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White paper
About: White paper is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3852 publications have been published within this topic receiving 51169 citations. The topic is also known as: White paper & White papers.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine arms-length regulation of UK government and assess the precepts for public-sector regulation embodied in the Blair Labour government's official vision of public-man-management reform, its Modernising Government White Paper of 1999.
Abstract: This article examines arms-length 'regulation' of UK government – the public-sector analogy to regulation of business firms — and assesses the precepts for public-sector regulation embodied in the Blair Labour government's official vision of public-man-agement reform, its Modernising Government White Paper of 1999. As a background to assessing the recipes for public-sector regulation in Modernising Government, the article shows that such regulation grew markedly both in the two decades up to 1997 and in the plans and activities of the Blair government from 1997 to 1999. Against that background, the design principles for public-sector regulation contained in Modernising Government are assessed. The White Paper was notable for embracing a doctrine of 'enforced self-regulation' for the public sector that involved aspirations to both more and less public-sector regulation in the future. It put its faith in a mixture of oversight and mutuality for 'regulating regulation'. But in spite of the radical-sounding tone of Modernising Government, the measures proposed appeared limited and half-hearted, and two well-known institutional design principles for regulation seemed to be missing altogether from the Blair government's view of administrative 'modernity'.
170 citations
01 Jan 2007
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01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: The small-business sector in South Africa's economic development is discussed in this article, where the authors highlight the role and contribution of SMMEs in the country's economic growth.
Abstract: PART TWO The small-business sector in South Africa's economic development....9 2.1 Size and diversity of the sector................................9 2.2 Role and contribution of the sector............................10 2.3 Constraints facing the small-business sector...................11 2.4 Past support policies..........................................12 2.5 International input............................................13 2.6 Research on SMMEs..............................................14
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate experiences in relation to four key principles of the participation process and conclude that evidence of substantive impacts on local transport planning or a strategic approach to the participatory process is sparse -a situation which is, they argue, traceable back to the lack of clarity in central government policy and guidance.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical study of environmental policy integration in the EU is presented, showing significant administrative weaknesses and concluding that the coordination challenges now troubling the EU require a more thoughtful discussion of network management than the White Paper suggests.
Abstract: Now it is widely accepted that the European Union (EU) constitutes a system of governance, analysts need actively to explore precisely how it may affect the continuing struggle better to coordinate national and European administrations. In its 2001 White Paper on governance, the European Commission interpreted governance to mean less central control and more network-led steering. Its interpretation of such networks is that they are self-organizing. Drawing upon an empirical study of environmental policy integration (EPI) in the EU, this article shows that this vision may not adequately fit the multi-actor, multi-level coordination challenges associated with some EU problems. By studying the administrative capacities that the European Commission and three member states have created to achieve better environmental coordination, this article shows significant administrative weaknesses. It concludes that the coordination challenges now troubling the EU require a more thoughtful discussion of network management than the White Paper suggests.
163 citations