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  • 1
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    Reinventing the Treasury: Economic Rationalism or an Econocrat’s Fallacy of Control? (1997)
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishers Ltd
    Public administration 75 (1997), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-9299
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science , Economics
    Notes: The 1994 Fundamental Expenditure Review (FER) of the UK Treasury was a radical overhaul of organization that had major implications for the way the Treasury conducts its business. This article examines the origins and implications of FER, paying particular attention to the ‘strategic’ philosophy of controlling public expenditure encapsulated within it. Ostensibly an expression of modern economic rationalism overturning outmoded administrative practices, the FER approach to public spending control might alternatively be interpreted as a manifestation of a recurring ‘econocrat’s fallacy of control’ which aims to remove redundancy, random search mechanisms and external veto points from control systems.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9299.00067
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    An Obituary: Bill Mackenzie 1909—1996 (1997)
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishers Ltd
    Public administration 75 (1997), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-9299
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science , Economics
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9299.00052
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    The Risk Game and the Blame Game (2002)
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Government and opposition 37 (2002), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1477-7053
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1477-7053.00085
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    Bureaucrats at the Mountain Tops: Helping or Hindering Leadership and Democracy? (2001)
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Government and opposition 36 (2001), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1477-7053
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science
    Notes: Book reviewed in this article:B. G. Peters, R. A. W. Rhodes and V. Wright (eds.), Administering the Summit: Administration of the Core Executive in Developed Countries
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1477-7053.00066
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    Looking after Number One? Politicians’Rewards and the Economics of Politics (1992)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Political studies 40 (1992), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-9248
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science
    Notes: The nature and level of rewards to politicians is an important issue in public management. It receives little theoretical attention in academic political science today, although it offers the basis of a Popperian ‘crucial experiment’ for testing the explanatory claims of the rent-seeking rational choice model of politics. This paper discusses the extent to which thecore rent-seeking modelcan explain observed patterns of political rewards. It considers the core model against two modified models (each with two variants), using data from Australia and the UK and a limited number of observations drawn from other countries. The core-rent-seeking rational choice model appears to have poor explanatory power. A familiar overdetermination problem arises in testing the explanatory claims of modified models. Some disaggregation may be needed to refine the approach.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.1992.tb01380.x
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    KEEPING THE CENTRE SMALL: EXPLANATIONS OF AGENCY TYPE (1978)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Political studies 26 (1978), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-9248
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science
    Notes: Abstract. British government‘growth’in the recent past has not been reflected in a growing civil service. Bureaucratic expansion has largely taken place in local authorities and in central non-Departmental bodies. Explaining growth in the second area requires an explanation of why government agencies should be constituted in one form rather than another, and four explanations are considered. They are random theories, theories relating agency type to the administrative fashions current at the time of an agency's creation, managerial theories relating agency type to functional task, and political theories relating agency type to political considerations such as outflanking tactics and political sensitivity. A major theme of the article is that no single explanation appears to be adequate on its own, but rather that a multi-factor explanation is needed.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.1978.tb01518.x
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    Pavlovian Policy Responses to Media Feeding Frenzies? Dangerous Dogs Regulation in Comparative Perspective (2002)
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishers Ltd
    Journal of contingencies and crisis management 10 (2002), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1468-5973
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science
    Notes: The first part of this article, based on a comparative analysis of recent policies on dangerous dogs among a set of Western European states, shows that small-scale events – like one dog-bite – can produce circumstances that confront policy-makers with a type of ‘forced choice‘, given a particular set of political conditions. The second part, based on a more in-depth comparison of German and UK approaches, probes beyond the ‘Pavlovian’ level of political response to dog-bite crises to explore how institutions mediate responses to ‘forced choices’. Dog-bite crises may temporarily remove normal blockages and constraints on policy development, but this article shows how institutions can still shape policy responses in at least three different ways.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.00176
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    Conclusion: Is competency management a passing fad? (2005)
    Oxford, UK; Malden, USA : Blackwell Publishing Ltd/Inc.
    Public administration 83 (2005), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-9299
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science , Economics
    Notes: Is competency management a passing fad; is it a catch-all term to cover diverse national patterns of development or a symptom of wider changes within bureaucracies? As the papers published here suggest, it is more likely to be a passing fad in Europe than the USA. Competency management addresses rather different agendas in different countries and while it does not embrace as diverse a collection of activities as ‘new public management’, there is substantial range in the issues it does address. European experience suggests competency is more likely to be ephemeral and concerned with repackaging rather than bringing something substantially new to personnel management in the upper reaches of civil services. Without taking too rosy a view of US experience, there may be a stronger case for arguing that contemporary competency management approaches there have brought something new to a longer standing debate in public and private management.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0033-3298.2005.00480.x
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    Competency, Bureaucracy, and Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis (2004)
    Oxford, UK and Malden, USA : Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
    Governance 17 (2004), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1468-0491
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science
    Notes: Competency can be considered a central theme in contemporary public service reforms. This article analyzes the development of competency frameworks for senior public servants at the national–government level in three countries (the U.S., the U.K., and Germany). By tracing the development of competency as an idea, it is shown that competency reforms drew selectively on management ideas, and by tracing the nature and time-patterns of competency reform developments in the three countries, it is shown that competency came onto the reform agenda at different times and by various routes rather than by a simple pattern of international policy transfer or business-to-government transfer. It is argued that the adoption of competency frameworks took place at critical junctures for preexisting public service bargains or agreements in each case and that they were shaped by the particularities of institutional context. However, although competency is arguably central to public service reform, it is far from clear that the competency frameworks in these three cases contributed to the declared aims of many contemporary public service reformers.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0952-1895.2004.00248.x
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    Erosion and Variety in Pay for High Public Office (1995)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Governance 8 (1995), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1468-0491
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science
    Notes: Two elements have characterized the rewards for public officials in the past two decades. One is the erosion of pay and perquisites in many democratic countries. The other is a continuing variety of rewards, especially when compared to those in the private sector. Using data from a variety of OECD countries and the European Union, this article investigates alternative explanations for these two elements. The data is adjusted for purchasing power of the different currencies and then related to the relative wealth of the countries. We find that ideas, interests and institutions all have some explanatory power, but that none is sufficient by itself to explain either variety or erosion in pay across the range of countries. The policy implications of these findings, in terms of both “how” and “how much” public officials should be paid, are also examined.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0491.1995.tb00205.x
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