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Realist Evaluation in Wraparound : A New Approach in Social Work Evidence-Bas…
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to develop a realist evaluation paradigm in social work evidence-based practice. Method: Wraparound (at Gateway-Longview Inc., New York) used a reliable outcome measure and an electronic database to systematically collect and analyze data on the interventions, the client demographics and circumstances, and the outcomes. Results: Research designs (e.g., …
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- Vol. 21 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 57-64
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Predictors of Adopting Motivational Enhancement Therapy
Substance abuse counselors have shown limited success in adopting evidence-based practices (EBPs). The purpose of this paper is to identify the barriers and facilitators of adopting an EBP called motivational enhancement therapy (MET). One hundred thirty-six predominantly female (60%) African American (68%) addiction counselors representing over 40 agencies completed surveys before and after pa…
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- Vol. 21 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 65-76
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An Effective Model for Continuing Education Training in Evidence-Based Practice
This study utilized a replicated one-group pretest-posttest design with 3 month follow-up to evaluate the impact of a one-day continuing education training on the evidence-based practice (EBP) process with community practitioners (N = 69). Outcome measures assessed the level of workshop participants familiarity with the EBP process, their attitudes toward the EBP process, their perceived feasi…
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- Vol. 21 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 77-87
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Measuring Parenting Practices Among Parents of Elementary School-Age Youth
Objectives: The objective of this study is to establish the factor structure of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ), an instrument designed to measure parenting practices among parents of elementary school children. Methods: Exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory factor analytic (CFA) procedures are used to validate the APQ with 790 parents of children, ages 610. Results: Three subscales eme…
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- Vol. 21 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 88-97
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A Conceptually Based Scale to Measure Consumers’ Treatment Motivation
Objectives: The objective of this work was to assess the reliability and validity of the Treatment Motivation Questionnaire Revised (TMQ-R) in people with serious mental illness (SMI). Method: A large sample of consumers of mental health services (n = 469) were administered the TMQ-R. Results: The factor structure specified in previous research did not fit the data well. However, a five-factor…
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- Vol. 21 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 98-105
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Validation of the Evidence-Based Practice Process Assessment Scale
Objective: This report describes the reliability, validity, and sensitivity of a scale that assesses practitioners perceived familiarity with, attitudes of, and implementation of the evidence-based practice (EBP) process. Method: Social work practitioners and second-year master of social works (MSW) students (N = 511) were surveyed in four sites to assess the scales internal consistency re…
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- Vol. 21 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 106-118
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Management Innovation and Organizational Performance : The Mediating Effect o…
Management innovations (MIs) are widely adopted, but their influences on organizational performance are little researched in public settings. Positing that the MI-performance relationship is complex and is conditional over other characteristics of the organization, we examine the influence of MI on organizational performance both directly and indirectly through performance management (PM). PM i…
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- Vol. 21, Number 2, April 2011.pp. 367-386
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- Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
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“Modernizing Government” : Mapping Global Public Policy Networks
Public sector reform is a key policy area, driven by global public policy networks. Research on these networks has been inductive, highlighting organizations like the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This article examines virtual policy networks (VPNs) on the Web. Using IssueCrawler, we conduct a hyperlink analysis that permits us to map seven VPNs. The first net…
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- Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2011, pages 439–467
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The Loss of Governance Capacity through Corruption
Corruption manifests itself in many ways and at different levels. Corrupt behavior causes outrage to victims and those who value civil society, it impedes good government and administrative practice. The policy challenge in reducing corruption is to identify the component parts of corrupt behavior and the riskreward profiles of offenders. This exploratory article begins this process by reporti…
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- Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2011, pages 419–438
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The Influence of Political Parties on Policy Coordination
Despite an increasing interest in party-state relations, the functions political parties as organizations fulfill in the government apparatus are rarely theorized or empirically examined. Instead of focusing on citizen demands toward parties, this article focuses on the demands of government. It argues that party organizational linkages help integrate an increasingly complex government apparatu…
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- Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2011, pages 469–494
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Procedural Change and the Sources of Ex Ante Constraints in EU Legislation
With 27 member states using a variety of administrative practices and institutions to implement European Union (EU) policy, the EU has been widely used as a natural laboratory for analyzing administrative politics and institutions. This research has largely focused on the institutional relationships as they are at the time of the analysis. However, the EU has used several legislative procedures…
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- Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2011, pages 495–516
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Improving Performance in New Zealand's Public Corporations: The Effect of Gov…
This article examines whether the corporate governance practices recommended by the New Zealand Securities Commission (NZSC) in 2004 have affected the financial performance of public sector corporate entities in New Zealand. The findings indicate that these entities have universally adopted the Securities Commission recommendations by establishing subcommittees for audit and remuneration, and h…
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- Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2011. pages 517–556
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Improving Performance in New Zealand's Public Corporations : The Effect of Go…
This article examines whether the corporate governance practices recommended by the New Zealand Securities Commission (NZSC) in 2004 have affected the financial performance of public sector corporate entities in New Zealand. The findings indicate that these entities have universally adopted the Securities Commission recommendations by establishing subcommittees for audit and remuneration, and h…
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- Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2011, pages 517–556
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Organizational Reputations and the Observability of Public Warnings in 10 Pha…
How does a regulator's reputation affect the public observability of its regulatory errors? I present a verbal model in the policy domain of drug safety that suggests that media coverage of the regulator's errors is a function of the regulator's predominant basis of reputation. Media coverage will be lowest when the regulator has a reputation for scientific expertise in preapproval drug evaluat…
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- Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2011, pages 557–582
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Europeanization and Domestic Employment Policy Change : Conceptual and Method…
The article deals with the differential domestic employment policy adaptation to the European Employment Strategy that occurred over the past years in two European countriesItaly and France. Building on the Europeanization and welfare state change literature, the contribution operationalizes the goodness of fit hypothesis and develops a policy structure approach for the analysis of domesti…
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- Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2011, pages 583–605
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Measuring and Promoting Budget Transparency : The Open Budget Index as a Rese…
Transparency in public budgeting has been a recognized principle of sound governance for a long time. Yet, reliable measures of budget transparency are hard to come by. This article introduces the Open Budget Index (OBI), a new tool based on surveys by independent researchers that compares key budget information published by governments across the world. Data from the latest survey, published i…
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- Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2011, pages 607–616
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Wets and Dries Resurgent ? Intra-Party Alignments Among Contemporary Conserva…
This article maps new survey data to show that there are three main ideological tendencies among Conservative Party members today and that they differ significantly on a range of contemporary political issues. The Liberal conservatives are the youngest, most male, claim to be the most active of these tendencies, and are distinguished by being the least hostile to Europe and immigration, to envi…
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- Vol. 64, No. 3, July 2011, pp. 383-402
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How Big is the Big Society?
At the core of David Cameron's vision for revitalizing both the UK and the Conservative party is what he describes as the Big Society. The concept calls for a restructuring of the relationship between state and society, with a substantial movement of power and responsibility from the former to the latter. Alongside a larger role for social enterprises, charities and voluntary organisations in t…
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- Vol. 64, No. 3, July 2011, pp. 403-424
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The Spatial Approach to the Party Mandate
This article applies spatial theory to the question of the party mandate. The party mandate model provides a system of linkage between citizen's preferences and parliamentary and governmental politics. Existing approaches to the party mandate focus on parties governmental mandate: do parties enact their pledges? Instead, the spatial approach looks at the representative aspect of the party mand…
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- Vol. 64. No. 3, July 2011.pp 425-447
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Rethinking Descriptive Representation : Rendering Women in Legislative Debates
This article addresses debates on identity and interest representation by re-conceptualising descriptive representation. The article revisits Pitkin's original work, arguing that descriptive representatives actively stand for their constituents by making claims about group members' needs, circumstances and values. The utility of this re-conceptualisation is explored by analysing parliamentari…
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- Vol. 64, No. 3, July 2011.pp 448-472
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