对政府的管制:增加还是减少

本文通过考察对英国政府的管制,简要说明在1997年之前的20年间以及布莱尔政府执政的前两年,对政府的管制极大地增加了,集中体现在1999年《政府现代化》白皮书中。然后针对其中存在的问题,提出了“强制性自我管制”的理念,并重点阐述了把相互关系、监督和评论、竞争和随机性运用到对政府的管制中提高管制质量的建议。     

A Lingering Question of Priorities: Athletic Budgets and Academic Performance Revisited1

Many organization theories suggest that divergent goals can hamper an organization's pursuit of its primary mission. An earlier version of this article analyzed the effect of the pursuit of divergent goals on American public schools. This is an update of the original article that adds two years of data to the original study. Using an educational production function, this article assesses the relationships between athletic budgets and various aggregate measures of academic performance. Controlling for various known components of academic performance, athletic budgets have a significant negative relationship with academic performance. Schools that devote a large amount of resources to athletic budgets have lower levels of academic achievement. A focus on athletics seems to institutionalize goals that conflict with the schools’ academic missions.