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作者：Kirkpatrick, I; Kitchener, M; Whipp, R
作者单位：University of Leeds; Cardiff University
摘要：This article is concerned with assessing the effectiveness of markets for complex professional services in social care. The issue is explored through an account of developments in the children's residential care sector. Over the past five years there has been a steady expansion in the role of external markets in this area. However, this was not required by the Children Act 1989 and has become the subject of considerable debate between policy makers and practitioners. While some favour an exten...
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作者：Jordan, A
作者单位：University of East Anglia; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC); University of East Anglia
摘要：European political integration has added a new and exciting dimension to the study of national political and administrative systems. However, comparatively little is know about the precise role of national ministries of state in either facilitating or retarding the shift towards joint rule making at the European level. Taking as an example the UK Department of the Environment's (DoE) involvement in the cumulative development of EU environmental policy since 1970, this paper examines the extent...
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作者：Jackson, PM
作者单位：University of Leicester
摘要：This paper takes stock of our understanding of the 'architecture' of public sector resource allocation mechanisms. It is a speculative venture and provides a framework for thinking about issues rather than a completed theoretical model. The concept of architecture is borrowed from the design sciences and is used to explore the conditions of performativity within networks of relational contracts. The age-old question of markets versus hierarchy is too simplistic. Instead, the search is for opti...
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作者：Vigoda, E
作者单位：University of Derby; University of Haifa; University of Haifa
摘要：Research in public administration (PA) is preoccupied with questions of efficiency and effectiveness which are aimed at improving public sector performance. According to the new public management approach, addressing this prominent challenge must rely upon a comprehensive understanding of citizens'/clients' perceptions of public sector operation and the extent to which public organizations are aware of public needs. This paper suggests a theoretical grounding and empirical examination of the r...
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作者：Gallego, R
作者单位：Autonomous University of Barcelona
摘要：This article examines the extent to which the Catalan reform launched in 1990 effectively introduced the purchaser/provider separation within the public health administration. The reform had two formulation sources: a law passed by the Catalan Parliament, which left this principle vague, and a further 'new public management' discourse, which interpreted the law in terms of a clear purchaser/provider separation. This study uses Dunleavy's (1991) analytical model of agency types to compare the i...
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作者：De Montricher, N
作者单位：Universite PSL; Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
摘要：The article intends to explain why although tremendous changes have occurred in the structure of government - especially the laws organizing decentralization since 1982 - the institution of the Prefect is still alive in the year 2000. Created in 1800, the institution of the Prefect derives from the will of the central authority to rely on its own representatives to ensure that public policies will be equally implemented over the whole territory. This objective remains but it has to be combined...
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作者：Bate, P
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：This article is a case study of a large-scale change programme within an NHS hospital. Drawing upon ethnographic data collected over a two-year period of intensive research involvement, it tells how the hospital struggled to transform itself from a rigid and divided 'hierarchy' into a more flexible and collaborative 'networked community.' The paper describes the model of change devised for this purpose, and seeks to capture the lessons learned on the rocky road to network organizing. It conclu...
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作者：Considine, M
作者单位：University of Melbourne
摘要：Contemporary debates concerning the nature of 'new governance' typically focus upon the shifting roles played by bureaucracies, networks and markets in the provision of public services (Kooiman 1993; Ormsby 1988). At the core of these recent changes we find a strong interest in having private agents deliver public services. Sometimes this is expressed as privatization and in other cases a 'mixed economy' of public and private participation may be devised (Williamson 1975; Moe 1984). In this st...
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作者：Martin, S
作者单位：University of Warwick
摘要：This paper examines the impacts of the 'Best Value' regime on the management of local public services in the UK. It argues that the regime marks an important shift in the framework of national regulation of local authorities and the services they provide but that the initiatives developed by the councils which have been piloting the new framework reflect a variety of approaches to local implementation. This suggests not the arrival of a new, hegemonic 'outcomes-focused paradigm' but a more gra...
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作者：Toke, D
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：What can broadly he described as a policy community has been established with the central purpose of co-ordinating policy implementation in the field of energy efficiency in domestic buildings. A complete understanding of the processes of policy network formation cannot be achieved in this case without a thorough analysis of the construction of cognitive structures which influence the behaviour of actors and underpin the policy network. Discourse analysis is an effective means of studying cogn...
