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STATE REGULATORY CAPACITY : EXPERIENCES FROM PUBLIC SECTOR REFORMS IN NORWAY
State regulatory capacity is being threatened by internationalization, commercialization and persistent demand for public services. The article addresses the overarching question of how the state is changing due to recent public sector reforms. By studying changes in the regulation of the health care sector and the food sector in Norway, the article challenges the assumption that recent public …
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- Volume 89, Issue 4, December 2011, pages 1568–1584
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PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP CONTRACTS : A TALE OF TWO CITIES WITH DIFFERENT CO…
This paper analyses regulation by contract in public-private partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure services. Although the benefits of competition for the market and subsequent regulatory contracts are recognized, the literature also identifies contract design failures. When considering these limitations, it is useful to distinguish between contracts associated with purely contractual PPPs (…
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- Volume 89, Issue 4, December 2011, pages 1585–1603
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PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY AND PASTORAL POWER : THE TRANSFORMATION OF QUALITY REGI…
In the context of the recent transformation of control in Swedish health care, the changing role of quality registers are analysed as a vivid example of how professional groups become involved in new modes of regulating professional work. Based on a critical appraisal of the main currents in the research on NPM, it is argued that understanding ‘the productive side of power’ is an underexploited…
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- Volume 89, Issue 4, December 2011, pages 1604–1621
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GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO DO ITS JOB. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GOVERNANCE SHIFTS …
Governance in higher education has undergone certain substantial shifts in recent decades. In order to analyse this process from an empirical point of view, a specific understanding of governance, based on the role of the public power in question (state, government or another such power, depending on the context) has been assumed. Changes in systemic governance (and consequently also at the ins…
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- Volume 89, Issue 4, December 2011, pages 1622–1642
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POLICY CHANGE AND SOFT EUROPEANIZATION : THE TRANSFER OF THE OMBUDSMAN INSTIT…
The paper adopts a historical institutionalist approach to Europeanization and argues that policy change is facilitated by three factors. First, it is driven by ‘soft’ mechanisms of Europeanization such as policy transfer. The EU provides the framework for reform and functions as a platform of best practices. Policy transfer mechanisms are implemented in order for member states to pick and choo…
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- Volume 89, Issue 4, December 2011, pages 1643–1663
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THE IMPACT OF FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ON WHITEHALL
This article examines whether the UK Freedom of Information Act 2000 has changed Whitehall. Based on a two-year, ESRC-funded study, it evaluates the impact of FOI on five characteristics of the Whitehall model: the culture of secrecy, ministerial accountability to Parliament, civil service neutrality, the Cabinet system, and effective government. Proponents of FOI hoped that government would be…
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- Volume 89, Issue 4, December 2011, pages 1664–1681
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Alcohol- and Drug-Involved Driving in the United States : Methodology for the…
This article describes the methodology used in the 2007 U.S. National Roadside Survey to estimate the prevalence of alcohol- and drug-impaired driving and alcohol- and drug-involved driving. This study involved randomly stopping drivers at 300 locations across the 48 continental U.S. states at sites selected through a stratified random sampling procedure. Data were collected during a 2-hr Frida…
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- Vol. 35 no. 4, August 2011,pp. 319-353
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The Geography of Deterrence : Exploring the Small Area Effects of Sobriety Ch…
This article examines alcohol-impaired collision metrics around nine sobriety checkpoint locations in Indianapolis, Indiana, before and after implementation of 22 checkpoints, using a pre/post examination, a pre/post nonequivalent comparison group analysis, and an interrupted time series approach. Traffic safety officials used geographical information system (GIS) analysis to help select checkp…
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- Vol. 35 no. 4, August 2011.pp. 354-378
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Effectiveness of a Psychosocial Intervention Model for Persons With Chronic P…
The article describes a psychosocial model of intervention with psychiatric patients in long-term hospitalization in a psychiatric ward in Israel and reports the findings of the evaluation conducted of its effectiveness. The model was aimed at maintaining or improving the patients' functioning in four main areas: personal hygiene, environmental maintenance, occupational competency, and social a…
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- Vol. 35 no. 4, August 2011.pp. 379-398
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Virtues of SIN : Can Intensified Public Efforts Help Disadvantaged Immigrants?
The labor market integration of immigrants is a top political priority throughout the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Social and fiscal gains, as well as sustained future labor supply make governments search for effective policies to increase employment among the mostly disadvantaged. The author studies SIN, a Swedish pilot workplace introduction program …
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- Vol. 35 no. 4, August 2011,pp. 399-427
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PartyIntents : A Portal Survey to Assess Gay and Bisexual Men’s Risk Behavi…
PartyIntents examines whether portal survey methods could be used to anonymously survey gay and bisexual men about HIV-risk behaviors before and after a weekend party–oriented vacation. The study recruited 97% of eligible men and of these 489 participants 47% completed the follow-up assessment. Approximately one half of the men intended to use illegal drugs over the weekend, and almost 20% thou…
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- Vol. 35 no. 4, August 2011.pp. 428-451
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Creating Shared Responsibility through Respect for Military Culture : The Rus…
The key problem in civil-military relations in established polities such as Russia and the United States is not civilian control of the military, but rather how to create a symbiotic relationship of “shared responsibility” between senior military officers and civilian leaders. In such a situation, civilian leaders obtain much needed expertise from the military, but ultimately remain in control.…
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- Volume 71, Issue 4, July/August 2011, pages 519–52
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Putting Conflict Where It Belongs : A Response to “Creating Shared Responsi…
Professor Dale R. Herspring argues that civil-military relations should move beyond a preoccupation with civilian control; instead, he says, the focus should be on the degree and nature of conflict within civil-military interactions. This alternative theoretical view adds much to the extant literature and allows future work to concentrate both on a more nuanced account of the effects of civil-m…
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- Volume 71, Issue 4, July/August 2011, pages 530–53
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Homeowners Associations as Private Governments : What We Know, What We Don’…
Homeowners associations (HOAs) are private governments that are reshaping urban governance and service delivery in large parts of the United States. Despite the fact that millions of Americans are HOA members, the field of public affairs has paid scant attention to these new governance entities. The essays in this symposium call attention to HOAs’ potential effects on urban services and civic l…
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- Volume 71, Issue 4, July/August 2011, pages 535–54
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One-way, Two-way, or Dead-end Street : British Influence on the Study of Publ…
What intellectual influence, if any, have British public administration scholars had on their American counterparts since World War II? In this article, the author briefly reviews the major areas of theory and research in the British study of publication administration, further identifying important contributions by British scholars in the areas of modernist-empiricism, the new public managemen…
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- Volume 71, Issue 4, July/August 2011, pages 559–57
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Top Management Turnover and Organizational Performance : A Test of a Continge…
A crucial test of whether “management matters” is whether changes in the team at the top of an organization make a difference. Focusing on turnover in the collective senior team rather than successions of individual chief executives, this article argues that the impact of leadership succession is contingent upon prior organizational performance. The evidence on English local government shows th…
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- Volume 71, Issue 4, July/August 2011, pages 572–58
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Organizational Pathology Compared to What? Impacts of Job Characteristics and…
Early studies of organizational red tape emphasized that worker perceptions of organizational rules and procedures are dependent on workers’ frames of reference. However, most prior studies do not account sufficiently for how and why these reference points vary across employees, even if they work within the same or similar organizational contexts. While the effects of contemporaneous employee a…
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- Volume 71, Issue 4, July/August 2011, pages 582–59
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Networked Coproduction of Public Services in Virtual Communities : From a Gov…
Research on and practical attention for the coproduction of public services is increasing. Coproduction is seen as a way to strengthen the quality and legitimacy of public service and reduce costs. Scholarship on coproduction of public services repeatedly ignores the role of the new media. This is surprising since many proponents highlight its potential for changing traditional, government-cent…
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- Volume 71, Issue 4, July/August 2011, pages 598–60
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Resource Dependence, Alternative Supply Sources, and the Design of Formal Con…
Employing a resource dependence theoretical framework, the authors analyze a set of recently awarded contracts between the Environmental Protection Agency and its suppliers to determine how joint dependence, supplier dependence, and government dependence affect contract design—specifically, the decision to use a cost-plus (flexible) contract. Findings provide evidence that organizations choose …
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- Volume 71, Issue 4, July/August 2011, pages 608–61
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Public–Private Partnerships in Urban Regeneration Projects : Organizational…
Urban regeneration companies (URCs) are public-private entities appearing across Europe. They are created specifically to manage and implement more effectively urban regeneration projects. Core ideas behind the establishment of these newly emerging partnerships aim to tackle the challenging process of restructuring these organizations so as to function at arm’s length from political oversight. …
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- Volume 71, Issue 4, July/August 2011, pages 618–62
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