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Methodological Issues in Measuring Group Learning
This article examines current empirical approaches to group learning. It focuses on two central questions: Are these approaches really measuring group learning, and what critical issues should be resolved in future group-learning research? The rationale for this examination is threefold. First, the last 10 years have seen a substantial increase in research on group learning. As this literature …
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- Vol. 42 no. 4, August 2011.pp. 379-404
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- Small Group Research
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Review of Virtual Environment Studies on Social and Group Phenomena
This article provides a review of previously published studies on virtual environments (VEs), focusing especially on empirical articles on social and group phenomena in VEs and their methodological and theoretical trends. VEs can be defined as communication systems in which interactants share the same three-dimensional digital space and can navigate, manipulate objects, and interact with one an…
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- Vol. 42 no. 4, August 2011.pp. 405-457
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Does Backing Up Behavior Explain the Efficacy—Performance Relationship in T…
Although the relationship between collective efficacy beliefs and team performance has been well-documented, few studies have explored the causal mechanisms that might explain these effects. In the current study, the authors explore the role of backing up behavior, a specific form of teamwork behavior, in explaining why high efficacy beliefs lead to high levels of team performance. Participants…
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- Vol. 42 no. 4, August 2011.pp. 458-474
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Effects of Anonymity and Social Comparison of Rewards on Computer-Mediated Gr…
Anonymity in computer-mediated communication (CMC) is valued in organizations because it can facilitate participation in discussions, especially of sensitive issues. Concerns over maintaining the motivation to participate in such discussions, because of the inability to reward people for their contributions, have led to the development of techniques that allow rewards to be allocated without id…
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- Vol. 42 no. 4, August 2011,pp. 475-503
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An Institutional Theory of Direct and Indirect Rule
Most governance arrangements involve spatial units with highly unequal powers, for example, a feudal monarchy and its principalities, an empire and its colonies, a formal empire and an informal empire (or sphere of influence), a national government and its subnational entities, or a regional government and its local entities. In this situation, the dominant unit (A) usually enjoys some discreti…
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- Vol. 63, Number 3, July 2011,pp. 377-433
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- 00438871
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- World Politics
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Embedded Mobilization : Nonstate Service Provision as Electoral Strategy in I…
How do elite parties win over poor voters while maintaining their core constituencies? How can religious parties expand their electoral base? This article argues that social service provision constitutes an important electoral strategy for elite-backed religious parties to succeed in developing democracies. The study demonstrates how the upper caste, Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJ…
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- Vol. 63, Number 3, July 2011,pp. 434-469
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The Rise of Indirect Affirmative Action : Converging Strategies for Promoting…
A growing trend in the comparative politics literature on patterns of minority incorporation emphasizes the emerging policy convergence in this area, conventional oppositions between national models notwithstanding. This convergence is further illustrated by drawing upon the cases of two countries often analyzed within an “exceptionalist” framework and generally viewed as polar opposites as far…
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- Vol. 63, Number 3, July 2011,pp. 470-508
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Globalization, Party Positions, and the Median Voter
The authors argue that the effects of economic globalization on social democratic parties in Western Europe are conditional on the position of the median voter. If the median is far enough to the right, such parties will adopt business-friendly policies because they are required to win office. Only when the median is relatively far to the left will globalization constrain social democratic part…
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- Vol. 63, Number 3,July 2011,pp. 509-547
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International Relations Theory and the Rise of European Foreign and Security …
The historical rise of European foreign, security, and defense policy marks an important development in European politics and world politics more broadly. Long thought unlikely to amount to much, European integration in the domains of traditional “high politics” has consolidated bit by bit since the mid-1990s, under the auspices of a common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and a pan-European …
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- Vol. 63 Number 3, July 2011,pp. 548-579
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INTRODUCTION : ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM IN GREECE, ITALY, PORTUGAL AND SPAIN
This symposium presents an overview of the state and administrative reforms in Southern Europe. The papers are written by scholars who are not only celebrated in their field, but also native to the country they write about. The report on Greece is by Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos and Calliope Spanou of Athens University. Edoardo Ongaro of Bocconi University Milan reports on Italy. In the case of Port…
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- Volume 89, Issue 3, September 2011, pp.721–722
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THE ODYSSEY OF ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS IN GREECE, 1981–2009 : A TALE OF TWO …
In Greece, two distinct reform paths led to institutional building and economic managerial types of reform. These two reforms, with the exception of the period 1996–2004, when both institutional and economic reforms were attempted, did not attract the same degree of attention. Institutional reforms were more successful than attempts at managerial reforms; reform implementation on the other hand…
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- Volume 89, Issue 3, September 2011, pages 723–737
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THE ROLE OF POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONS IN THE ITALIAN ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM TR…
This article applies broad conceptual categories of comparative politics to the explanation of administrative reforms in Italy. It takes as its argument some lines of influence on public sector reform of the features of the party system in Italy, the executive-legislative balance, the politician-bureaucrat relationship, and the role of administrative law. In the search for explanations for the …
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- Volume 89, Issue 3, September 2011, pages 738–755
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THE DIFFICULT TRANSFORMATION OF STATE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN PORTUGAL. …
Portugal has been characterized by a late discontinuous democratization process. This contribution discusses the case of state and public administration reform in Portugal by using approaches from democratization, modernization and Europeanization theories. In order to understand the Portuguese case, the concept of ‘neo-patrimonialism’ is used. We characterize Portuguese public administration a…
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- Volume 89, Issue 3, September 2011, pages 756–782
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ADMINISTRATIVE TRADITION AND REFORMS IN SPAIN : ADAPTATION VERSUS INNOVATION
The main purpose of this paper is understanding public administration formation and change in Spain. Its development before and since the years of Franco from 1939 to 1975, is noticeably path dependent in nature. As this paper will show, the foundations were laid before the Franco regime. Then came a period of political domination of the bureaucracy and the emergence of a key structural element…
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- Volume 89, Issue 3, September 2011, pages 783–800
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DISTINCTIVENESS OF ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM IN GREECE, ITALY, PORTUGAL AND SPAIN…
This article, the final part of the symposium, concentrates on the common characteristics of Southern European states and administrations that can explain the distinctiveness of the reforms there. First, we briefly consider the theoretical aspect of the country papers, that is, historical institutionalism. We then briefly review some common features of contextual factors such as welfare state, …
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- Volume 89, Issue 3, September 2011, pages 801–818
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ONLINE SERVICE PROVISION : ARE MUNICIPALITIES REALLY INNOVATIVE? THE CASE OF …
The employment of information and communication technologies for the delivery of information and services has been considered a major objective of the modernization agenda of municipalities. This article contributes to the advances in the e-government literature by assessing the current status of ICT adoption among larger Italian municipalities and investigating whether the municipalities at a …
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- Volume 89, Issue 3, September 2011, pages 821–839
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MULTI-LAYERED ACCOUNTABILITY. PERFORMANCE-BASED FUNDING OF UNIVERSITIES
In most Western countries there has been an increasing demand for new and different types of audit, evaluation and reporting systems that reveal the output of public sector organizations (Pollitt and Bouckaert 2000). Quality assessments have had a profound impact on the funding of university research, most visibly in the UK. However, the relationship between qualitative and quantitative indicat…
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- Volume 89, Issue 3, September 2011, pages 840–859
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STRENGTHENING THE LINK BETWEEN PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND DECISION MAKING
Many public agencies now face dual pressures to meet external accountability demands on one hand, and improve their internal performance on the other. This begs the question whether the demands that are made on public agencies to externally report on their performance have a limited or wide ranging impact on the utilization of performance indicators (PIs) for internal improvements. This article…
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- Volume 89, Issue 3, September 2011, pages 860–878
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UNDERSTANDING LOCAL GOVERNANCE : INSTITUTIONAL FORMS OF COLLABORATION
The article discusses institutional forms of governance, understanding governance as hybrid forms of collaboration, involving government, market actors and/or civil society actors. By utilizing data from a study made of three Norwegian cities, six collaborative efforts are presented, and discussed in relation to analytical characteristics derived from both network theory and organizational theo…
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- Volume 89, Issue 3, September 2011, pages 879–893
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CORPORATE CAPACITY AND PUBLIC SERVICE PERFORMANCE
Corporate capacity is arguably a key determinant of the success or failure of public sector organizations. However, while there is growing evidence on the extent of corporate capacity, few researchers have systematically examined whether it is linked to public service performance. Does a larger corporate centre lead to better or worse performance for the organization as a whole? To answer this …
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- Volume 89, Issue 3, September 2011, pages 894–908
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