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作者：Boswell, Christina
作者单位：University of Edinburgh
摘要：Performance targets tend to be depicted as management tools, designed to improve public policy outcomes. Yet targets also have a symbolic function, signalling commitment to and underscoring achievement of political goals. This article explores the tension between these 'disciplining' and 'signalling' functions, looking at UK targets on asylum, 2000-10. Attempts to combine the two functions led to three types of problem: (1) technical targets designed to steer organizational performance lacked ...
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作者：Waring, Justin
作者单位：University of Nottingham
摘要：Public service reforms increasingly blur the boundaries between public and private sectors, involving hybrid modes of service organization. With growing numbers of public services being transferred to private or mutual ownership, the article interprets reform as a public sector diaspora. Drawing upon the diaspora studies literature, the article proposes a model of hybridization that centres on the possibilities for cultural dislocation, adaptation, and hybridity. Focusing on reforms within the...
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作者：Dommett, Katharine; Flinders, Matthew
作者单位：University of Sheffield
摘要：A growing literature on 'agencification', 'quangocratization', and the 'autonomization' of the state has highlighted a coordination dilemma in contemporary public governance whereby governments rely on delegated governance but are frustrated by the lack of control that arises from such structures. In the run-up to the 2010 General Election in the United Kingdom this coordination dilemma was prominent as the capacity of the Cabinet Office to exert control over arm's-length bodies, either direct...
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作者：Karsten, Niels
作者单位：Tilburg University
摘要：Voluntary accountability, where people and organizations willingly subject themselves to scrutiny, seems counterintuitive. The common understanding is that increased accountability has negative consequences for the accountor; and so why would anyone voluntarily seek accountability when it is not required? Current explanations hold that external pressures can explain accountability-seeking behaviour, and the proponents are not convinced by the argument that it is beneficial to the accountor. In...
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作者：Bel, Germa; Warner, Mildred E.
作者单位：University of Barcelona; Cornell University
摘要：Austerity and fiscal crisis make the search for cost-saving reforms in local government more critical. While cost savings from privatization have frequently proven ephemeral, inter-municipal cooperation has been a relatively understudied reform. We analyse the literature on cost savings under cooperation and find that savings are dependent on (1) the cost structure of public services, particularly those related to scale and density economies and externalities, (2) the structure of local govern...
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作者：Moser, Carolyn
作者单位：Max Planck Society
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作者：Bertelli, Anthony M.; Sinclair, J. Andrew; Lee, Haram
作者单位：New York University; University of Birmingham; University of Southern California
摘要：When administrative agencies are terminated, do they quietly fade from public view? On the one hand, the terminated agencies may have weak issue networks and agency reputations, allowing them to lose public salience. On the other, strong issue networks and agency reputations may mean that termination increases attention to the agencies, making the government pay the cost of public attention generated by the actors within the issue networks. We assess these competing claims by using a unique da...
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作者：Stone, Diane; Ladi, Stella
作者单位：University of Warwick; University of London; Queen Mary University London
摘要：There has been a proliferation of administrative practices and processes of policy-making and policy delivery beyond but often overlapping with traditional nation state policy processes. New formal and informal institutions and actors are behind these policy processes, often in cooperation with national public administrations but sometimes quite independently from them. These multi-stakeholder initiatives', global public-private partnerships' and global commissions' are creating or delivering ...
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作者：Nieto Morales, Fernando; Wittek, Rafael; Heyse, Liesbet
作者单位：Colegio de Mexico; University of Groningen
摘要：A technocratic pathway to public management reform stresses the need for committing sizeable resources to reform implementation. Building on an institutional framework, we argue that there are alternative pathways to compliant implementation for government agencies with limited resources. Our comparative study of 55 Mexican government agencies that were the object of the 2003 Civil Service Reform Act reveals the co-occurrence of both technocratic and institutional pathways to compliant impleme...
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作者：Balla, Steven J.
作者单位：George Washington University
摘要：In recent years, the accessibility and transparency of administrative procedures have attracted the attention of researchers and policymakers in the United States. This article investigates the accessibility and transparency of a particularly important administrative procedure, the notice and comment process. The article presents a theoretical account of the operation of political control and bureaucratic discretion in two aspects of the notice and comment process - the duration of comment per...
