Accountability in the Regulatory State
in The Oxford Handbook of Regulation
September 2010; published online September 2010.
Article. Subjects: business and management; public management. 8961 words.
Accountability in regulation will never reach a state of ‘perfection’ and stability, but will remain, given competing values and shifting priorities, in a state of continued tension and fluidity. In...
The Active Role of Context
in Knowledge to Action?
May 2005; published online September 2007.
Chapter. Subjects: public management. 9215 words.
This chapter argues that a more sophisticated and active notion of context is needed than displayed in existing literature if we are to understand adequately the implementation gap. A number of...
Addressing Undernutrition in India
in Paradoxes of Modernization
June 2010; published online September 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: public management. 7512 words.
The estimated number of undernourished people around the world has increased to nearly 923 million and is projected to rise with increasing food prices. A large majority of those affected live in...
Administrative Costs of State Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Systems
in The Future of Public Employee Retirement Systems
August 2009; published online February 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: public management. 3110 words.
This chapter compares the administrative costs of public sector defined benefit and defined contribution systems offered by the federal government and many states. Administrative expenses are...
Afterword
in The Oxford Handbook of Public Management
June 2007; published online September 2009.
Article. Subjects: business and management; public management. 3814 words.
The Afterword provides some final thoughts, which it states will not remain final. It is more realistic to explore in very general terms what this mass of material tells us about the current...
American Science, Academic Organization, and Interdisciplinary Research
in International Research Management
December 1990; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: public management. 3199 words.
Teaching roles have been the dominant features in the organizational hierarchy and character of universities for the past three millennia, considering the transformations proposed to and experienced...
The Auditor’s Craft: Jeremy Lonsdale, Robert Mul, and Christopher Pollitt
in Performance or Compliance?
September 1999; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: public management. 9494 words.
This chapter examines the nature of the work of performance auditors and discusses how their identities and the content of their work are changing. It describes the possible roles in various fields...
Authority Relations as Condition for, and Outcome of, Shifts in Governance
in Reconfiguring Knowledge Production
July 2010; published online September 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: public management. 10793 words.
The UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) is a periodic nationwide exercise that assesses the research performance of any university in the UK that opts to put itself forward, and a prime example of...
Benefit Cost Comparisons Between State and Local Governments and Private Industry Employers
in The Future of Public Employee Retirement Systems
August 2009; published online February 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: public management. 3154 words.
It is often argued that compensation patterns for public sector employees are higher than in the private sector. This chapter examines some of the reasons for the observed differences in total...
Between Scylla and Charybdis: Improving the Cost Effectiveness of Public Pension Retirement Plans
in The Future of Public Employee Retirement Systems
August 2009; published online February 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: public management. 8120 words.
Unless defined benefit pension plans are managed much better and more cost-effectively, they will be replaced by defined contribution plans. Benefit and contribution policies need to be carefully...