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POWER LEARNING OR PATH DEPENDENCY? INVESTIGATING THE ROOTS OF THE EUROPEAN FO…
A key motive for establishing the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) was restoring public confidence in the wake of multiplying food scares and the BSE crisis. Scholars, however, have paid little attention to the actual political and institutional logics that shaped this new organization. This article explores the dynamics underpinning the making of EFSA. We examine the way in which learning…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 315 - 330
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BEYOND POLICY NETWORKS: POLICY FRAMING AND THE POLITICS OF EXPERTISE IN THE 2…
For the past decade, the policy community/issue network typology of pressure group interaction has been used to explain policy outcomes and the policy-making process. To re-examine the validity of this typology, the paper focuses on the UK government's response to the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) crisis, and in particular the decision to pursue contiguous culling rather than vaccination to…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 331 - 345
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THE FIGHT OVER DANISH NATURE: EXPLAINING POLICY NETWORK CHANGE AND POLICY CHANGE
The policy network approach is widely recognized for its ability to describe different networks. Adding the concepts 'policy image' and 'cleavage in the party system' makes it possible to explain policy network change as well as policy change. This argument is supported by a comparison of the Danish decision in 1960 to straighten Denmark's largest river, the Skjern River, to gain farmland, and …
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 346 - 363
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THE FIGHT OVER DANISH NATURE: EXPLAINING POLICY NETWORK CHANGE AND POLICY CHANGE
The policy network approach is widely recognized for its ability to describe different networks. Adding the concepts 'policy image' and 'cleavage in the party system' makes it possible to explain policy network change as well as policy change. This argument is supported by a comparison of the Danish decision in 1960 to straighten Denmark's largest river, the Skjern River, to gain farmland, and …
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MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF MARGINALIZATION PROCESSES AT THE PERIPHERY OF EUROPE
Under the influence of the enlargement of the European Union, there is now a renewed concern for marginalization processes in rural areas. Especially in countries at the periphery of Europe, these processes often have a large-scale and multifaceted character. As agriculture and rural areas have become dissociated, the marginalization or success of the one no longer necessarily affects the other…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 364 - 380
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EXIT, VOICE, AND DISAPPOINTMENT: MOUNTAIN DECLINE AND EU COMPENSATORY RURAL P…
The article analyses the Spanish experience of EU compensatory rural policy in order to contribute to broader debates on the effectiveness of this kind of policy and the role of agriculture in the definition of European rural policies. In the case of Spain, compensatory allowances to mainly mountain farmers had little effect on economic trajectories or social cohesion because of the small sums …
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 381 - 395
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APPLYING POLICY NETWORK THEORY TO POLICY-MAKING IN CHINA: THE CASE OF URBAN H…
In this article, we explore whether policy network theory can be applied in the People's Republic of China (PRC). We carried out a literature review of how this approach has already been dealt with in the Chinese policy sciences thus far. We then present the key concepts and research approach in policy networks theory in the Western literature and try these on a Chinese case to see the fit. We …
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 398 - 417
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EXPLAINING VARIATION IN PERCEPTIONS OF RED TAPE: A PROFESSIONALISM-MARKETIZAT…
In the public administration literature, ways in which perceptions of red tape vary between different parts of the public sector remains relatively unexplored. In this article we define organizational red tape as a subject-dependent concept; that is, we expect to see variations in the level and type of red tape between different internal stakeholder groups. We then explain variations with two o…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 418 - 438
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STRONG LEADERS? THE CHALLENGES AND PITFALLS IN MAYORAL LEADERSHIP
The questions executive mayors face regarding the fulfillment of their leadership role often reveal dilemmas and paradoxes. The subject of this article is how executive mayors cope with these dilemmas and paradoxes and whether or not the selection procedure matters. It presents results of a comparison of English elected mayors' interpretations of three dilemmas and Dutch appointed mayors' expec…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 439 - 454
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THE DEGREE OF DECENTRALIZATION AND INDIVIDUAL DECISION MAKING IN CENTRAL GOVE…
This article reports a comparative study of human resource management (HRM) practices in Europe. We focus on the extent to which decision-making authority is decentralized, that is, passed down to management, and individualized in the sense of being in the discretion of a single decision maker. Using these two dimensions, this paper gives a picture of the distinct way HR decision-making practic…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 455 - 478
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SIMILAR PROBLEMS, DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS: COMPARING REFUSE COLLECTION IN THE NET…
Because of differences in institutional arrangements, public service markets, and national traditions regarding government intervention, local public service provision can vary greatly. In this paper we compare the procedures adopted by the local governments of The Netherlands and Spain in arranging for the provision of solid waste collection. We find that Spain faces a problem of consolidation…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 479 - 495
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THE EU COMITOLOGY SYSTEM: WHAT ROLE FOR THE COMMISSION?
The literature on comitology has largely ignored the European Commission's actual behaviour in the daily workings of the numerous comitology committees that were designed to control it. On the basis of survey data of Danish and Dutch representatives on nearly all comitology committees, this paper investigates the Commission's role in the system. We find that the Commission acts both as a mediat…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 496 - 512
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CULTURE IN ACTION: THE 'ROTTERDAM APPROACH' AS MODERNIZATION THROUGH TRADITION
This article discusses the relation between administrative culture and the capacity to act. It analyses how the Dutch city of Rotterdam radically altered its safety and 'livability' approaches in the face of new challenges, and how the city used its cultural make-up and traditions in doing so. This takes its importance from that fact that local governments are almost continuously confronted wit…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 513 - 527
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NETWORKING LITERATURE ABOUT DETERMINANTS OF NETWORK EFFECTIVENESS
Since the early 1990s, public networks have been implemented in many countries to solve 'wicked' public problems, addressing such issues as health, social care, local development and education. While considerable research has been carried out into public networks, both managers and scholars are left with some doubts about network effectiveness. In fact literature on this topic has been highly f…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 528 - 550
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PUBLIC SERVICE USE AND PERCEIVED PERFORMANCE: AN EMPIRICAL NOTE ON THE NATURE…
Citizen surveys often measure service use as well as perceived performance, typically in the form of quality or satisfaction ratings. But little attention has been paid to the relationship between public service use and satisfaction. How do the service ratings or satisfaction judgements of frequent users differ from those of infrequent users? Is the direction of the use-satisfaction relationshi…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 551 - 563
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TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR ESTABLISHING POLICY SUCCESS
Claims that a particular policy has been a 'success' are commonplace in political life. However, a few of these claims are justified in any systematic way. This article seeks to remedy this omission by offering a heuristic which practitioners and academics can utilize to approach the question of whether a policy is, or was, successful. It builds initially on two sets of literature: Boyne's work…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 564 - 583
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Assessing Group-Level Constructs Under Missing Data Conditions: A Monte Carlo…
The authors reviewed recently published research on small groups and teams to understand how within-team nonresponse is reported and handled. They used Monte Carlo simulation to investigate how data-handling choices affect measurement reliability and hypothesis testing under conditions of random and systematic nonresponse. More complete reporting of nonresponse is recommended by the authors, an…
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- Vol. 41 no. 3, June 2010. pp. 281-307
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Expecting the Worst? The Dynamic Role of Competitive Expectations in Team Mem…
This study proposes that individual competitive expectations play a critical role in understanding team performance, as expectations shape individual reactions to team behaviors. Expectations, of course, do not always match behavior. When an individual thinks a team task is going to be easy and cooperative and instead meets with competitive rather than cooperative behaviors, that individual is …
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- Vol. 41 no. 3, June 2010. pp. 308-329
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Social Ostracism in Task Groups: The Effects of Group Composition
Social ostracism—being ignored or excluded—threatens needs for self-esteem, belongingness, control, and meaningful existence. In the conventional laboratory paradigms, a lone participant is ostracized by either confederates or imagined group members and then completes measures of threatened needs. This approach prohibits asking questions about the group dynamics involved in ostracism situations…
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- Vol. 41 no. 3, June 2010. pp. 330-353
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Is a Good Deed Constructive Regardless of Intent? Organization Citizenship Be…
This article develops a theory about how motives behind organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) affect the amount of OCB reciprocated, group cohesion, and group performance. First, the article investigates the interpersonal exchange between peers and how motive perceived by the receiver affects his or her level of reciprocation. Second, it examines the individual attribute of interdependence …
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- Vol. 41 no. 3, June 2010.pp. 354-375
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