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The hollowing out of the state: the changing nature of the public service in britain
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This article is published in The Political Quarterly.The article was published on 1994-04-01. It has received 922 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: AP United States Government and Politics & Public service.read more
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The New Governance: Governing Without Government
TL;DR: The term "governance" is popular but imprecise. It has at least six uses, referring to: the minimal state; corporate governance: the new public management; good governance; socio-cybernetic syste...
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Understanding Governance: Ten Years On:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reassess the argument in Understanding Governance (1997) and present a decentred answer to the question of where we go from here, arguing that the analysis of governance should focus on beliefs, practices, traditions and dilemmas.
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The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities and the Communitarian Agenda
TL;DR: Communitarianism is a movement, founded by Amitai Etzioni in 1991, whose adherents are united in the belief that the West must balance their passion for individualism with a new sense of social responsibility as discussed by the authors.
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‘Governance’ as a bridge between disciplines: Cross-disciplinary inspiration regarding shifts in governance and problems of governability, accountability and legitimacy
TL;DR: In recent decades, a number of changes in the forms and mechanisms of governance by which institutional and orga- nizational societal sectors and spheres are governed, as well as in the location of governance from where command, administration, management and control of societal institutions and spheres were conducted as mentioned in this paper.
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Comparing Public and Private Organizations: Empirical Research and the Power of the A Priori
Hal G. Rainey,Barry Bozeman +1 more
TL;DR: The authors assesses several major streams in this research over the last two decades, which in some ways refute widely held a priori assumptions about similarities and differences between public and private organizations.
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A public management for all seasons
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the doctrinal content of the group of ideas known as "New Public Management" (NPM), the intellectual provenance of those ideas, explanations for their apparent persuasiveness in the 1980 s; and criticisms which have been made of the new doctrines.
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The joint‐decision trap: lessons from german federalism and european integration
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the similarities between joint decision making in German federalism and decision-making in the European Community and argued that the fact that member governments are directly participating in central decisions, and that there is a de facto requirement of unanimous decisions, will systematically generate sub-optimal policy outcomes unless a "problem-solving" (as opposed to a "bargaining") style of decision making can be maintained.
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Change in the management of public services
John Stewart,Kieron Walsh +1 more
TL;DR: The authors identifies the main themes in recent changes in public sector management and shows the extent of the challenge to past organizational assumptions and argues that there are a series of issues that are unresolved.
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Citizenship and Government: The Challenge for Management in the Public Domain
Stewart Ranson,John Stewart +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the distinctive challenge for the public domain derives from the duality of publicness: the need to enable citizens in their plurality to express their contribution to the life of the community and out of that plurality, to enable a process of collective choice and the government of action in the public interest to take place.