Overdue and Overdrawn: Internal Services, Administrative Debt, and the Government of Canada's Real Property File DOI Creative Commons

J. Tweedie,

Randall Legault,

P.W. Thompson

et al.

Canadian Public Administration, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 67(4), P. 573 - 584

Published: Dec. 1, 2024

Abstract Administrative debt is when successive waves of reform result in an accumulation rusting‐out systems that are not optimized. This occurs the drivers for change prioritize expediency, offering quick fixes rather than a focus on long‐term sustainable re‐design. case federal government's Internal Services and illustrated through look at Real Property function over time. has been routinely discounted priorities budgets set. Resulting capability deficits exposed periodically audits as part higher profile reviews revealing gaps maintenance asset integrity put public‐facing program delivery risk. We make inseparable from how governments deliver external programs. suggest ways to close information contributing this overall administrative debt.

Language: Английский

Reversing Government Reforms: Radical Change or Adaptive Adjustments? DOI
Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid

Public Administration, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 31, 2025

ABSTRACT The novelty of this study is its focus on reversing government reforms, a topic that has received little attention in the literature. It focuses what characterizes reversal processes with respect to their driving forces and results. Empirically, addresses attempts at four administrative reforms Norway period 2021–2024: municipal reform, county police court which were implemented 2015–2020. A main conclusion it turned out be very difficult reverse these except for reform. attempted reversions are better understood terms an adaptive perspective resulting gradual institutional change characterized by agility, incrementalism, rebalancing rather than cyclical pendulum swings between merging splitting organizations. lesson announcing reversion different from implementing them.

Language: Английский

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Values in public management: Privatization and the public–private divide DOI
Sorin Dan, Tom S. Karlsson, David E. Mills

et al.

European Management Journal, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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A realist review to develop a theory of effective front-line management in probation and youth justice DOI
Kevin Wong, Chris Fox,

David Adams-Guppy

et al.

Probation Journal, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 16, 2025

Probation in England and Wales is crisis. Subject to internal external scrutiny, political public expectation, senior probation officers struggle with performance targets, high staff turnover, inexperienced caseload pressures. We undertook a realist review through testing refinement, we derive mid-level theory of effective (front-line) management comprising five interactive components: oversight; clinical supervision; reflective practice; practitioner; self-managing teams. consider how this might be implemented, arguing that governance reset founded on new (NPG) principles can provide supportive conditions. use NPG's service value creation framework test our argue it provides reform address the challenges facing other risk care professions United Kingdom internationally.

Language: Английский

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Overdue and Overdrawn: Internal Services, Administrative Debt, and the Government of Canada's Real Property File DOI Creative Commons

J. Tweedie,

Randall Legault,

P.W. Thompson

et al.

Canadian Public Administration, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 67(4), P. 573 - 584

Published: Dec. 1, 2024

Abstract Administrative debt is when successive waves of reform result in an accumulation rusting‐out systems that are not optimized. This occurs the drivers for change prioritize expediency, offering quick fixes rather than a focus on long‐term sustainable re‐design. case federal government's Internal Services and illustrated through look at Real Property function over time. has been routinely discounted priorities budgets set. Resulting capability deficits exposed periodically audits as part higher profile reviews revealing gaps maintenance asset integrity put public‐facing program delivery risk. We make inseparable from how governments deliver external programs. suggest ways to close information contributing this overall administrative debt.

Language: Английский

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