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作者：Moynihan, Donald P.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：The policy transfer literature identifies the importance of context in shaping policy selection. However, countries with distinctly different contexts are pursuing the agencification of the public sector. Why? The solution to this puzzle lies in the ambiguity associated with public management ideas, which allows policy adopters room to interpret management doctrines and experience. The result is that public management ideas that carry the same identifying label can mask variation in the unders...
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作者：De Bruijn, Hans; Dicke, Willemijn
作者单位：Delft University of Technology
摘要：In the utility sectors, public values such as affordability, safety, and protection of the environment, require safeguarding. In the last 15 years, most utilities have been either liberalized or privatized. In an attempt to protect public values under these new conditions, this shift has been accompanied by an emphasis on tight regulations and strict norms. These are examples of hierarchical safeguarding mechanisms. This mechanism can cause adverse effects, such as an increase in transaction c...
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作者：Jordan, Sara R.
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：Contemporary studies of administrative thought allow only a limited range of viability for medieval and non-Western thought on the subject of public administration. This tendency belies the wealth of thought embedded within this broad literature. This paper investigates the matter of administrative accountability and responsibility through the lens of a comparative theorist of historical administrative thought. In order to assess the explanatory potential of early and non-Western administrativ...
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作者：Jacobsen, DI
作者单位：University of Agder
摘要：The notion that appointed bureaucrats act as budget maximizers still stands strong within theories attempting to explain the growth in the size of the public sector. This paper reports the results of a case study that included local authority politicians and bureaucrats in 30 Norwegian municipalities and where differences in spending preferences was empirically investigated. Counter to the original theory, bureaucrats seem to be less expansive than their political counterparts. The most expans...
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作者：Verweij, Marco; Douglas, Mary; Ellis, Richard; Engel, Christoph; Hendriks, Frank; Lohmann, Susanne; Ney, Steven; Rayner, Steve; Thompson, Michael
作者单位：University of London; University College London; Max Planck Society; Tilburg University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Singapore Management University; University of Oxford; University of Bergen; Constructor University
摘要：Successful solutions to pressing social ills tend to consist of innovative combinations of a limited set of alternative ways of perceiving and resolving the issues. These contending policy perspectives justify, represent and stem from four different ways of organizing social relations: hierarchy, individualism, egalitarianism and fatalism. Each of these perspectives: (1) distils certain elements of experience and wisdom that are missed by the others; (2) provides a clear expression of the way ...
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作者：Kelly, Josie
作者单位：Aston University
摘要：This paper discusses how the UK government has reconfigured its regulation of English local authorities by moving from direct oversight to using an indirect independent agency as a vehicle of meta-governance. This theme is discussed through two strands: first, by examining how several factors eroded central government's capacity to directly regulate councils. The second strand examines the strategies used by the Audit Commission, an independent agency, to assert its authority over councils and...
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作者：Morrell, Kevin
摘要：Beginning with a brief review of the governance literature, a definition of governance in the National Health Service of England and Wales (NHS) is offered. This introduces an analysis of NHS reform, as presented in the recent policy literature. Using narrative theory, I critique this literature with reference to three key actors: the new organizational form of the 'Foundation Trust', NHS staff, and NHS patients. For each actor, a motif is identified and examined: 'freedom' for Foundation Trus...
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作者：Cowell, Richard
作者单位：Cardiff University
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作者：Noordegraaf, Mirko; Brandsen, Taco; Huitema, Dave
作者单位：Utrecht University; Tilburg University; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：This article is an attempt by three (relatively) young scholars to make sense of the broad field of public administration (PA), in The Netherlands, with particular emphasis on Dutch administrative sciences. The one essential fact about the Dutch administrative sciences is that they lack a real essence, both in institutional and in paradigmatic terms. They are fragmented - yet forceful. Nevertheless, we will argue, they must recast their position in relation to practitioners and other academics...
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作者：Halpin, Darren R.
作者单位：Robert Gordon University
摘要：Embracing 'groups' as means to address democratic deficiencies invites scrutiny of their democratic practices. However, many groups lack internal democratic practices and offer few opportunities for affiliates to participate. Guided by an implicit 'representation' narrative of groups, the absence of internal democratic practices is interpreted as a sign of 'failure' or 'deficiency'. Some scholars have entertained the idea of setting minimum standards of internal democracy as a prerequisite for...
