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FOR LACK OF ANYTHING BETTER? INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND GLOBAL CORPORATE…
This paper analyses the two most important international programmes for the voluntary regulation of corporate behaviour: the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Corporations and the UN Global Compact. It argues that international organizations adopted them mostly for reasons of political feasibility: by imposing minimal constraints on constituents the codes circumvented the most pressing problems…
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- Volume 89, Issue 2, June 2011, pages 451–470
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WHY DO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS PRIVATIZE THE PROVISION OF WATER SERVICES? EMPIRICAL…
Why do some local governments privatize water services, while others opt for public management? Economic literature has been unable to demonstrate that private management is more efficient than public management, so there must be other reasons that lead governments to privatize the service. But what are they? This paper presents the results of a study that analyses the factors behind the privat…
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- Volume 89, Issue 2, June 2011, pages 471–492
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PSYCHOLOGICAL BARRIERS IN THE ROAD TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT : EVIDENCE FROM…
This article provides a conceptual framework for understanding key psychological barriers to implementing sustainable development in procurement process by local government and health care authorities. This task is an important one as a comprehension of psychological barriers is a prerequisite for understanding how individuals engage with the often more visible technical, budgetary or regulator…
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- Volume 89, Issue 2, June 2011, pages 493–521
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DIVERSITY AND DOMINANCE IN THE ARCTIC. ETHNIC RELATIONS IN THE GREENLANDIC BU…
Public bureaucracies are increasingly characterized by employee diversity in terms of ethnicity. Investigating relations between ethnic groups in bureaucracies is therefore important. This article focuses on the particularly interesting case of the Greenlandic administration. Being a former Danish colony, Greenland still recruits bureaucrats from mainland Denmark. These work alongside locally h…
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- Volume 89, Issue 2, June 2011, pages 522–536
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BRINGING STRUCTURES BACK IN : THE ‘GOVERNANCE NARRATIVE’, THE ‘DECENTRE…
We reflect upon the ‘governance narrative’ as a means of conceptualizing recent developments in the British state. Recent public administration research has advocated a ‘decentred approach’ that would reject the linear narrative of a shift from hierarchical to network governance. We seek to build on ‘decentring’ theorists' critique of existing governance literature by offering case studies of t…
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- Volume 89, Issue 2, June 2011, pages 537–556
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THE INFLUENCE OF MANAGERIAL AND JOB VARIABLES ON ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT IN…
Like all public sector agencies police forces are under constant pressure to improve their performance through better management of existing resources. However, little research has been done that explains how officers' organizational commitment, an essential requirement for above average employee productivity, can be improved. Using a whole population survey of a county police force in the UK, …
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- Volume 89, Issue 2, June 2011, pages 557–576
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS AND THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS : THE CASE OF C…
This article examines how administrative professionals affect the diffusion of one-stop shops in the form of integrated citizen service centres (CSC) in a Danish local government setting. CSCs are an example of a new organizational form: functionally integrated small units (FISUs). The diffusion of the CSCs among municipalities is used to analyse how administrative professionals act as drivers …
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- Volume 89, Issue 2, June 2011, pages 577–594
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PROMOTING CIVIC CULTURE BY SUPPORTING CITIZENSHIP : WHAT DIFFERENCE CAN LOCAL…
Scholars and policy-makers alike argue that government efforts to empower citizens and build cohesive communities are integral to the development of a flourishing civic culture, especially within disadvantaged areas. In this paper, we explore this assumption by analysing the impact of different approaches to supporting citizenship in English urban local authorities on levels of political effica…
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- Volume 89, Issue 2, June 2011, pages 595–610
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN POLAND : EMPIRICAL INSIGHTS INTO THE PROCESS OF ENVIRONME…
The subject of this investigation is the performance of Polish local government and its ability to make and implement environmental policy. The article proposes an assessment of national policy implementation based on policy outputs in the form of local policy programmes. National policy is implemented inter alia through elaboration, adoption and execution of environmental protection programmes…
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- Volume 89, Issue 2, June 2011, pages 611–628
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LIFE AND DEATH OF AN INSTITUTION : THE CASE OF COLLECTIVE WHEAT MARKETING IN …
Since the 1980s, there has been renewed interest among political scientists in the role of institutions. An important strand of this ‘new institutionalism’ is historical institutionalism. Recent theoretical developments have sought to address the most obvious criticisms of the historical institutionalist approach, particularly the critique relating to its tendency to focus on explanations of st…
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- Volume 89, Issue 2, June 2011, pages 629–643
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THE CONTENT AND CONTEXT OF ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS
The aim of this paper is to provide an empirical contextual picture of what is truly valued most in different public and private sector organizations. Through a series of qualitative in-depth interviews (n = 38), that were a follow-up to an earlier survey study among public and private sector managers (n = 382), a number of crucial organizational values were presented to and discussed with a se…
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- Volume 89, Issue 2, June 2011, pages 644–660
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FOR APPROPRIATENESS OR CONSEQUENCES? EXPLAINING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN ENGL…
New institutional theory suggests that radical organizational change is guided by a logic of appropriateness in which organizations change their structures and processes in response to changes in prevailing notions of how best to organize. Contingency theories suggests, by contrast, that organizations pursue a logic of consequentiality, trying to maximize performance by adjusting structures and…
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- Volume 89, Issue 2, June 2011, pages 661–680
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WOMEN IN UK PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION SCHOLARSHIP?
The promotion of gender equality has been adopted onto many national policy agendas with the introduction of legislation, public policies and regulatory duties. Yet, gender occupational segregation and discrimination persists. This paper examines the gendered nature of the UK public sector and questions the extent to which public administration scholarship addresses gender bias. The evidence, b…
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- Volume 89, Issue 2, June 2011, pages 681–697
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The Executive Budget in the Federal Government : The First Century and Beyond
This article reviews the history of executive budgeting in the United States a century after President William Howard Taft's Economy and Efficiency Commission proposed an executive budget. This history, the authors argue, does not suggest that giving more budget power to the president will improve budget outcomes. Instead, what is needed is more cooperation between the branches of government an…
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- Volume 71, Issue 3, pages 334–344, May/June 2011
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The (Il)logics of Federal Budgeting, and Why Crisis Must Come
The U.S. federal budgeting system faces severe challenges in coming years. Deficits are being recorded at levels and with regularity not seen in prior periods. This article suggests that such problems reflect the uncomfortable mix of logics informing budgetary and political institutions—that is, the rules of the game. Logics make it appropriate to expect that government be limited in its tax de…
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- Volume 71, Issue 3, pages 345–348, May/June 2011
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The Case for Congressional Budgeting
William Howard Taft and Frederick A. Cleveland’s vision of executive budgeting clashes with the unique status of the U.S. Congress among the world’s legislatures, and its proponents may exaggerate the potential for presidents to act as fiscal guardians. This article advocates more congressional budgeting by reinstituting effective fiscal rules and strengthening the role of the budget committees…
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- Volume 71, Issue 3, pages 349–351, May/June 2011
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The Obama Administration and PBB : Building on the Legacy of Federal Performa…
The administration of President Barack Obama, like those of his immediate predecessors, is focused on trying to improve the quality of, and use of, performance data. The federal government has been pursuing performance-informed budget reforms for more than 50 years. Most recently, the Bush administration reforms included the President’s Management Agenda and the Program Assessment Rating Tool (…
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- Volume 71, Issue 3, pages 356–367, May/June 2011
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State Performance-Based Budgeting in Boom and Bust Years : An Analytical Fram…
The authors examine the track record of applying performance-based budgeting (PBB) across three time periods within a sample of U.S. state governments: (1) throughout the 1990s, (2) in the early 2000s, and (3) during the Great Recession. State-level PBB is analyzed according to four elements: (1) the development of performance measures, (2) its applicability to budgeting and management processe…
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- Volume 71, Issue 3, pages 370–388, May/June 2011
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PBB in American Local Governments : It's More than a Management Tool
Despite academic findings that performance information seldom is used in appropriations decisions, many professional organizations and governments continue to press for integrating performance information into local public management, planning, and budgeting processes. Is it possible to reconcile such inconsistencies? Looking beyond the executive–legislative relationship and departmental approp…
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- Volume 71, Issue 3, pages 391–401, May/June 2011
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Assembling E-Government Research Designs : A Transdisciplinary View and Inter…
There is a growing recognition in the field of e-government that improving the quality and impact of research requires taking into account their complex contexts and drawing on more interdisciplinary and collaborative research. Limited attention so far has been directed toward the conduct of such research, particularly in contract-based research arrangements for developing e-government policy. …
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- Volume 71, Issue 3, pages 405–413, May/June 2011
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