opportunities of ICS, rather than the choices of states, provides a better means of understanding the capacities of ICS to contribute to ...
• Embryonic associationalism: New Labour and urban governance AI翻译
  作者：Bache, Ian; Catney, Philip
  作者单位：University of Sheffield; Keele University
  摘要：This article considers the role of ideas in New Labour's approach to the governance of urban regeneration and characterizes this approach as 'embryonic associationalism'. This approach contrasts with the economic rationalism of previous Conservative governments and leads to a more determined effort to empower local community groups within the policy process. We analyse the effects of this shift in approach in practice through a comparative case study of changing patterns of governance in diffe...
• EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION: THE THIRD WAY AND PFI AI翻译
  作者：Connolly, Ciaran; Martin, Gary; Wall, Anthony
  作者单位：Queens University Belfast; Ulster University
  摘要：In 1997, New Labour set about the task of reforming public services in the United Kingdom through the use of an ideology that became known as the 'Third Way'. This research examines the context from which this concept emerged, and explores its relationship with the tools of delivery, with particular reference to the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). The paper begins by reviewing the Third Way, before analysing the arguments for and against PFI. Using an example from the Northern Ireland educat...
• Democratic network governance in Europe AI翻译
  作者：Kooiman, Jan
  作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Rethinking policy options for industry: Appropriateness in policies for industry and UK farming and food AI翻译
  作者：Cox, Andrew; Chicksand, Daniel
  作者单位：University of Birmingham; University of Birmingham
  摘要：This article assesses the appropriateness of lean supply and partnership relationship management policies as a means of invigorating industry, using the example of the UK pig and beef industry. The analysis assesses the extent to which it is operationally feasible, and with what commercial consequences, in UK pig and beef supply chains and markets. The analysis demonstrates that the lean and partnering approach is not always operationally feasible. Furthermore, when it is operationally feasibl...
• The Europeanizatrion of British politics AI翻译
  作者：Connolly, Michael
  作者单位：University of South Wales