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When a Market Runs a Hierarchy: Retrenchment of Bureaucratic Practices in Lithuanian Uniformed Services

Socialiniai Tyrimai, 2018
Some public administration literature that focuses on public administration reform indulges in constructing grand narrative theories such as New Public Management (NPM), or New Governance (NG).
Svajūnė Ungurytė-Ragauskienė, Mantas Bileišis   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Renewing Concerns of Technical Complexity in Accidents Research: An Argument to Retain Perrow's “First Thesis”

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT It has been 40 years since Charles Perrow published the landmark work Normal Accidents ([1984]1999), built largely on an analysis of the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant accident. While still a highly influential framework in the study of complex systems, the status of the argument remains in flux.
Joseph H. Spear
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Dualism: EU Policy Toward Central Asia Through Decarbonization, Problem Linkage, and Civil Society Engagement

Global Policy, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 723-733, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite the large reappraisal of the EU's security and economic interests in Central Asia, its foreign policy impact has remained weak. This article develops a constructivist, multi‐level framework to examine how European and Chinese approaches to decarbonization are translated into policy in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Morena Skalamera
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Planning and Public management Reform: The Case of Romania

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2015
Strategic planning is an excellent tool that local governments can (and should) use in order to deal effi ciently with change, which means that planning is an important aspect of public sector reform, arguably one of the defi ning elements of the public ...
Călin Emilian HINȚEA, Tudor Cristian ȚICLĂU   +1 more
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From Discretion to Calculation: How Analog Automation Shaped Digitalization of Finnish Social Assistance

Public Administration, Volume 104, Issue 3, Page 418-439, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Automation in public administration is often seen as a recent, purely digital phenomenon that transforms decision‐making and governance. This article challenges that view by elucidating a historical continuum in the automation of administrative decision‐making.
Aleksander Heikkinen, Minna van Gerven, Riikka Koulu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Politics Shapes Administration: Bureaucratic Autonomy, Policy Role Separation, and Organizational Capacity in an Institutionally Weak Public Administration

Public Administration and Development, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 384-397, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of administrative autonomy and the separation of roles in public policy on organizational capacity within hybrid public administration systems, particularly in Colombia. It explores the dynamics between elected officials and civil servants, focusing on how the division of responsibilities and the autonomy granted
Camilo Ignacio González, Pablo Sanabria‐Pulido   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Planning in Local Governments in Europe: 'Where Do We Go Now'?

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2015
This paper is part of a larger inquiry aiming to investigate the current results published in the scientifi c literature with respect to strategy development in local governments. The geographical area of interest consists of European Union (EU).
Veronica JUNJAN
doaj   +2 more sources

Queer Space in Transition: A Durkheimian Analysis of the Transformation of Queer Geographies

Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT The twenty‐first century has seen rapid developments to the structure of queer space. Following technological development and the shuttering of LGBTQ+ bars, clubs, and other physical institutions, transitory queer spaces such as digital networks and pop‐up events have become important forms of queer spatial life, bringing into question how ...
Rachel Gallagher, Melanie Heath
wiley   +1 more source

The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law

The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 4, Page 531-561, July 2026.
This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
wiley   +1 more source

Neo-Weberian Historical Sociology, the English School and Differentiated Integration in the E

, 2020
This article explores the contributions of Neo-Weberian historical sociology of the state and the English School of International Relations theory to our understanding of differentiated integration in the European Union.
Ruacan, İpek Zeynep
core   +1 more source