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This article explores the political control thesis in light of the literature on bureaucratic politics and agency professionalization. It argues that existing studies of political control have been limited by a failure to analyze the impact of organizational factors on policy change. The article tests political‐control and bureaucratic hypotheses through an analysis of changing enforcement priorities at the Federal Trade Commission, The results suggest that the growing role of economists in the agency, rather than congressional oversight or presidential appointments, is critical in explaining the changing antitrust priorities of the Federal Trade Commissio

ISSN:0952-1895    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1993.tb00141.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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The usefulness of a management metaphor derived from the analysis of individual public managers is highly sensitive to the specific environments of the managers. This principle is illustrated by analyzing the descriptive utility of one metaphor ‐ “Management By Groping Along” (MBGA) ‐which has gained some currency in the teaching and the practice of public management in the United States. While management metaphors cannot be subjected to strict scientific tests, their explication in different environ‐ments can display the reach (or the limits) of their explanatory power and, ultimately, their prescriptive value. This argument is developed by describing the metaphor of management by groping along and investigating its usefulness in a specific type of environment ‐ one dominated by remedial law. The article shows that rather restrictive conditions are necessary for MBGA to serve as a useful addition to a manager's repertoire in such an

ISSN:0952-1895    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1993.tb00142.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Through a case study of the Canadian Department of the Environment, the article examines three conceptual issues involved as governments seek to institutionalize sustainable development concepts and practices into the center of executive decision‐making. The conceptual issues examined in the dynamics of moving from sectoral to macro green governance are: the dynamics of transforming a latent policy paradigm into an operational one; the organizational and concrete resource base needed for environment departments to become and remain a central agency in executive government; and the importance of viable policy communities to sustain new paradigms and make them workable in a day‐to‐day sense. Five practical constraints are also examined in the Canadian context: the different types of decisions and varying statutory capacities involved; the volume of decisions; the relationships with other departments; the need to mobilize and manage the green policy community and network; and the problems of analytical and scientific compe

ISSN:0952-1895    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1993.tb00143.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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How do economically successful countries like Germany, Japan and Switzerland differ in their post‐primary education policies? After identifying great variations in the structure and capacity of secondary and higher education sectors, explanations are sought in terms of domestic and inter‐national factors. Switzerland and Japan emerge as polar cases in how political variables ‐ such as centralism‐federalism, parties and bureaucracies ‐ affected choice of vehicles and extent of educational expansion. Party influence is most clearcut in Germany, but varies by sector. Whereas German and Japanese reform agendas changed in the aftermath of occupation experiences, Switzerland went its own way until prospects for European integration induced greater accommodation to the training and credential practices of its

ISSN:0952-1895    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1993.tb00144.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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This article develops an analytical framework designed to examine social policy as a strategic approach to issues of state‐society relations and the problem of governance in Latin America. It argues that in Latin America and particularly Brazil social protection policy flowed from initiating capacity concentrated originally in the state, and specifically in a techno‐bureaucratic elite connected to a strong executive. The policy, however, produced structures wherein initiative capacity was dispersed into a multiple of intermediate points at the nexus between the state and civil society. This in turn led to an immobilized dissipation of initiative cizpacity in this specific policy area which was symptomatic of, and reinforcing to, a generalized immobilism or power implosion that periodically has gripped these sociopolitical formations, producing shifts from formally democratic to authoritarian regimes and vice ve

ISSN:0952-1895    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1993.tb00145.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0952-1895    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1993.tb00146.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Book review in this article:Localism and Centralism in Europe: The Political and Legal Bases of Local Self‐Government. By Edward C. Page.Liberty and Community: Canadian Federalism and the Failure of the Constitution. By Robert C. Vipond.Reluctant Partners: Implementing Federal Policy. By Robert P. Stoker.Affirmative Action at Work: Law, Politics, and Ethics. By Bron Raymond Taylor.Repealing the War Powers Resolution: Restoring the Rule of Law in US Foreign Policy. By Robert F. Turner.Agenda For Excellence: Public Service in America. By Patricia W. Ingraham and Donald F. Kettl, eds.The Budget‐Maximizing Bureaucrat: Appraisals and Evidence. By Andre Blais and Stephane Dion, eds.Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking and Investigations, 1946–1990. By David R. M

ISSN:0952-1895    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1993.tb00147.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY