All Outputs (7)

Assessing strategic policy transfer in Romanian Public Management (2017)
Journal Article

The notion of strategic policy transfer builds upon existing accounts of policy transfer that assume selectivity in terms of what governments choose to learn from abroad. This article analyses the case of public administration in Romania, which, at f... Read More about Assessing strategic policy transfer in Romanian Public Management.

Leadership and elite interviews: Researching the challenges of EU rail integration in a Single European Rail Area (2016)
Journal Article

The focus of this article is a critical evaluation of constructivist-grounded theory in elite interviews, the methodology used for this research. The research is about the challenges of the EU rail industry integration as seen and told by the involve... Read More about Leadership and elite interviews: Researching the challenges of EU rail integration in a Single European Rail Area.

From London to Beijing: Training and Development as an Agent of Policy Learning in Public Management (2012)
Journal Article

The education and training of international public managers is a powerful mechanism for policy learning and transfer. In a way similar to the globalization of MBA studies, which has contributed to the international diffusion of Western derived manage... Read More about From London to Beijing: Training and Development as an Agent of Policy Learning in Public Management.

Governance and the management of networks in the public sector: Drugs policy in the United Kingdom and the case of cannabis reclassification (2006)
Journal Article

This essay utilizes policy network analysis to examine UK drugs policy within the wider context of the government's approach to joined-up governance. While confronting the definitional problems and limitations associated with the policy network conce... Read More about Governance and the management of networks in the public sector: Drugs policy in the United Kingdom and the case of cannabis reclassification.

Organisational learning in a political environment: Improving policy-making in UK government (2004)
Journal Article

This article observes that the political environment will always compromise the application of the organisational learning concept in government. In an attempt to overcome this problem, it seeks to demonstrate that a conceptual synthesis between poli... Read More about Organisational learning in a political environment: Improving policy-making in UK government.

Convergence and transfer: A review of the globalisation of new public management (1998)
Journal Article

There is much talk about a new global paradigm in public administration. However, many claims surrounding the existence of this new paradigm remain largely unsubstantiated. This article reviews some of these claims by attempting to explain how new pu... Read More about Convergence and transfer: A review of the globalisation of new public management.

Privatisation through contracting: The view from local government in the United States (1994)
Journal Article