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作者：Ma, Liang
作者单位：Renmin University of China; Nanyang Technological University
摘要：Organizational goals shape performance feedback and have salient influences on strategic behaviours and outcomes. I develop a model of goal-setting by combining performance gap and bureaucratic control theories. I predict that governments set goal levels historically in line with their past goal levels and attainment discrepancies, horizontally targeting the comparable peers' goal levels and performance gaps, and vertically aligning with the upper-tier authorities' mandates. Using the data on ...
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作者：Millward, Robert
作者单位：University of Manchester
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作者：Hood, Christopher
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作者：Matczak, Piotr
作者单位：Adam Mickiewicz University
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作者：Linsley, Philip; Mcmurray, Robert; Shrives, Philip
作者单位：University of York - UK; Durham University; Northumbria University; Newcastle University - UK
摘要：This article employs Douglasian cultural theory to explain how policy consultations intended to secure meaningful reform can, in fact, work to reinforce the status quo. The context for this is an examination of responses to three consultations established by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the body responsible for regulating accounting and auditing in the UK. The results reveal a lack of diversity of voices in the responses to three consultations, with the enclave and isolate voices bei...
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作者：Robinson, Robert R.
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Fullerton
摘要：Baumgartner and Jones' theory of conflict expansion highlights the importance of policy imagery in the maintenance of policy subsystems, as a sharp increase in negative imagery can drive conflict expansion and subsystem dissolution. However, we still know relatively little about what drives rapid shifts in image valence. In this study, I examine how cultural change affects receptiveness to policy images, drawing on the cultural theory (CT) developed by Douglas and Wildavsky. Affecting both per...
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作者：Boin, Arjen; Lodge, Martin
作者单位：Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：Crises and disasters feature high on political and public agendas around the world. Practitioners wrestle with the challenge to provide protection while maintaining legitimacy. They pine for insights that lie at the heart of public administration: designing effective institutions and preserving transparency; enabling and empowering citizens without undermining a coordinated response; balancing long-term risks against short-term needs; bridging the divide between theory and practice, and betwee...
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作者：Osipovic, Dorota; Allen, Pauline; Shepherd, Elizabeth; Coleman, Anna; Perkins, Neil; Williams, Lorraine; Sanderson, Marie; Checkland, Katherine
作者单位：University of London; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; University of Manchester
摘要：Since the beginning of the 1990s the public healthcare system in England has been subject to reforms. This has resulted in a structurally hybrid system of public service with elements of the market. Utilizing a theory of new institutionalism, this article explores National Health Service (NHS) managers' views on competition and cooperation as mechanisms for commissioning health services. We interrogate the extent of institutional change in the NHS by examining managers' understanding of the fo...
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作者：Rocco, Philip
作者单位：Marquette University
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作者：Berkhout, Joost
作者单位：University of Amsterdam
