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作者:Rosamond, B
作者单位:University of Warwick
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作者:Massey, A
作者单位:University of Portsmouth
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作者:Connolly, M
作者单位:University of South Wales
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作者:Bulmer, S; Burch, M
作者单位:University of Manchester
摘要:In this paper we review - from a UK perspective - how the UK government and its policy process have adapted to European integration. Has adaptation been a quiet revolution, a step-change, or both? In exploring this question we draw upon the conceptual literature of Europeanization. We employ it to shed light on the longer-term pattern of UK adaptation as well as to put into context the domestic changes currently under way. Our argument is that a step-change is under way in the Europeanization ...
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作者:Guillén, AM
作者单位:University of Oviedo
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作者:Rosamond, B
作者单位:University of Warwick
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作者:Andrews, R; Boyne, GA; Law, J; Walker, RM
作者单位:Cardiff University; University of South Wales; Cardiff University; University of Hong Kong
摘要:Central government in the UK has introduced performance management regimes that apply rewards and sanctions to local service providers. These regimes assume that organizational performance is attributable to decisions made by local policy-makers rather than circumstances beyond their control. We test this assumption by developing a statistical model of external constraints on service standards and applying this model to the outcomes of comprehensive performance assessment (CPA) in English loca...
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作者:Kay, A
作者单位:Griffith University
摘要:Path dependency is an important notion in diachronic approaches to understanding social and political processes. The first section of this paper examines the application of path dependency to policy studies; the advantages of the concept in understanding policy development are highlighted by examples from pension policy and social housing policy in the UK, and the EU budget. The next section considers several criticisms of path dependency: (1) it is a fashionable label for the intuition that '...
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作者:Stevens, A
作者单位:University of Kent
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作者:McEwen, N
作者单位:University of Edinburgh