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• How low can you go? Rationales and challenges for neighbourhood governance AI翻译
  作者：Lowndes, Vivien; Sullivan, Helen
  作者单位：De Montfort University; University of West England
  摘要：Associated with innovation in both democratic practice and service design, neighbourhoods are high on policy agendas across Europe. Drawing upon classic debates about size and devolution, the article identifies four distinct rationales for neighbourhood governance: civic, social, political and economic. In England, the 'new localism' agenda gets near to developing a comprehensive case for neighbourhood governance, drawing upon all four rationales. Options for institutional design are explored ...
• Public sector innovation for Europe: A multinational eight-country exploration of citizens' perspectives AI翻译
  作者：Vigoda-Gadot, Eran; Shoham, Aviv; Schwabsky, Nitza; Ruvio, Ayalla
  作者单位：University of Haifa; University of Haifa; University of Haifa
  摘要：This study presents a three-year effort to study public sector innovation in Europe from the viewpoint of the citizen. It examines a model of public sector innovation across a multinational sample of eight countries and 626 participants. The paper develops a theory of antecedents to and consequences of innovation in public administration as perceived by knowledgeable citizens and end-users. Participants were senior and mid-level managers of third sector organizations that work closely with cit...
• POLICY TRANSFER IN EUROPEAN UNION GOVERNANCE. REGULATING THE UTILITIES AI翻译
  作者：Yesilkagit, Kutsal
  作者单位：Utrecht University
• The new governance of the English regions AI翻译
  作者：Ayres, Sarah
  作者单位：University of Bristol
• Benchmarking in the public sector: A critical conceptual framework AI翻译
  作者：Triantafillou, Peter
  作者单位：Roskilde University
  摘要：How can we critically address benchmarking? By conceptualizing benchmarking as a normalizing governing technology, a space is cleared for analysing some of the power relations brought into play in benchmarking activities. As a device of power, benchmarking depends upon the production of normalizing knowledge and the freedom or self-governing capacities of those who are benchmarked. The fruitfulness of this conception is illustrated through an example from the Danish hospital system.
• Civil service reform in the UK, 1999-2005: Revolutionary failure or evolutionary success? AI翻译
  作者：Bovaird, Tony; Russell, Ken
  作者单位：University of Birmingham; Robert Gordon University; University of Aberdeen
  摘要：In December 1999, the UK Civil Service Management Board agreed an internal reform programme, complementing the more externally-oriented 'modernizing government' programme, to bring about major changes in the functioning of the civil service - 'step change' rather than continuous improvement. This paper suggests that the aims of the reform programme were only partially achieved. While some step changes did indeed occur, even such central elements of reform as 'joined-up' working with other publ...
• Improving UK public services: A review of the evidence AI翻译
  作者：Hodgson, Lesley; Farrell, Catherine M.; Connolly, Michael
  作者单位：University of South Wales
  摘要：Over a number of years in the UK, public service improvement has been at the centre of both Conservative and Labour policy. Keen to make improvements in public services, the current Labour government is pursuing this issue more strongly than any other. This paper examines the concept of improvement and reviews the academic literature which has empirically assessed improvements in a range of public services. Drawn from over 50 studies of improvement, the evidence highlights seven determinants o...
• Supranational governance or national business-as-usual? The national administration of EU structural funds in the Netherlands and Denmark AI翻译
  作者：Yesilkagit, Kutsal; Blom-Hansen, Jens
  作者单位：Utrecht University; Aarhus University
  摘要：The partnership principle in EU cohesion policy was introduced in order to involve subnational authorities and interest organizations in policy formulation and implementation. In this article we examine how the member states have reacted to this call for a new way of making public policy. We argue that the multi-level governance literature and the critics of the multi-level governance framework have not examined implementation structures properly, but have focused on regional influence. We con...
• Policy transfer in practice: Implementing supplier diversity in the UK AI翻译
  作者：Ram, Monder; Theodorakopoulos, Nick; Worthington, Ian
  作者单位：De Montfort University; De Montfort University
  摘要：This article draws on the policy transfer literature to examine a UK-based initiative to promote supplier diversity and provides insights into three areas neglected in current research, namely: the dynamics of non-governmental policy transfer; the factors that mediate policy transfer in different jurisdictions; and the integration of research and practice in small business related policy transfer. To this end, an innovative action research approach is deployed with the dual purpose of effectin...
• Public sector reform in Dutch higher education: The organizational transformation of the university AI翻译
  作者：De Boer, Harry F.; Enders, Juergen; Leisyte, Liudvika
  作者单位：University of Twente
  摘要：During the past few decades traditional state-centred governing arrangements have been critiqued and replaced by alternative modes of governance. Higher education is one of the public sectors where such shifts in governance have been seen. As a consequence of the reshuffling of authority and responsibilities across the different levels in Dutch higher education, universities as organizations have become important foci of attention in the system's coordination. The main question addressed in th...