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• Path dependency and the reform of English local government AI翻译
  作者：Gains, F; John, PC; Stoker, G
  作者单位：University of Manchester
  摘要：This paper uses the concept of path dependency to examine the changes to the political management structures of English local government. We note how the possible experience of decreasing returns among some local authority actors combined with the powerful intervention of politicians within New Labour at the national level led to a significant break from past policy and the imposition of measures to establish a separate executive that was claimed as a radical step forward for local democracy. ...
• Joined-up government and privacy in the United Kingdom: Managing tensions between data protection and social policy. Part I AI翻译
  作者：Six, P; Raab, C; Bellamy, C
  作者单位：Nottingham Trent University; University of Edinburgh
  摘要：The Labour government that came to power in the United Kingdom in 1997 made much of its commitment to 'joined-up working', by which it meant horizontal integration between policies and co-ordination across services. The particular manner in which it pursued this commitment has led to growing pressure for the sharing of citizens' personal information among public service agencies. Yet at the same time, Parliament was engaged in implementing the European Data Protection Directive with a new Data...
• Post-contractual lock-in and the UK Private Finance Initiative (PFI): The cases of national savings and investments and the Lord Chancellor's Department AI翻译
  作者：Lonsdale, C
  作者单位：University of Birmingham
  摘要：According to the UK government, one of the key features of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is the scope it provides to transfer risk to private sector suppliers. Under the PFI, public bodies are expected to develop interdependent relationships with suppliers that allow risk to be transferred. However, it is the argument of the author that it will not always be possible for interdependent relationships to be engineered by public bodies - on many occasions, public bodies will find themselve...
• New public management in Austria: Local variation on a global theme? AI翻译
  作者：Hammerschmid, G; Meyer, RE
  作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business
  摘要：This article tracks public sector reform in Austria with a focus on the influence of New Public Management (NPM) both as label and as specific set of reform ideas. We analyse to what degree current reforms have been influenced and shaped by this widely acclaimed international trend. In this empirical study we combine the different data sources of media coverage, reform documents and public sector executive survey to cover different levels of analysis. Although the reforms include NPM-features,...
• A century of premiers: Salisbury to Blair AI翻译
  作者：Jones, GW
  作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• Policy punctuations in Danish local budgeting AI翻译
  作者：Mortensen, PB
  作者单位：Aarhus University
  摘要：The central prediction in Baumgartner and Jones' (1993) punctuated equilibrium theory is that over time, public policy will be characterized by a certain pattern of stability now and then interrupted by punctuations. This paper extends the study of punctuated equilibrium theory in two ways. First, I examine whether this prediction is met in a non-US-based political system like Danish local government. Second, I conduct a comparative investigation of stability and punctuations in four public po...
• On the relationship between political science and administrative science in Germany AI翻译
  作者：Bogumil, J
  作者单位：Ruhr University Bochum
  摘要：The theoretical and empirical analysis of administrative activities has been an important area of research since the establishment of political science as an academic discipline in Germany at the end of the 1960s. But is administrative science still a significant part of political science in Germany today? 1 argue here that in Germany a political science oriented administrative science has developed from a science focused on public administration, that is, on organizational questions, to one f...
• Changing local government: A review of the local government modernisation programme AI翻译
  作者：Connolly, M
  作者单位：University of South Wales
• How to improve the outcome of state welfare services. Governance in a systems-theoretical perspective AI翻译
  作者：Andersen, SC
  作者单位：Aarhus University
  摘要：Much governance literature deals with the limited capacity of the state and the market to govern core state welfare services such as education, scientific research and healthcare. Rather less attention has been focused on how the outcome of these services can be improved politically. An analysis of Niklas Luhmann's systems theory (Luhmann 1997a, 2000) leads to the hypothesis that self-governance, that is, a combination of professional autonomy and public peer-evaluation, is a superior strategy...
• Three versions of Stoker AI翻译
  作者：Orr, K
  作者单位：University of Hull
  摘要：This article offers an assessment of the writings of Professor Gerry Stoker of Manchester and examines the main themes and messages of his work as it has related to both academics and practitioners. It examines the controversial nature of Stoker's output which has provoked the charge of 'betraying' local government, and suggests that reading Stoker's work is a more complex task than perhaps his fiercest critics would allow. It argues that there is more than one way in which Stoker's contributi...