Public Administration

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• Administration and society: Beyond public choice? AI翻译
  作者：Zafirovski, M
  作者单位：University of North Texas System; University of North Texas Denton
  摘要：This paper involves an attempt at reconsidering public choice theory, with reference to its pertinence for public administration. The impetus for such reconsideration has been supplied by the claims of public choice theorists that their theory, as the economics of politics, is superior to its alternatives in political science and sociology. The Weberian theory of bureaucratic administration or bureaucracy has been a special target of public choice theorists on the grounds that it misconstrues ...
• Prisoners of professionalism: On the construction and responsibility of political studies. A review article AI翻译
  作者：Bevir, M
  作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• Trends in public participation: Part 1 - Local government perspectives AI翻译
  作者：Lowndes, V; Pratchett, L; Stoker, G
  作者单位：De Montfort University; University of Strathclyde
• Stepping out: Rhetorical devices and culture change management in the UK civil service AI翻译
  作者：Driscoll, A; Morris, J
  作者单位：Cardiff University
  摘要：Organizational culture is the pattern of values and beliefs held by members of an organization and the management of culture is now one of the most frequently discussed of all organizational concepts. The excitement associated with culture is attributable to two factors. First, it is argued that culture is the key to organizational performance; simply stated, a strong organizational culture can be a source of competitive advantage. Second, culture is perceived as an alternative method of contr...
• Local government policy evolution in New Zealand:: Radical reform and the ex post emergence of consensus or rival advocacy coalitions AI翻译
  作者：Wallis, J; Dollery, B
  作者单位：University of New England
  摘要：Between 1984 and 1993 New Zealand reformers followed a top-down strategy designed to minimize the opportunity for resistors to affect the reform process and preclude the ex post emergence of a stable alignment of rival advocacy coalitions. The evolution of the local government policy debate since the implementation of radical reform in 1989 suggests that these strategic goals may be more difficult to achieve than at first thought. The quest to make local government more efficient and democrati...
• Works in theory but not in practice? The role of the precautionary principle in public health policy AI翻译
  作者：Calman, K; Smith, D
  作者单位：Durham University; University of Sheffield
• Convergence: The useful myth? AI翻译
  作者：Pollitt, C
  作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
  摘要：Many academics have questioned the thesis (most prominently associated with Osborne and Gaebler's Re-inventing government) that there is an inevitable and global convergence towards a particular, new style of public management. Yet, despite the ongoing production of scholarly evidence of global diversity, pronouncements of convergence continue to be made by politicians, civil servants and some academics. In this paper it is suggested that, better to understand this apparent controversy, a more...
• Urban governance and policy networks:: On the urban political boundedness of policy networks.: A French case study AI翻译
  作者：Le Galès, P
  摘要：The paper analyses the changes within two policy domains in one French city. The aim is not so much to demonstrate the role of policy networks but to stress the importance of their articulation within a given political space. The paper does not conclude on the emergence of a new type of network governance but rather shows how urban political elites have deliberately encouraged the formation of policy networks in Rennes. That strategy makes sense in their attempt to strengthen an urban collecti...
• Regimes on pillars: Alternative welfare state logics and dynamics AI翻译
  作者：Goodin, RE; Rein, M
  作者单位：Australian National University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  摘要：Social welfare arrangements represent the conjunction of the twin logics of regimes and pillars. Regimes describe who receives the benefits and on what conditions; pillars describe who pays for and who provides the benefits. There are historical associations and 'natural affinities' between certain regimes and certain pillars. But there is also scope for novel combinations and recombinations. Many contemporary welfare state reforms are best conceptualized in terms of shifting the mix of pillar...
• 'Management by contract': A study of programmatic and technological aspects AI翻译
  作者：Almqvist, R
  作者单位：Stockholm University
  摘要：The practice of 'Management by Contract' can - as with any practice - be characterized by programmatic and technological dimensions. These dimensions contain concepts and ideas at the programmatic level, which shape the mission of the practice (concrete tasks and routines) at the technological level. Thus, the former attach the practice to the broader conceptual dimension. In this paper both of these dimensions will be analysed. The aim is to study how quality issues have been managed by contr...