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Michael Barzelay - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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theorizing implementation of public management policy reforms a case study of strategic planning and programming in the european commission
Governance, 2009Co-Authors: Michael Barzelay, Anne Sofie JacobsenAbstract:As a measure to rectify the European Commission's “management deficit,” the institution's authorities decided to introduce new forms of commission-wide strategic planning and programming in 2000. Drawing on semistructured interviews with Commission officials, this article tracks the key turning points, trajectories, and outcomes of events within the implementation stage of this part of the Commission managerial reform. As an instrumental case study, the article begins to theorize the process of implementing public management policy change. Major conceptual issues addressed include how reform decisions serve to activate the social mechanism of actor certification and how actor conduct amplifies such certification. Actor certification provides a link from reform choices to organizational change. In this respect and others, the research argument contrasts and integrates social theory mind-sets deriving from institutionalism and social interactionism (Processualism) in line with research trends in historical sociology, organization science, and public management.
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from new institutionalism to institutional Processualism advancing knowledge about public management policy change
Governance, 2006Co-Authors: Michael Barzelay, Raquel GallegoAbstract:Research on public management reform has taken a decidedly disciplinary turn. Since the late 1990s, analytical issues are less often framed in terms of the New Public Management. As part of the disciplinary turn, much recent research on public management reform is highly influenced by the three new institutionalisms. However, these studies have implicitly been challenged by a competing research program on public management reform that is emphatically processual in its theoretical foundations. This article develops the challenge in a more explicit fashion. It provides a theoretical restatement of the competing “institutional processualist” research program and compares its substantive findings with those drawn from the neoinstitutionalisms. The implications of this debate about public management reform for comparative historical analysis and neoinstitutional theories are discussed.
Anne Sofie Jacobsen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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theorizing implementation of public management policy reforms a case study of strategic planning and programming in the european commission
Governance, 2009Co-Authors: Michael Barzelay, Anne Sofie JacobsenAbstract:As a measure to rectify the European Commission's “management deficit,” the institution's authorities decided to introduce new forms of commission-wide strategic planning and programming in 2000. Drawing on semistructured interviews with Commission officials, this article tracks the key turning points, trajectories, and outcomes of events within the implementation stage of this part of the Commission managerial reform. As an instrumental case study, the article begins to theorize the process of implementing public management policy change. Major conceptual issues addressed include how reform decisions serve to activate the social mechanism of actor certification and how actor conduct amplifies such certification. Actor certification provides a link from reform choices to organizational change. In this respect and others, the research argument contrasts and integrates social theory mind-sets deriving from institutionalism and social interactionism (Processualism) in line with research trends in historical sociology, organization science, and public management.
Raquel Gallego - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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from new institutionalism to institutional Processualism advancing knowledge about public management policy change
Governance, 2006Co-Authors: Michael Barzelay, Raquel GallegoAbstract:Research on public management reform has taken a decidedly disciplinary turn. Since the late 1990s, analytical issues are less often framed in terms of the New Public Management. As part of the disciplinary turn, much recent research on public management reform is highly influenced by the three new institutionalisms. However, these studies have implicitly been challenged by a competing research program on public management reform that is emphatically processual in its theoretical foundations. This article develops the challenge in a more explicit fashion. It provides a theoretical restatement of the competing “institutional processualist” research program and compares its substantive findings with those drawn from the neoinstitutionalisms. The implications of this debate about public management reform for comparative historical analysis and neoinstitutional theories are discussed.
H. Stephen Straight - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Processualism in linguistic theory and method
Linguistics and Philosophy, 1993Co-Authors: H. Stephen StraightAbstract:Publisher Summary This chapter reviews Processualism in linguistic theory and method. The importance and tenacity of this structural view of the nature of language can scarcely be exaggerated. Over the years the term language structure has come to include a variety of types and levels of systematic relation between linguistic forms and their meanings, and among subparts of form and also meaning. From the standpoint of ontology, then, the autonomous field of linguistics derives from the assumption that such orderly relations of form and meaning exist. From the standpoint of methodology, this assumption entails the assumption that language structure can be abstracted from language processes and language functions as these interact in actual language use. Now functionalism in recent years has been motivated by recognition that structure without function is sterile. To the extent that they reject structuralism, the functionalists risk rediscovering that Function without structure is blind. Perhaps a renewed unity in the discipline could be achieved by the adoption of what can be called Processualism (cf. Straight, 1986). Instead of defining language as a set of structures-signs, sound/meaning correspondences, recorded utterances, grammatical sentences, or pairings of deep and surface structures- it can be define as a pair of processing mechanisms, one for the interpretation and the other for the creation of linguistic forms, and instead of defining language as a set of functions- referring, narrating, negotiating, explaining- it can be defined as the processes whereby these functions are achieved in acts of saying and construing.
Charles R Cobb - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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what i believe a memoir of Processualism to neohistorical anthropology
Southeastern Archaeology, 2014Co-Authors: Charles R CobbAbstract:In North America, historical anthropology is closely linked with political-economic studies. The materialist and comparative emphases of the political economy approach have had a strong impact on archaeological research in the Southeast and elsewhere. The increasing popularity of idealist positions in some quarters of archaeological theory has led to a waning of traditional political-economic research. However, recent trends in postcolonial theory suggest that a neohistorical anthropology can accommodate both materialist and idealist viewpoints. Current research on warfare in the Southeast exemplifies the advantages of multivariate vantage points for investigating the past.