External Pressures and Internal Dynamics in the Institutionalization of Performance-Based Budgeting: An Endless Process?

The well-known practice of performance-based budgeting (PBB) is a relevant component of the New Public Management (NPM) reform agenda and has become widespread, with varying approaches and results across countries. However, its variation within specific countries has remained largely unexplored. This study analyzes three organizations operating within the same context—three ministries in Italy—to contribute to a new understanding of PBB variation by illustrating why the same PBB practice can or cannot be implemented and internalized similarly across these organizations and thus become (or not) fully institutionalized. The study adopts and enriches the institutional approach by extending beyond isomorphic convergence toward PBB and explaining practice variation, linking the interactions between external pressures and internal dynamics at the organizational level to PBB institutionalization. The empirical analysis shows how a lack of alignment between external pressures and internal dynamics contributes to an unfinished and apparently endless process of institutionalization.     

Local Government and Local Governance: 1944–2011

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Since the establishment of the tri-partite system of state education after the Second World War, the once simple relationships between central government and local government and the individual school have become increasingly complex. This article considers the key governance issues for schools and colleges in England and how they have been affected by the redistribution of power between central government and local government. The principal foci are the main legislative changes and the impact they have had on the respective powers and responsibilities of central government, local government and schools and colleges. The radical developments since the formation of the coalition government in May 2010 have accelerated the shift of power to central government from local government and by the end of the first term of the coalition the local authority will have little more than a vestigial role in the provision of secondary education and a diminishing role in primary and special education. As academy status becomes the norm (as it already is for secondary schools in some authorities) central government will be dealing directly with autonomous schools and academy chains. With more schools directly employing staff and with funding levels set nationally, the pattern and nature of public education will have been irrevocably changed.     

Unusual and Fatal Case of an Undiagnosed Intravascular Large B-cell Lymphoma: The Oncologist’s Great Imitator†

Intravascular lymphoma (IVL) is a rare subtype of extranodal lymphomas that is characterized by the selective growth of neoplastic cells within the lumen of small vessels. Authors document the case of an unexpected death caused by an undiagnosed intravascular large B-cell lymphoma with multi-organ involvement, which had initially manifested as an infection and then as an unclarified central nervous system pathology. Histological examination showed a diffuse intravascular large B-cell brain lymphoma with prominent cerebral involvement. The relevance of the case report reveals the importance of an autopsy of an extremely rare and threatening pathology that in most cases is diagnosed only postmortem. As a result, the role of the forensic pathologist becomes particularly important. When specifically performing an in-depth autopsy evaluation with a specific histologic analysis, it is possible to identify the intravascular lymphoma and declare a more accurate cause of death.     

What are we gonna be when we grow up? SYRIZA's institutionalisation and its new “governing party” role

The aim of this paper is to analyse the organizational model of one of the most successful European radical left parties, the Greek Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA). Our goal is to analyse SYRIZA's organizational transition from the electoral arena to the government (2015). Our main finding is that SYRIZA started as a socially-oriented organization led by an oligarchic dominant coalition and converted itself into a political party, characterized by a prevailing role of the party in public office/party government. Both the institutional environment and the party organization's first configuration have had an impact on this change.     

我国中央和地方政府间协调关系的思考

一国各级政府之间的关系处理是国家行政管理的重要影响因素。中央、地方政府间在财政经济以及权限划分既定的前提下 ,如何协调好关系就成为微观操作层面的具体问题。新的协调关系是针对我国各级政府间关系现状及问题的几点符合新时代背景的具有建设性的对策。     

新一代中央领导集体对党建理论的重大贡献

新一代中央领导集体自十六大以来对党建理论作出重大贡献,提出科学发展观重大战略思想、加强党的执政能力建设重大战略任务、加强党的先进性建设重大命题、党的建设新布局和一系列加强思想、组织、作风建设、制度和反腐倡廉建设的新论断,并形成比较完整的体系,是新形势下以改革创新精神加强党的建设的理论基础和行动指南。     

以“三个代表”为指针 加强中心城区党建工作

加强中心城区党建工作必须以"三个代表”的思想为指针,紧密结合城区党建工作的实际情况,调查研究,总结经验,找出薄弱环节,查找深层次原因,切实解决存在的问题,探索并建立中心城区党建工作的新思路和新机制.     

浅析延边中心城市优先突破战略

中心城市突破是实施延边州经济跨越式发展战略和实现延边“兴边富民行动”的客观要求。延边中心城市现代化战略目标的顺利完成必须从延边实际出发,制定并组织实施与延边经济社会发展全局有关的一些重大的发展战略。     

三代中央领导集体对台政策纵论

中国共产党三代中央领导集体的对台政策是解决台湾问题,完成祖国统一大业的理论指南。从２０世纪５０年代中期“和平解放台湾”政策的制定,到８０年代以来“和平统一、一国两制”方针的形成,再到９０年代中期八项对台主张的提出,体现了三代中央领导集体以国家和民族利益为重的宽阔胸襟,是中国共产党人在祖国统一问题上顺应历史和时代潮流的明智选择,其中蕴含了三代中央领导集体高度的政治智慧。     

深化党校改革 促进党校发展——中共延边州委党校暨各县(市)委党校关于贯彻落实全国全省党校工作会议精神情况综述

《中共中央关于面向21世纪加强和改进党校工作的决定》是党校深化改革,不断发展的强大动力,必须认真贯彻落实。