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January 2012, Volume 32, Issue 1
- 69-74 Great expectations but poor results: financial and social performance of the T oscana Energia merger
by Patricia Bachiller & Giuseppe Grossi - 75-80 New development: Implementing SOA to deliver police performance management and intelligence reporting
by Paul Hunton & Alan Jones & Richard Short
November 2011, Volume 31, Issue 6
- 379-379 Editorial: Provision of public services in troubled times
by Jane Broadbent & Andrew Massey & Michaela Lavender - 380-382 Debate: Hutton, pensions boards and the accounting officer—a new governance framework for UK public sector pensions?
by Nigel Keogh - 383-384 Debate: Public sector productivity: lessons from the Italian financial crisis
by Tommaso Agasisti & Michela Arnaboldi
September 2011, Volume 31, Issue 5
- 303-304 Editorial
by Jean Hartley - 305-308 Debate: Leadership and authority
by Ronald Heifetz - 309-311 Debate: Losing political power. What happens next? Why care?
by Dame Jane Roberts - 311-314 Leadership for commissioning in an era of reform
by Barbara Allen & Elizabeth Wade - 315-322 Public leadership as public-making
by Janet Newman - 323-330 Evaluating public leadership: towards an assessment framework
by Paul 't Hart - 331-338 Learning in the whirlwind: politicians and leadership development
by Jean Hartley - 339-346 Leadership succession and organizational success: when do new chief executives make a difference?
by George A. Boyne & Oliver James & Peter John & Nicolai Petrovsky - 347-354 Leading policing in the 21st century: leadership, democracy, deficits and the new professionalism
by Peter Neyroud QPM - 355-362 Medical leadership in health care systems: from professional authority to organizational leadership
by G. Ross Baker & Jean-Louis Denis - 363-370 Resource scarcity and priority-setting: from management to leadership in the rationing of health care?
by Helen Dickinson & Tim Freeman & Suzanne Robinson & Iestyn Williams - 371-376 New development: Public leadership, public value and the public interest
by Geoff Gallop
July 2011, Volume 31, Issue 4
- 231-231 Editorial: Our podcast; this issue; and the internationalization and privatization of higher education
by Jane Broadbent & Andrew Massey & Michaela Lavender - 232-233 Debate: The end of the guardians?
by Alasdair Roberts - 233-235 Debate: The importance of an integrated understanding of sustainability in guiding accounting practices
by Jeffrey Unerman - 236-238 Debate: Tackling obesity—to ‘nudge’ or to ‘shove’?
by Peter Kopelman - 239-240 Debate: Society, socialism, sociology
by David Walker - 241-248 When is a saving not a saving? The micro-politics of budgets and savings under practice-based commissioning
by Kath Checkland & Anna Coleman & Stephen Harrison - 249-256 Knowing and doing: the value of intelligent application in local government improvement
by Alan Boyd & Adrian Nelson - 257-264 Twenty years of property-led urban regeneration in Ireland: outputs, impacts, implications
by Michelle Norris & Menelaos Gkartzios - 265-270 The Federal Government of Germany's circumspection concerning accrual budgeting and accounting
by Rowan Jones & Klaus Lüder - 271-278 Performance measurement in academic departments: the strategy map approach
by Antonella Cugini & Giovanna Michelon & Silvia Pilonato - 279-286 Third sector commissioning and English local government procurement
by J. Gordon Murray - 287-294 Are public sector procurement models and practices hindering small and medium suppliers?
by Kim Loader - 295-300 New development: Information for localism? Policy sense-making for local governance
by Rob Wilson & James Cornford & Sue Baines & John Mawson
May 2011, Volume 31, Issue 3
- 151-155 Editorial: Good governance in charities— some key issues
by Noel Hyndman & Ray Jones - 155-157 Debate: The marketization of the voluntary sector
by Ian Bruce & Celine Chew - 157-158 Debate: Sustainability reporting: a missing piece of the charity-reporting jigsaw
by John Maddocks - 159-166 Can we argue against it? Performance management and state funding of voluntary organizations in the UK
by Rod Dacombe - 167-174 The hand of government in shaping accounting and reporting in the UK charity sector
by Noel Hyndman & Danielle McMahon - 175-182 Beneficiaries' participation in nonprofit organizations: a theory-based approach
by Lore Wellens & Marc Jegers - 183-192 The role of independent examiners in the accountability of UK charities
by Gareth G. Morgan - 193-200 Valuing volunteer contributions to charities
by Carolyn J. Cordery & Sarah Proctor-Thomson & Karen A Smith - 201-205 New development: Increasing public trust and confidence in charities: on the side of the angels
by Andrew Hind - 207-210 New development: The real value of permanent endowments
by James Brooke Turner - 211-218 Implementing an outcomes approach to public management and accountability in the UK—are we learning the lessons?
by Erica Wimbush - 219-222 Prerequisites for applying accrual accounting in the public sector
by Evelyne Lande & Sébastien Rocher - 223-228 New development: Public sector pay and pensions in Ireland and the financial crisis
by Jim Stewart
March 2011, Volume 31, Issue 2
- 83-83 Editorial
by Jane Broadbent & Andrew Massey & Michaela Lavender - 83-84 Debate: Design, austerity and public services
by Michael Bichard - 85-88 Debate: ‘Want doesn't get’? Public management responses to the recession
by Stephen P. Osborne & Tony Kinder - 89-90 Debate: How mean is Lean really?
by Zoe Radnor - 91-98 The implications of personal budgets for the home care market
by Kate Baxter & Caroline Glendinning & Ian Greener - 99-106 Funder demands for quality management in the non-profit sector: challenges and responses in a non-profit infrastructure network
by Tila Morris & Susan M. Ogden - 107-114 Managing absenteeism in local government
by Fiona Robson & Sharon Mavin - 115-122 Lean and mean in the civil service: the case of processing in HMRC
by Bob Carter & Andy Danford & Debra Howcroft & Helen Richardson & Andrew Smith & Phil Taylor - 123-130 ‘Carry on up the east coast’— a case study in railway franchising
by Sean McCartney & John Stittle - 131-138 Two ships passing in the night? Practice and academia in public management
by Denita Cepiku - 139-143 The preventive services agenda— delivering value for money
by Alison Prowle & Malcolm Prowle - 145-148 Disinvestment in health— the challenges facing general practitioner (GP) commissioners
by Suzanne Robinson & Helen Dickinson & Tim Freeman & Iestyn Williams
January 2011, Volume 31, Issue 1
- 3-3 Thirty years and growing
by Jane Broadbent - 4-6 Innovation in public services: engaging with risk
by Stephen P. Osborne & Louise Brown - 6-7 Chronicle of a death foretold
by David Walker - 7-8 OBR—truth or power?
by William Solesbury - 9-10 Green's efficiency?
by J. Gordon Murray - 10-11 Think tanks, public policy and academia
by Matthew Taylor - 13-26 Governance by numbers: what have we learned over the past 30 years?
by Peter M. Jackson - 27-34 Paradoxes and prospects of ‘public value’
by Colin Talbot - 35-42 Credit unions in Great Britain: recent trends and current prospects
by Donal McKillop & Anne Marie Ward & John O. S. Wilson - 43-50 The quality of interaction between managers and clinicians: a question of trust
by Patrick Brown & Andy Alaszewski & David Pilgrim & Michael Calnan - 51-58 Private finance: bridging the gap for the UK's Dartford and Skye bridges?
by Jean Shaoul & Anne Stafford & Pamela Stapleton - 59-66 Exploring the barriers to lean health care implementation
by Luciano Brandão de Souza & Michael Pidd - 67-70 Behaviour change in action—Smarter Travel Sutton
by Daniel Ratchford & Lee Parker - 71-74 State, markets and society—Big Society joins the fray
by Chris Painter - 75-80 Governance responses to the fiscal crisis—comparative perspectives
by B. Guy Peters
November 2010, Volume 30, Issue 6
- 323-323 Editorial: Thirty years on
by Andrew Gray - 323-325 Debate: Performance auditing—what value? A response to Pat Barrett
by Amyas Morse - 325-326 Debate: The public/ private sector pensions divide
by Nigel Keogh - 326-328 Debate: Research impact or career progression?
by Sally Dibb & Lee Quinn - 328-329 Debate: The challenge of calling charities to account
by Noel Hyndman - 329-330 Debate: The moral of morale
by John Seddon - 331-338 The reorganization addiction in local government: unitary councils for England
by Howard Elcock & John Fenwick & Janice McMillan - 339-346 Privatization, private equity and executive remuneration: privatizing QinetiQ
by Andrew Massey & Gil Shidlo - 347-354 A model or a policy muddle? An evaluation of rail franchising in the UK
by Robert Jupe - 355-362 Financial capability in Ireland and a comparison with the UK
by Nuala O'Donnell & Mary Keeney - 363-370 NHS boards: knowing the ‘what’ but not the ‘how’
by Gianluca Veronesi & Kevin Keasey - 371-378 The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh: a case study on the workings of the Private Finance Initiative
by Margaret Cuthbert & Jim Cuthbert - 379-384 Can government accountability be enhanced with international financial reporting standards?
by Andrés Navarro-Galera & Manuel Pedro Rodríguez-Bolívar
September 2010, Volume 30, Issue 5
- 263-263 Editorial: Universal woes for universities?
by Andrew Gray - 263-265 Debate: Are we all co-producers of research now?
by Sandra Nutley - 265-267 Debate: Debt and disaggregation in council housing finance
by Stewart Smyth - 267-268 Debate: The dangers of fiscal illusion
by Paulo Reis Mourao - 269-270 Debate: Policy-making—other ways to learn?
by Jane Morgan - 271-278 Performance auditing—what value?
by Pat Barrett - 279-284 Developing financial capability among the young through education and asset-based welfare
by Rajiv Prabhakar - 285-292 Skills building for area management: lessons from regional locality management
by Carole Talbot - 293-298 Challenges and enablers to engaging voluntary organizations in public service delivery
by Claire Moxham - 299-304 Private concession contracts for toll roads in Spain: analysis and recommendations
by María de los Ángeles Baeza & José Manuel Vassallo - 305-312 The 3E methodology for developing performance indicators for public sector organizations
by W. B. Liu & Z. L. Cheng & J. Mingers & L. Qi & W. Meng - 313-316 New development: Efficiency savings in the Scottish budget—problems of accounting practice
by Arthur Midwinter - 317-320 New development: The UK coalition government and the future of public sector pensions
by Tony Cutler & Barbara Waine
July 2010, Volume 30, Issue 4
- 199-203 Editorial
by Kevin Orr & Mike Bennett - 204-206 Debate: Do academics know better or merely different?
by David Walker - 207-208 Debate: Increasing the impact of academic research on public policy
by M. J. Kelly - 208-210 Debate: Co-production can contribute to research impact in the social sciences
by Fiona Armstrong & Adrian Alsop - 211-218 Co-production of social research: strategies for engaged scholarship
by Steve Martin - 219-226 Beyond co-production: practice-relevant scholarship as a foundation for delivering impact through powerful ideas
by Elena P. Antonacopoulou - 227-233 Meeting in the middle: joining reflection and action in complex public sector projects
by Michael Duijn & Marc Rijnveld & Merlijn van Hulst - 235-242 Practitioner research: collaboration and knowledge production
by Neil Lunt & Ian Shaw & Christa Fouché - 243-250 Managing sensitive relations in co-produced planning research
by Paul O’Hare & Jon Coaffee & Marian Hawkesworth - 251-256 Analysis of the cash flow of United Kingdom universities
by Stephen Hicks - 257-260 New development: Innovative governance—using the citizen scorecard in China
by Hana Brixi
May 2010, Volume 30, Issue 3
- 135-135 Debate: Productivity versus cuts
by Jaki Meekings Davis - 136-138 Debate: Personalized public services—a new state/citizen contract?
by Catherine Needham - 138-142 New development: Adapting university education for changing expectations of public services leaders and managers—guidance for designing and delivering MPAs
by Francis Coxhead & Janet Grauberg & Paul Joyce & Colin Knox & Tanya Lawes & Andrew Massey - 143-150 Emerging realities of local government reorganization
by Michael Chisholm - 151-158 Exploring the utility of current performance measures for changing roles and practices of ambulance paramedics
by Geoffrey Heath & James Radcliffe - 159-166 Measuring productivity: an approach to measuring quality weighted outputs in social care
by Ann Netten & Julien Forder - 167-174 Efficiency, effectiveness and efficacy: towards a framework for high-performance in healthcare commissioning
by Helen Dickinson & Edward Peck & Joan Durose & Elizabeth Wade - 175-182 Regulation of public--private partnerships: the Danish case
by Ole Helby Petersen - 183-188 Balancing physician workload and patient satisfaction: a dilemma for hospital managers
by Javier Garcia-Lacalle - 189-196 Learning from cost analyses: an illustration from the UK's New Deal for Disabled People (NDDP)
by David Greenberg & Abigail Davis
March 2010, Volume 30, Issue 2
- 79-80 Editorial: Ten years of UK devolution
by Catherine Farrell - 80-81 Debate: Redesigning the devolved states— progress and limitations
by Richard Parry - 82-83 Debate: Devolution in Northern Ireland
by Colin Knox & Paul Carmichael - 84-86 Debate: Problems of quality and logic in the case for devolution
by David Walker - 87-90 New development: The evolution of Welsh devolution
by Jon Shortridge - 91-96 Nationalism, governance and policymaking in Scotland: The Scottish National Party (SNP) in power
by Margaret Arnott & Jenny Ozga - 97-102 The effectiveness of legislative mechanisms for the devolution of powers in the UK: the case of transport devolution to Wales
by Jonathan Bradbury & Ian Stafford - 103-108 Core tensions in Wales's new politics: pluralist trends in a majoritarian system
by Laura McAllister & Adrian Kay - 109-116 Public sector reform in Northern Ireland: policy copying or a distinctive model of public sector modernization?
by Derek Birrell - 117-118 Debate: Community governance as a response to economic crisis
by Alessandro Sancino - 118-119 Debate: 2010—the year to adopt high-speed rail?
by Jim Steer - 121-124 New development: Public service enterprises and consumer-centric management
by Panagiotis Piperopoulos - 125-132 Are Italian healthcare organizations paying too much for their public--private partnerships?
by Veronica Vecchi & Mark Hellowell & Francesco Longo
January 2010, Volume 30, Issue 1
- 3-4 Editorial: Achieving efficiency and effectiveness in challenging times
by Jane Broadbent - 4-6 Debate: Approaches to control—a view from Australia
by Pat Barrett AO - 7-8 Debate: Approaches to control—the poverty of ‘what's hot and what's not’
by Christopher Pollitt - 8-10 Debate: Accountability for outcomes— international lessons
by Erica Wimbush - 10-12 Debate: Questions of scale
by Brendan McCarron - 13-18 Costs, outputs and outcomes in school PFI contracts and the significance of project size
by Istemi Demirag & Iqbal Khadaroo - 19-26 Private sector provision of social housing: an assessment of recent Irish experiments
by Michelle Norris & Dermot Coates - 27-34 Changing reasons for public--private partnerships (PPPs)
by Ronald W. McQuaid & Walter Scherrer - 35-41 The new public management of security: the contracting and managerial state and the private military industry
by Carlos Ortiz - 42-48 Towards a benchmarking paradigm in European water utilities
by R. Cunha Marques & Kristof De Witte - 49-54 Innovation in public--private partnerships (PPPs): the Spanish case of highway concessions
by Thais Rangel & Jesús Galende - 55-62 Utilization-focused performance reporting
by Fritz Sager & Adrian Ritz & Kristina Bussmann - 63-68 Measuring measures: introducing performance measurement in the Dutch health care sector
by Haiko van der Voort & Emiel Kerpershoek - 69-75 Public sector benchmarking and performance improvement: what is the link and can it be improved?
by Sandra Tillema
November 2009, Volume 29, Issue 6
- 331-331 Editorial: Faith in Themes
by Andrew Gray & Jane Broadbent & Michaela Lavender - 331-334 Debate: Institutions and UK fiscal arrangements—time for reform?
by Russell Mellett - 334-335 Research Excellence Framework—some fundamental questions
by Stephen Mungavin & Charles Ferguson
September 2009, Volume 29, Issue 5
- 265-265 Editorial: Crisis! What an opportunity!
by Andrew Gray & Jane Broadbent & Michaela Lavender - 265-267 Debate: Public management in recessions and economic crises. Strategic options and political constraints
by Ilan Vertinsky - 268-272 New development: The future of public service regulation—the professional's perspective
by Rodney Brooke - 273-276 New development: First steps towards an evaluation of the North East Transformation System
by Jonathan Erskine & David J. Hunter & Chris Hicks & Tom McGovern & Eileen Scott & Edward Lugsden & Edward Kunonga & Paula Whitty - 277-284 The crisis in UK banking
by John Goddard & Phil Molyneux & John O. S. Wilson - 285-291 Structural change and public service performance: international lessons?
by Christopher Pollitt - 292-298 Police authorities in England and Wales: board composition and corporate governance
by Christopher Jackson & Ian P. Dewing - 299-306 Scrutinizing local public service provision
by Anna Coleman & Francesca Gains & Alan Boyd & Donna Bradshaw & Carole Johnson - 307-312 Enacting evidence into clinical practice: the case of coronary heart disease
by Gerry McGivern & Andreas Lambrianou & Ewan Ferlie & Martin Cowie - 313-320 Balanced scorecard implementation in an Italian local government organization
by Federica Farneti - 321-328 Connecting for competitiveness: future transport in UK city regions
by Iain Docherty & Jon Shaw & Richard Knowles & Danny Mackinnon
July 2009, Volume 29, Issue 4
- 203-208 Editorial and Debates
by Andrew Gray & Jane Broadbent & Michaela Lavender & Fred Thompson & David Blunkett & Jonathan Aylen - 209-218 Theme: Whole of government accounting— international trends
by Giuseppe Grossi & Susan Newberry & Andreas Bergmann & Daniel Bietenhader & Torbjörn Tagesson & Johan Christiaens & Philippe Van Cauwenberge & Jan Rommel - 219-227 Whole of government accounts developments in the UK: conceptual, technical and timetable issues
by David Heald & George Georgiou - 229-234 Implementation of whole of government reports in Australia
by Ron Day - 235-242 Whole of government accounting in New Zealand: the ownership form of control
by Susan Newberry & Sonja Pont-Newby - 243-250 International experiences in whole of government financial reporting: lesson-drawing for Spain
by Isabel Brusca & Vicente Montesinos - 251-256 Consolidation in the public sector: a cross-country comparison
by Giuseppe Grossi & Francesca Pepe - 257-260 New development: In pursuit of WGA—Research findings from the UK
by Danny Chow & Christopher Humphrey & Jodie Moll - 261-264 New development: Consolidated financial reporting as a stimulus for change in Italian local government
by Giuseppe Grossi
May 2009, Volume 29, Issue 3
- 139-140 Editorial: PMM , the impact of research on practice, and the emerging Research Excellence Framework
by Andrew Gray & Jane Broadbent & Michaela Lavender - 140-142 Debate: History of privatization
by David Parker - 142-143 Debate: Ten years of devolution
by Jon Shortridge - 145-152 High-quality regulation: its popularity, its tools and its future
by Martin Lodge & Kai Wegrich - 153-160 The organizational context and use of routine data for cancer service management
by Dawn Wilkinson & Ewan Ferlie & Rachael Addicott & Mark McCarthy - 161-166 ‘Payment by Results’ in the English NHS: the continuing challenges
by Pauline Allen - 167-174 Effective human resources processes in local government
by Catherine Truss - 175-181 Developing an alert system for local governments in financial crisis
by José Luis Zafra-Gómez & Antonio Manuel López-Hernández & Agustin Hernández-Bastida - 183-190 Accountability of UK charities
by Alpa Dhanani - 191-194 New development: From private office to departmental court
by R. A. W. Rhodes - 195-200 New development: Performance management in a UK police force
by Paul Hunton & Alan Jones & Paul Baker
March 2009, Volume 29, Issue 2
- 79-81 Editorial: Consumerism in public services
by Catherine Needham - 81-83 Debate: Customers versus citizens—does the language matter?
by Pat Barrett - 83-85 Debate: Reforming the governance of the NAO
by David Heald - 87-94 Are all consumers the same? Choice in health, social care and education in England and elsewhere
by Marianna Fotaki - 95-100 Patient choice in the NHS: what is the effect of choice policies on patients and relationships in health economies?
by Ian Greener & Russell Mannion - 101-108 Consumerism and control: evidence from Swedish central government agencies
by Sven Modell & Fredrika Wiesel - 109-116 Are satisfied citizens willing to pay more? Public sector consumerism as equitable social exchange
by Brian K. Collins & Hyun Joon Kim - 117-122 The consumerism of ‘voice’ in Norwegian health policy and its dynamics in the transformation of health services
by Tone Alm Andreassen - 123-130 ‘Citizen-centred’ public services: contestability without consumer-driven competition?
by Steve Martin & Adrian Webb - 131-136 The measurement of turnaround management strategies in local authorities
by Itai Beeri
January 2009, Volume 29, Issue 1
- 3-3 Editorial: New cover, new publisher, same dedication
by Andrew Gray & Jane Broadbent & Michaela Lavender - 3-5 Debate: The future of public administration— Serving beyond the predictable
by Jocelyne Bourgon - 5-7 Debate: Delivering public services: Are we asking the right questions?
by Stephen P. Osborne - 9-10 Debate: We just do not know: Healthcare expenditure trends
by Peter M. Jackson - 11-18 Making widespread use of municipal bonds in Scotland?
by Stephen J. Bailey & Darinka Asenova & John Hood - 19-26 Taking its toll: The private financing of roads in Spain
by Basilio Acerete & Jean Shaoul & Anne Stafford - 27-34 Managing activity and expenditure in the new NHS market
by Russell Mannion & Andrew Street - 35-42 Relationship marketing, relational capital and the future of marketing in public service organizations
by Kate Mclaughlin & Stephen P. Osborne & Celine Chew - 43-50 Public policy dilemma—gender equality mainstreaming in UK policy formulation
by Karen Miller - 51-57 Mentoring as a mechanism for improvement in local government
by Jane Atterton & Nicola Thompson & Terry Carroll