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PARALLEL, TRANSFER OR COLLABORATION STRATEGY OF RELATING THEORY TO PRACTICE? …
The relationship between theory and practice is essential to ‘applied sciences' such as public management. However, the current debate on this topic lacks empirical substantiation. Here I develop a methodology for the indication of how the theory-practice gap is actually addressed in a given subfield of management enquiry. I distinguish three archetypal strategies of relating theory to practice…
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- Volume 88, Issue 3, September 2010, pages 680–705
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LEADERSHIP STYLE, CRISIS RESPONSE AND BLAME MANAGEMENT: THE CASE OF HURRICANE…
Crisis management research has largely ignored one of the most pressing challenges political leaders are confronted with in the wake of a large-scale extreme event: how to cope with what is commonly called the blame game. In this article, we provide a heuristic to help understand political leader responses to blame in the aftermath of crises, emphasizing the crucial role of their leadership sty…
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- Volume 88, Issue 3, September 2010, pages 706–723
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TRACING EXPERIENCES OF NHS CHANGE IN ENGLAND: A PROCESS PHILOSOPHY PERSPECTIVE
For over three decades public services have been the subject of unprecedented change. Nowhere has this been more evident than in the English National Health Service (NHS) where despite the effort expended on change there is growing evidence that such restructuring is largely ineffective. Drawing on a study of culture modification in the English NHS, this paper utilizes Chia's (1999) account of …
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- Volume 88, Issue 3, September 2010, pages 724–740
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BEYOND DARK AND BRIGHT: TOWARDS A MORE HOLISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF INTER-GROUP …
Networks are becoming a popular organizational form for structuring human activities. To date, scholars have addressed networks in a variety of fields, including sociology, economics, public administration, criminology, political science, and international security. However, little has been done so far to systematically examine the similarities, differences, and connections between network form…
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- Volume 88, Issue 3, September 2010, pages 741–763
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POLITICS BY HEURISTICS: POLICY NETWORKS WITH A FOCUS ON ACTOR RESOURCES, AS I…
Policy network analysis is criticized for being a ‘heuristic’ device, yet ‘heuristic’ methods may be essential to achieve detailed understandings of specific policy outcomes. Rational choice modelling alone cannot perform a similar function. This paper develops a ‘heuristic’ policy network approach that focuses on the analysis of actor resources. Changing contexts can alter the resource distrib…
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- Volume 88, Issue 3, September 2010, pages 764–781
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MECHANISMS OF CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN EU REGULATORY POLICY
In this conceptual article, we explore mechanisms of conflict management in European Union (EU) regulatory policy-making. We build on J.G. March's distinction between aggregation and transformation as the two strategic options to deal with inconsistent preferences or identities that are at the source of social conflict. While this distinction is helpful in mapping conflict management mechanisms…
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- Volume 88, Issue 3, September 2010, pages 782–799
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SUPPLIER BEHAVIOUR AND PUBLIC CONTRACTING IN THE ENGLISH AGENCY NURSING MARKET
The worldwide expansion in the use of private firms to deliver public services and infrastructure has promoted a substantial literature on public sector contract and relationship management. This literature is currently dominated by the notion that supplier relationships should be based upon trust. Less prominent are more sceptical approaches that emphasize the need to assiduously manage potent…
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- Volume 88, Issue 3, September 2010, pages 800–818
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EXPLAINING THE UNEXPECTED SUCCESS OF THE SMOKING BAN IN ITALY: POLITICAL STRA…
The approval (2003) and enforcement (2005) of a smoking ban in Italy have been viewed by many as an unexpectedly successful example of policy change. The present paper, by applying a processualist approach, concentrates on two policy cycles between 2000 and 2005. These had opposing outcomes: an incomplete decisional stage and an authoritative decision, enforced two years later. Through the anal…
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- Volume 88, Issue 3, September 2010, pages 819–835
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TOWARDS GLOBAL SCHOLARSHIP IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS
One can imagine two futures for public administration, public management and public service around the world. A first would be what we see as a continuation of the status quo: with public administration essentially continuing as a series of national discourses, with perhaps a bit of cross-fertilization, but with this characterized by a classic core-periphery model. The preferable model, outline…
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- Volume 88, Issue 3, September 2010, pages 836–850
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PERSUASION AS GOVERNANCE: A STATE-CENTRIC RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Debates about governance and the relationship between governance and government have focused upon markets, hierarchies and networks as principal modes of governance. In this paper we argue that persuasion constitutes a further and distinctive mode of governance, albeit one which interpenetrates other modes of governance. In order to assess the nature, limitations and scope of persuasion and the…
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- Volume 88, Issue 3, September 2010, pages 851–870
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IMPLEMENTING EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY IN A NETWORK SETTING: ROAD SAFETY POLICY I…
In the early 1990s, in order to improve road safety in The Netherlands, the Institute for Road Safety Research (SWOV) developed an evidence-based ‘Sustainable Safety’ concept. Based on this concept, Dutch road safety policy, was seen as successful and as a best practice in Europe. In The Netherlands, the policy context has now changed from a sectoral policy setting towards a fragmented network …
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- Volume 88, Issue 3, September 2010, pages 871–884
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Market-Based Government and the Decline of Organizational Ethics
This article discusses ethical challenges posed by market-based government and the degree to which contracting enhances or diminishes government’s ability to ensure that organizations that deliver public services adhere to ethical practices and public values, such as lawfulness, transparency, and accountability. A case study of an organization—Blackwater (now, Xe)—vividly illustrates the consid…
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- Vol. 42 no. 6, October 2010.pp. 615-637
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Belonging, Believing, Behaving: The Religious Character of Public Servants
How do public servants compare to the general public in their religious affiliation, beliefs, and behaviors? Using data from the 2004 General Social Survey, we compare public servants in government and outside government to the general public through a series of logistic regression models. Although there is little difference in terms of denominational affiliation, public servants have a stronge…
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- Vol. 42 no. 6, October 2010.pp. 694-719
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Public–Private Partnership in Poland:A Cosmological Journey
A language barrier prevents us from understanding how other cultures look at public administration, as “semantic fields” differ between languages. These differences can never be fully grasped, but what we can do is study what happens when a particular concept crosses the border. In this article we select a concept, public–private partnership, that in recent times migrated from one administrativ…
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- Vol. 42 no. 6. October 2010.pp. 668-693
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Intergenerational Justice Perceptions and the Role of Welfare Regimes: A Comp…
This study analyzes intergenerational justice perceptions among 2,075 undergraduate students in 1996-1998 across eight democracies spanning four welfare regime types. It examined how different regimes structure perceptions of (a) justness in principle of young-to-old public resource transfers and (b) actual contributions to and rewards from society of various age groups. Support in principle of…
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- Vol. 42 no. 6, October 2010.pp. 638-667
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Taxation, Fiscal Decentralisation and Legitimacy: The Role of Semi-Autonomous…
This article analyses the Servicios de Administración Tributaria (SAT), which currently operate in nine Peruvian cities, to show that semi-autonomous tax agencies can play a significant role in strengthening the effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy of decentralised tax systems. Its findings indicate that the SAT collect local taxes and non-tax revenues more effectively than conventional tax…
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- Volume 28, Issue 6, November 2010, pages 643–667
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Decentralisation, Governance and Health-System Performance: ‘Where You Stan…
Advocates of local government often argue that when decentralisation is accompanied by adequate mechanisms of accountability, particularly those responsive to local preferences, improved service delivery will result. From the perspective of the health sector, the appropriate degree of decentralisation and the necessary mechanisms of accountability depend upon the achievement of health system go…
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- Volume 28, Issue 6, November 2010. pages 669–691
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Stroke in Developing Countries: Epidemiology, Impact and Policy Implications
The burden of stroke and other non-communicable diseases has risen sharply in developing countries in recent years. This article provides a detailed review of this trend and its underlying causes, and discusses the social and economic effects of stroke and the scope for interventions to reduce incidence and mitigate impacts. It demonstrates that policy-makers have been slow to recognise the gro…
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- Volume 28, Issue 6, November 2010. pages 693–709
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Reducing Child Labour Through Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from Nicar…
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes, providing eligible households with periodic cash payments, contingent on their children's adherence to school enrolment and attendance requirements, hold considerable promise for reducing levels of child labour across the developing world. This article presents the results of an analysis of a CCT programme in Nicaragua, Red de Protección Social, and c…
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- Volume 28, Issue 6, November 2010. pages 711–732
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The Changing Pattern of Wage Returns to Education and its Implications
It is commonly believed that labour-market returns to education are highest for the primary level of education and lower for subsequent levels. Recent evidence reviewed in this article suggests that the pattern is changing. The causes of such changes, and their implications for both education and labour-market policy, are explored.
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- Volume 28, Issue 6, November 2010. pages 733–747
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