Public Administration

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• Parliamentary scrutiny of executive patronage: The relationship between institutional norms, reputation and accountability AI翻译
  作者：Matthews, Felicity
  作者单位：University of Sheffield
  摘要：While executive patronage brings important benefits in terms of governance and control, political influence over the selection of agency staff entails a democratic dilemma: how should the exercise of executive patronage be controlled? This article addresses this critical issue, examining Westminster's system of pre-appointment scrutiny by analysing an original database that encompasses every pre-appointment hearing held between 2007 and 2018. The article demonstrates that although the conduct ...
• Hypocrisy as a crisis response? Assessing changes in talk, decisions, and actions of the European Commission in EU environmental policy AI翻译
  作者：Knill, Christoph; Steinebach, Yves; Fernandez-i-Marin, Xavier
  作者单位：University of Munich
  摘要：In this article, we assess the changing role of the European Commission in EU environmental policy. In line with organizational theory, we expect organizational hypocrisy, namely a decoupling of talk, decisions, and actions, to characterize the Commission's behaviour in the aftermath of the financial and economic crisis. We analyse the extent to which the Commission (1) promotes environmental matters and concepts in press releases and public statements; (2) proposes new and stricter environmen...
• Contracting personalization by results: Comparing marketization reforms in the UK and Australia AI翻译
  作者：Considine, Mark; O'Sullivan, Siohban; McGann, Michael; Nguyen, Phuc
  作者单位：University of Melbourne; University of New South Wales Sydney; Maynooth University; Maynooth University; La Trobe University
  摘要：Market instruments are increasingly used to drive innovation and efficiency in public services. Meanwhile, many governments recognize the need for services to be more personalized and 'user-centred'. This was a key aim of major welfare-to-work reforms in both the UK and Australia over the past decade, which sought to achieve personalization through increasing service delivery by for-profit providers, contracted via Payment-by-Results. Drawing on three surveys of frontline staff, we show the im...
• Playing a zero-sum game? The pursuit of independence and relevance in performance auditing AI翻译
  作者：Triantafillou, Peter
  作者单位：Roskilde University
  摘要：Supreme audit institutions (SAIs) are fundamental institutions in liberal democracies as they enable control of the exercise of state power. In order to maintain this function, SAIs must enjoy a high level of independence. Moreover, SAIs are increasingly expected to be also relevant for government and the execution of its policies by way of performance auditing. This article examines how and why the performance auditing of the Danish SAI pursues independence and relevance. It is argued that, i...
• Dismantling, disintegration or continuing stealthy integration in European Union environmental policy? AI翻译
  作者：Lenschow, Andrea; Burns, Charlotte; Zito, Anthony
  作者单位：University Osnabruck; University of Sheffield; Newcastle University - UK
  摘要：This symposium assesses the trajectory of European Union (EU) environmental policy and integration in light of the rising pressure for policy dismantling and disintegration. This introductory article discusses the literature and the mixed evidence of EU environmental policy dismantling. Building on the three symposium articles, we investigate the role of the European Commission in this process, evaluating its role as a general 'motor of integration' and more specifically as an environmental po...
• When does science persuade (or not persuade) in high-conflict policy contexts? AI翻译
  作者：Heikkila, Tanya; Weible, Christopher M.; Gerlak, Andrea K.
  作者单位：Children's Hospital Colorado; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; University of Colorado Denver; University of Arizona
  摘要：Researchers struggle to understand the relationship between science and policy positions, especially the complicated interplay among the various factors that might affect the acceptance or rejection of scientific information. This article presents a typology that simplifies and guides research linking scientific information to policy positions. We use the typology to examine how characteristics of both scientific information and policy actors' existing policy positions affect the likelihood of...
• Keeping a watchful eye in times of turmoil? How repeated structural reform leads to more attention to political signals AI翻译
  作者：Wynen, Jan; Kleizen, Bjorn; Verhoest, Koen; Laegreid, Per; Rolland, Vidar
  作者单位：University of Antwerp; University of Antwerp; University of Bergen
  摘要：An important rationale for the creation of semi-autonomous agencies is to create some distance between politics and administration. As such, agencies are expected to shield policy implementation from the daily concerns of political life. However, political actors and politically controlled ministries still influence agencies in various intended and unintended ways. This article focuses on intensive long-term series of structural reforms and how they may undermine the original design philosophy...
• Stability not change: Improving frontline employee motivation through organizational reform is harder than it looks AI翻译
  作者：van Loon, Nina M.; Baekgaard, Martin; Moynihan, Donald P.
  作者单位：Aarhus University; Georgetown University
  摘要：As evidence mounts about the positive effects of autonomous motivation such as public service motivation, there is a growing case for public organizations to design reforms to better support public employees' inherent desire to help others. But how feasible is this in reality? Most experimental evidence on autonomous motivation stems from interventions at the individual level, possibly exaggerating what government reforms can achieve in reality. We present a longitudinal study that analyses a ...
• Efficiency and legitimacy in collaborative public management: Mapping inter-local agreements in England using social network analysis AI翻译
  作者：Dixon, Ruth; Elston, Thomas
  作者单位：University of Oxford
  摘要：English councils have long aspired to be 'self-sufficient', providing services within single jurisdictions with limited inter-local collaboration. However, by 2017 almost all local councils (97 per cent) participated in one or more frontline or back-office 'shared service' involving 338 distinct partnerships. We analyse this new-found enthusiasm for inter-council collaboration by performing exploratory social network analysis on organizational and financial data for all 353 English councils. W...
• Politicized policy access: The effect of politicization on interest group access to advisory councils AI翻译
  作者：Willems, Evelien
  作者单位：University of Antwerp
  摘要：Current scholarship often concludes that technical expertise is one of the most important commodities for interest groups wishing to gain access to political-administrative venues. Less attention has been given to politicization and the scope of societal support that interest groups bring to bear. Specifically, I hypothesize that the capacity of interest groups to supply broad societal support is decisive for gaining access in highly politicized policy domains. To test this expectation, the ar...