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3 Organizational design Articles
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Delegating to the Quango: Ex Ante and Ex Post Ministerial Constraints
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“This article examines delegation in the environment of quasi-governmental, special purpose bodies. Theoretical predictions are examined with data from a study of Dutch public bodies as well as issue scales from the Manifesto Research Group. Multinomial logit statistical models…”
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Cross-National Transfer of Policy Ideas: Agencification in Britain and Japan
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“In addition to confirming the crucial role played by domestic structural constraints…this article also shows that the transfer of policy ideas can be a highly proactive political process in which…the learning country interpret and define both problems and solution as they “borrow”...”
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What is public service improvement?
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“Five conceptual models of public service improvement are derived from the large literature…: goal, systems-resource, internal process, competing values and multiple constituency models. The strengths and weaknesses of each… is evaluated and a working definition of improvement is proposed.”