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作者：Bevir, M; Rhodes, RAW; Weller, P
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Australian National University; Griffith University
摘要：This article revisits the country case studies and seeks to answer two questions. What are the strengths and weaknesses of an interpretive approach? What lessons can we draw from our analysis of public sector reform? To assess an interpretive approach, we discuss: the issues raised in identifying beliefs; the meaning of explanation; how to select traditions; the shift from prediction to informed conjecture and policy advice as storytelling. To assess the lessons, we outline our preferred story...
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作者：Christensen, T; Lægreid, P
作者单位：University of Oslo; University of Bergen; University of Bergen
摘要：Inspired by New Public Management, many countries have changed their central public apparatus from an integrated to a more segregated structural model. A central element in this process is structural devolution and the establishment of new or reorganized state-owned companies with increased business autonomy and new formal control systems. This paper focuses on how this development, as exemplified by the case of Norway, is affecting the role of central executive political and administrative le...
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作者：Davies, A; Thomas, R
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：This paper presents empirical and theoretical analysis of the enactment of New Public Management (NPM) within the UK police service. It draws on empirical material gathered in a two-year study that explores the ways in which individual policing professionals have responded to, and received, the NPM discourse. Theoretically informed by a discursive approach to organizational analysis, the paper focuses on the new subject positions promoted within NPM that serve to challenge traditional understa...
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作者：Lowndes, V; Wilson, D
作者单位：De Montfort University; De Montfort University
摘要：This article focuses upon one particular aspect of new institutionalist thinking - that which analyses the scope for, and constraints upon, deliberate interventions in institutional change. New institutionalist insights are used to illuminate the challenges faced by the British Labour government in its programme for modernizing local government. The focus is upon two core concepts: robustness and revisability - a pairing which highlights the potential contradictions that exist within the new i...
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作者：Kakabadse, A; Korac-Kakabadse, N; Kouzmin, A
作者单位：Cranfield University; Southern Cross University
摘要：yThree societies with similar initiatives for public service re-configuration and reform the UK, Canada and Australia-are examined to highlight the many-faceted issues of public service ethics and the different approaches these governments have taken to re-building public trust and enhancing public service ethics in times of rapid change. These efforts for re-building an ethical public service are scrutinized according to four criteria for effectively leading change. Changes of public service ...
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作者：Toke, D; Marsh, D
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：A dialectical model of policy networks is deployed to analyse policy change in the area of GM crops in the UK. The model uses an analysis of the interaction between agents and structure, network and context and network and outcomes to understand and explain how policy change has occurred. A key advantage of the model is that it increases understanding of network transformation, explanation of which has been an alleged weakness of the policy network approach. However, this case study does throw...
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作者：Allmendinger, P; Tewdwr-Jones, M; Morphet, J
作者单位：University of Aberdeen; University of London; University College London
摘要：Since the 1990s there has been a long-standing concern in government towards public sector accountability, management, efficiency and service delivery. A number of studies have attempted to analyse the multitude of individual changes and their manifestations through analyses based on a variety of institutional, policy and governmental distinctions. This paper attempts to specify the changes with particular reference to planning, and to consider the evolution of the public service ethic in plan...
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作者：Jordan, A; Wurzel, R; Zito, AR; Brückner, L
作者单位：University of East Anglia; University of Hull; Newcastle University - UK
摘要：This article examines the use of 'new' environmental policy instruments (NEPIs), particularly market-based instruments (for example, eco-taxes) and voluntary agreements, in the European Union (EU). It focuses on the actor motivation behind the recent increase in the adoption of new and innovative instruments in EU (and member state) environmental policies while also taking account of the external international arena. The article assesses whether new ideas put forward by policy entrepreneurs, s...
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作者：Capano, G
作者单位：University of Bologna
摘要：In recent years a growing number of scholars have developed cognitive and ideational theoretical frameworks for the analysis of policy-making processes: their underlying belief is that ideas (conceived as beliefs, causal theories and paradigms) really do matter. The concept of policy paradigm has been particularly useful in studying both the contents and dynamics of policy change. The present paper takes this concept, partially reformulates Hall's definition in terms of the distinction between...
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作者：Noordegraaf, M; Abma, T
作者单位：Utrecht University; Maastricht University
摘要：In the public sphere, a management by measurement (MBM) movement can be traced. Practitioners attempt to strengthen the transparency and effectiveness of administrative systems by introducing rational measurement cycles. When issues are managed, ambitions must be stated, options must be assessed, optimal options must be chosen and performance must be monitored and evaluated. This cycle rests upon assumptions that are often untenable. When issues are ambiguous, interpretative spaces exist; when...
