political science

The topic of his main study is the shift from local government to local governance. Across public administration much of the new ...

substantial. The second and third trends are less universally observable but again, in the judgment of Denters and Rose ( 2005 , ...

the ways in which institutions are made and the way that those institutions in turn inXuence actors and their decision-making ha ...

regime. These actors with access to institutional resources in their own right blend their capacities in order to establish a he ...

certainly in a manner not achieved to the same degree elsewhere, Atlanta was able to build for itself a growth dynamic that culm ...

undermines a crucial factor in the original regime concept. As Mossberger and Stoker comment: If regimes are simply coalitions t ...

presented by Kantor, Savitch, and Haddock ( 1997 ) that approaches comparison by describing a number of factors that inXuence th ...

environmental protection, historic preservation, aVordable housing, and linkage funds; and lower-class opportunity expansion reg ...

cause’’ (Stone 1998 b, 15 ), is used to explain coalition building in urban education. The conclusions drawn by Stone are in som ...

the task has been undertaken within several countries, but the challenge remains to provide a global comparative framework in wh ...

Bobbio,L. 2005. Italy: after the storm. Pp. 29 – 46 inComparing Local Governance, ed. B. Denters and L. Rose. Basingstoke: Palgr ...

Lidstrom,A. 1999. The comparative study of local government: a research agenda.Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 1 : 95 – ...

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Other examples are easy toWnd: Gibson, Caldeira, and Baird ( 1998 ) observed that in 1996 , the Irish Supreme Court accepted an ...

of what they prefer to do, tempered by what they think they ought to do, but constrained by what they perceive is feasible to do ...

Attitudinal Model is of lesser importance. In general, however, little progress has been made in determining the relative import ...

acknowledged is the intimate connection between one’s sense of justice in an instant case and one’s general ideological predispo ...

judges believe that similar cases ought to be treated similarly, but determining to which body of law an individual case belongs ...

making conservative decisions. Instead, these orientations inXuence styles of decision-making. ‘‘Activist’’ judges, for instance ...

they agree or disagree with the statement that ‘‘it is just as legitimate to make a decision and thenWnd the precedent as it is ...