Control over bureaucracy: cultural theory and institutional variety

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Grid-group cultural theory application confirms the known categories of controls over public administration from a different starting point and highlights the types of controls which are left out by other approaches. This approach offers a unique way of identifying differences in control systems over time and space. Moreover, it helps to identify and predict sources of instability and the dynamics of public administration control systems. The approach produces expectation and hypotheses that diverge and contradict the hypotheses drawn from other theoretical frameworks.

Management, Laws, regulations and rules, Bureaucracy, Public administration

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Taking legal rules into consideration: EU asylum policy and regulatory competition

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The extent the legal framework impacts on the emergence and development of competitive processes is studied. Further, case studies of EU asylum policy is used to discuss the spontaneous emergence of competition among rules and the mechanical response of regulators to market forces.

Europe, Government expenditures, Economic policy, European Union

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Framing welfare reform in affluent societies: rendering restructuring more palatable

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This article examines conditions under which welfare reform can be more palatable. The author finds four variables which affect leaders' framing of social policy, which are: extant frames, actors, institutions and policy arena.

United Kingdom, Social aspects, Statistical Data Included, Economic aspects, Welfare reform, Social status, Political science

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