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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
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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

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

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
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Institutions as Knowledge Capital: Ludwig M. Lachmann’s Interpretative Institutionalism [PDF]

The paper revisits the socioeconomic theory of the Austrian School economist Ludwig M. Lachmann. By showing that the common claim that Lachmann’s idiosyncratic (read: eclectic and multidisciplinary) approach to economics entails nihilism is unfounded, it
Foss, Nicolai, Garzarelli, Giampaolo
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Governing the Local Digital Transformation: A European Comparative Perspective

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study compares governance structures, policy formulation and implementation of administrative digitalization at the local level in three countries with different administrative traditions: France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Sabine Kuhlmann, Justine Marienfeldt, Frederico Ganz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nordic welfare financiers made global portfolio investors : institutional change in pension fund governance in Sweden and Finland [PDF]

, 2010
Pension funds have lately emerged as an essential field of study in various disciplines within social sciences. Political economists, economic geographers and some social policy researchers have studied the role of pension funds very broadly for instance
Roumpakis, Antonios, Sorsa, Ville-Pekka
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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

Resource Substitution: Local Governments' Issue Attention and Policy Reinvention

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on policy reinvention, where a government modifies rather than replicates policy innovations introduced by other governments, has progressed significantly, but how it is influenced by the government's issue attention has not been thoroughly examined.
Yingxin Zhang, Yixue Yao, Kaifeng Yang
wiley   +1 more source

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