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Moving Beyond New Public Management: How Business Type‐Management Is Embedded in the Swedish State Through Institutional Hooks

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, criticism facing Business‐Type Management within the state has led governments to call for new management models. In many cases, this ambition has not been accompanied by concrete actions signaling a clear break with BTM. There has been limited capacity for critical reflection, learning, and innovative thinking.
Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg, Göran Sundström   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Institutions Produce Institutional Change? The New Historical Institutionalism and Analytic Innovations in the Theory of Change

Brazilian Political Science Review, 2011
This essay discusses the problem of endogenous institutional change in the context of the new historical institutionalism. It reviews the critique of traditional theorizing on institutional change and offers a comparative analysis of innovative ...
Flávio da Cunha Rezende
doaj  

Explaining the Green Development Behavior of Local Governments for Sustainable Development: Evidence from China. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel), 2023
Du J, Zhu X, Li X, Ünal E, Longhurst P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Leading the Charge: The Role of Women in Municipal Budgeting

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender inclusion and diversity have become increasingly important in local governance as a tool to improve equitable public decision‐making. Despite these efforts, the representation of women in leadership roles, particularly those heading initiatives such as social equity budgeting (SEB), varies greatly by municipality.
Saman Afshan
wiley   +1 more source

The varied perspectives of organisational effectiveness: What’s at stake for early childhood development programmes in Rwanda?

Global Public Health
Within global health and development, dissatisfaction with nongovernmental organisations’ effectiveness (NGOs) is an increasingly pervasive aspect of programming.
Lyndsey D. McMahan, Courtenay Sprague
doaj   +1 more source

New Institutionalism Politics: Integration of Old Institutionalism and Other Methodologies

Asian Social Science, 2009
In the process of transition from old institutionalism to new institutionalism, theoretical foundation of old institutionalism was gradually enlarged and more research approaches were integrated. Firstly, rational aspects of behavioristic politics as borrowed. Then, its epistemology, its research target and research level are expanded.
openaire   +2 more sources

Conflict Resolution in the 21st Century: A South Asian Perspective

Pacific Focus, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conflicts in the contemporary international system have increasingly shifted from state‐centric power struggles to deeply rooted human needs crises. This study applies John Burton's Human Needs Theory to explain the persistence of the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan, focusing on the deprivation of identity, recognition, and ...
Hafeez Ullah Khan
wiley   +1 more source

Blocking the Poor: Status Quo Bias in Policy Congruence

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on unequal responsiveness has shown that policies tend to align more closely with the preferences of high‐income citizens than low‐income citizens. Using comparative data on opinions and policies, we suggest that this inequality primarily results from status quo bias; asymmetric blocking power drives unequal congruence rather than ...
Mikael Persson, Anders Sundell
wiley   +1 more source

Analytical Challenges for Neoinstitutional Theories of Institutional Change in Comparative Political Science

Brazilian Political Science Review, 2009
This article analyses the core critiques on institutional change theories within the neoinstitutional research agenda in comparative political science. If offers an explanatory typology using analytical challenges for the development of theories with new
Flávio Rezende
doaj  

Agency, Interrupted: Does Organizational Restructuring Improve Managerial Gender Parity? Testing a Disruption Hypothesis

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Administrative restructuring is an organizational phenomenon suggested to improve under‐represented groups' managerial representation by disrupting networks and institutions. However, extant tests of a ‘disruption hypothesis’ are collectively inconclusive. We elaborate and test it with a qualitative‐to‐quantitative study of local health agency
Rebecca A. E. Kirley, Carlotta Varriale
wiley   +1 more source