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127 Public administration Articles
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Leadership Metaphors
web.hks.harvard.edu— — Harvard School of Government article discussing the significance of leadership metaphors in appreciating people’s underlying/hidden attitudes and approaches towards different styles of leadership
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The New Accountability? Devolution and Expenditure Politics in Scotland
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“Devolution is seen to be a means for enhancing democratic control and accountability in the British political system)…This article focuses on expenditure politics in the budget and audit processes of the Scottish Parliament.”
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Models of Political Accountability and Concepts of Australian Government
blackwell-synergy.com— — “One immediate task for those interested in accountability is to map the basic features of the Australian system (best understood as ‘executive federalism’) in order to provide foundations for new accountability models”
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Democracy and bureaucracy - Judith Gruber
informaworld.com— — “This paper calls for greater control resources for elected officials whereby they can overcome the abundant power resources of bureaucrats. A process of exchange as against a process of authority is suggested as a strategic means of democratic control over bureaucracy.”
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Gender and Bureaucracies —A Critique of Ferguson's ‘The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy’ - Yvonne Due Billing
blackwell-synergy.com— — “In feminist analysis, salient in Kathy Ferguson’s ‘The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy’, there is a tendency to have a one-sided view on bureaucracies and to regard these merely as products of ‘maleness’ and as incompatible with (radical) feminism.”
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Public Choice Theory and Public Choices: Bureaucrats and State Reorganization in Australia Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden in the 1980s
people.virginia.edu— — “Reorganizers of the state in Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, and Sweden during the 1980s tried to separate policy making from the production of welfare and other services by introducing market disciplines and competition”
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Designing Evaluations
gao.gov— — “This methodology transfer paper addresses the logic of program evaluation designs. It provides a systematic approach to designing evaluations that takes into account the questions guiding a study, the constraints evaluators face in conducting it, and the information needs of its intended user.”