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A case study on project-level CO2 mitigation costs in industrialised countrie…
This paper analyses CO2 emissions reduction costs based on project data from the Climate Cent Foundation (CCF), a climate policy instrument in Switzerland. Four conclusions are drawn. First, for the projects investigated, the CCF on average pays 63/ton. Due to the Kyoto Protocol, the CCF buys reductions only until 2012. This cut-off increases reported per ton reduction costs, as the additional…
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- Volume 53, Issue 5 July 2010 , pages 657 - 676
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- Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
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Shifting paths to conservation: policy change discourses and the 2008 US farm…
From 2004 until 2006, reform of US agricultural subsidy programmes seemed a likely result of pressure from the World Trade Organization. Many groups saw this pressure as an opportunity to 'green' farm policy by crafting environmental service payments that could replace crop subsidies. Yet the 2008 US farm bill fell short of such drastic changes. This paper uses discourse analysis to trace the d…
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- Volume 53, Issue 5 July 2010 , pages 639 - 655
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Compensation Benchmarking, Leapfrogs, and the Surge in Executive Pay
Scholars frequently argue whether the sharp rise in chief executive officer (CEO) pay in recent years is efficient or is a consequence of rent extraction because of the failure of corporate governance in individual firms. This article argues that governance failure must be conceptualized at the market rather than the firm level because excessive pay increases for even relatively few CEOs a …
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- Volume 115 Number 6 May 2010. pp. 1671–712
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- 00029602
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Toward a Historical Sociology of Social Situations
In recent years there has been a growing call to historicize sociology by paying more attention to the contextual importance of time and place as well as to issues of process and contingency. Meeting this goal requires bringing historical sociology and interactionism into greater conversation via a historical theory of social situations. Toward this end, the authors of this article draw on Ervi…
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- Volume 115 Number 6 May 2010.pp. 1713–52
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Drawing Blood from Stones: Legal Debt and Social Inequality in the Contempora…
The expansion of the U.S. penal system has important consequences for poverty and inequality, yet little is known about the imposition of monetary sanctions. This study analyzes national and state?level court data to assess their imposition and interview data to identify their social and legal consequences. Findings indicate that monetary sanctions are imposed on a substantial majority of the m…
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- Volume 115 Number 6 May 2010.pp. 1753–99
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Cultural Objects as Objects: Materiality, Urban Space, and the Interpretation…
AIDS media lead unexpected lives once distributed through urban space: billboards fade, posters go missing, bumper stickers travel to other cities. The materiality of AIDS campaign objects and of the urban settings in which they are displayed structures how the public interprets their messages. Ethnographic observation of AIDS media in situ and interview data reveal how the materiality of objec…
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- Volume 115 Number 6 May 2010.pp. 1800–52
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A Signal Juncture: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and Post‐Accord Labor Relat…
This essay uses a deviant case analysis of the 19952000 Detroit newspaper strike to critique and revise theories of strike activity. As the formal institutions regulating industrial relations in the United States have declined, workplace struggles have expanded or reentered into other arenas of the state and civil society. In addition, the essay develops the methodological concept of a signal…
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- Volume 115 Number 6 May 2010.pp. 1853–94
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Can We? Administrative Limits Revisited
The idea of administrative limitsin the sense of constraints or bounds on what can be achieved by the activity of administration in general and public administration in particularis important for a proper understanding of twenty-first-century public administration. What are the effective limits of taxable capacity in the modern state, as debt-ridden governments seek to reduce debt levels and …
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- Volume 70, Issue 4, pages 527–534, July/August 201
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The Limits of Administration: A Response to Christopher Hood
The development of states coincides with the continuous (re)definition of administrative limits, according to Kutsal Yesilkagit, in this response to Christopher Hood. Hoods thought-provoking essay suggests putting the concept of administrative limits to greater use as an analytical concept and explores the idea of administrative limits from three basic ways of thinking: cybernetics, economics …
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- Volume 70, Issue 4, pages 535–537, July/August 201
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Toward a Constitutional School for American Public Administration
A central tenet of The Federalist is that good government depends on good administration. Two hundred and twenty-three years have passed since Publius began writing this extraordinary text. As American democratic institutions have grown larger and more complex than what the founders ever imagined, many of the ideas expressed in The Federalist remain as relevant today as when James Madison, Alex…
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- Volume 70, Issue 4, pages 538–546, July/August 201
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Woodrow Wilson’s Administrative Thought and German Political Theory
To what extent were Woodrow Wilsons ideas about public administration informed by German organic political theory? Drawing on the writings of Wilson, Lorenz von Stein, and Johann K. Bluntschli on public administration, and comparing American and German primary sources, the author offers insights into Wilsons general concept of public administration, as well as his understanding of the politic…
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- Volume 70, Issue 4, pages 547–556, July/August 201
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Hard Lessons from Hard Times: Reconsidering and Reorienting the “Managing D…
Does the public administration research from the late 1970s and 1980s on managing decline contain useful lessons for today's Great Recession? Do these studies serve our current research needs? Why has decline continued to be a major focus of research in generic management, but not in public administration? The answers to these questions give some clues as to a possible new, revitalized research…
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- Volume 70, Issue 4, pages 557–563, July/August 201
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Cutback Management and the Paradox of Publicness
Cutback management in the public sector poses unique problems. More than 30 years ago, Charles Levine illustrated these problems by discussing the paradoxes of cutback management in public organizations. Building on Levine's work on cutback management and developments in publicness theory, the author provides a contemporary perspective on cutback management. He asserts that publicness creates p…
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- Volume 70, Issue 4, pages 564–571, July/August 201
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The Triumph of Loyalty Over Competence: The Bush Administration and the Exhau…
The most important administrative aspect of the George W. Bush presidency was not its formal management reform agenda, but its attempt to extend the politicized presidency. Efforts to assert tighter political control of the federal bureaucracy, revived during the Ronald Reagan administration, were pursued to an extreme under Bush. Loyalty triumphed over competence in selection, and political go…
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- Volume 70, Issue 4, pages 572–581, July/August 201
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Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don’t: Title VII and Public Employee Pro…
What has been the impact of the U.S. Supreme Courts 2009 decision in Ricci v. Destefano on the selection and promotion practices of public employers?; Relying solely on circumstantial evidence, the Supreme Court held that the Civil Service Board of New Haven, Connecticut, had engaged in Title VII disparate treatment discrimination by refusing to certify the results of a promotion examination t…
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- Volume 70, Issue 4, pages 582–590, July/August 201
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Performance Measurement in the Public Sector in England: Searching for the Go…
Despite the significant volume of studies on public sector performance measurement, a paucity of empirical research describes in detail the systems and processes used at different levels of government to measure and manage performance. This study focuses on the experience of Public Service Agreements in the public sector in England. In particular, the impact of a centralized, performance measur…
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- Volume 70, Issue 4, pages 591–600, July/August 201
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Ordering Stakeholder Relationships and Citizen Participation: Evidence from t…
Local administrative professionals typically are accountable to multiple stakeholders, including other governmental units, special interests in the business and nonprofit sectors, and citizens. How are these accountability relationships ordered? What is the position of citizens in that hierarchy, particularly the influence of citizen participation? Focusing on patterns of hearing participation …
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- Volume 70, Issue 4, pages 601–609, July/August 201
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Board Diversity, Stakeholder Representation, and Collaborative Performance in…
Does board diversity or representativeness influence organizational performance? Though it is understudied in both the public and the nonprofit sectors, learning more about this critical subject can enhance organizational performance within highly collaborative settings. Community mediation centers, which rely on multiple public and private resources to meet their programmatic objectives, provi…
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- Volume 70, Issue 4, pages 610–620, July/August 201
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Recovering, Restoring, and Renewing the Foundations of American Public Admini…
Public administration continues to face an identity crisis that turns on the question of whether the animating principles of the discipline are to be discovered in the political foundations of a given regime, or whether they are to be found in more universal and transcendent principles of scientific management. Herbert J. Storing reframed the identity crisis as a problem arising from Americas …
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- Volume 70, Issue 4, pages 621–633, July/August 201
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The global economic crisis, its gender and ethnic implications, and policy re…
The global financial crisis that began in 2008 has resulted in the widespread destruction of jobs and livelihoods. Among the factors that precipitated the crisis, growing inequality both within and between countries contributed to low levels of aggregate demand and the reliance of low-income households on unsustainable borrowing to maintain living standards. The crisis provides the opportunity …
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- Volume 18, Issue 2 July 2010 , pages 179 - 199
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