Netherlands Institute for Government (NIG) http://repub.eur.nl/res/org/9734/ List of Publications en http://repub.eur.nl/static-eur/img/logo.png RePub, Erasmus University Rotterdam http://repub.eur.nl Public Management and Evaluation (Miscellaneous) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10174/ 2007-06-07T00:00:00Z In public management we can observe a continuous search for its own improvement. New arrangements and procedures, often derived from NPM ideas, but also from other PA insights, are put in place with the expectations that public administration as well as its related agencies and networks will function more efficient, effective, transparent, responsive or produce better quality afterwards. A key question, therefore, is whether and when PM reforms and innova-tions ‘work’. Various forms of monitoring and evaluation can help to answer this question. As a matter of fact many public management reforms explicitly include assessment procedures and related feedback mechanisms. However, the PM reforms and their assessment mecha-nisms as such are evaluated far less frequent. This paper aims to explain why this is so and to suggest ways in which such (meta)evaluation can be realized. In doing so, two distinct ‘lo-gics’ of evaluation are identified. The first logic essentially is the rationality of feedback mechanisms (systems theory) that is part of the ‘repertoire’ of much NPM thinking. The other logic is based on social scientific insights in the conditions for and mechanisms of utilization and impact of evaluation processes and results. Meer, F.B.L. van der Welfare regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. Incorporating post-communist countries in a welfare regime typology (Miscellaneous) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/7918/ 2006-04-17T00:00:00Z Fenger, H.J.M. Full of Meaning: Thick Description as Product of Public Administration Research (Miscellaneous) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/7919/ 2006-04-17T00:00:00Z Hulst, M.J. van Determinants of organizational satisfaction in the Dutch Public Sector (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10175/ 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Steijn, A.J. eGovernment development at the local level (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1791/ 2004-11-02T00:00:00Z Session 5: Knowledge society Rotthier, S. Distinctiveness in the Study of Public Management in Europe. A Historical-institutional Analysis of France, Germany and Italy (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1792/ 2004-11-02T00:00:00Z Session 4: Public Management Kickert, W.J.M. Interests, Identity and Political Allegiance in the European Union (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1765/ 2004-10-26T00:00:00Z In this paper, we take up a question, which has a longstanding tradition within the field of European Union (EU) studies: What explains the variation in public support for European integration and/or the European Union? There are two dominant explanations of EU support: the utilitarian self-interest and the national identity perspectives. The former viewpoint stresses that citizens are more likely to support integration, if it results in a net benefit to the national economy or their own pocketbook. The latter perspective highlights the importance of feelings of national identity in shaping support for European integration. Drawing on the concept of (double) allegiance, we argue that there are theoretical reasons to combine the interest- and identity-based perspectives into one single explanatory framework. Support for supra-national institutions depends on the extent to which such institutions allow national political elites to provide security and well-being. The more citizens perceive that integration threatens their (economic, social-psychological and/or socio-economic) security and well-being, the less they are likely to support the EU. We find empirical evidence that interest- and identity-based explanations should indeed not be seen as alternative explanations, but as perspective that capture different sides of the same coin. Netjes, C.E. Kersbergen, C.J. Managing 'mixedness': Understanding the effects of public sector reform in human service organisations (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1766/ 2004-10-26T00:00:00Z Session 4: Public Management Bannink, D.B.D. Heyse, L. Powers behind control: An essay on democracy (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1769/ 2004-10-26T00:00:00Z Session 3: Institutional rearrangement of the public domain Hupe, P.L. European Research Reloaded: Cooperation and Integration among Europeanized States (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1770/ 2004-10-26T00:00:00Z Session 1: Governance in the European Union Holzhacker, R. Haverland, M. The Impact of European Legislation on National Legislation in the Netherlands (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1763/ 2004-10-20T00:00:00Z Session 1: Governance in the European Union Bovens, M. Kutsal, Y. Performance measurement: the mismatch of manifest and latent functions (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1764/ 2004-10-20T00:00:00Z Session 4: Public Management Trommel, W. Brandsen, T. Heffen-Oude Vrielink, M. van Moulijn, M. Politics and Bureaucracy in the European State A Comparative Study into the Changing Relations Between Political and Bureaucratic Institutions (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1740/ 2004-10-19T00:00:00Z Session 1: Governance in the European Union Berg, C. van den Responses to European policies: The impact of the Erasmus programme on national policy-making (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1741/ 2004-10-19T00:00:00Z Session 1: Governance in the European Union Huisman, J. Transposition of EU Directives in Central and Eastern Europe (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1742/ 2004-10-19T00:00:00Z Session 1: Governance in the European Union Toshkov, D.D. EU Policy-Making: The Role of Working Parties in the Council of Ministers (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1743/ 2004-10-19T00:00:00Z Session 1: Governance in the European Union Häge, F.M. Transposition of EU Transport policy directives. Why so much diversity? (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1744/ 2004-10-19T00:00:00Z Session 1: Governance in the European Union Kaeding, M. Evolving Culture in the European Commission? Commission Officials, Cultural Differences, and Networking Behavior. (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1745/ 2004-10-19T00:00:00Z Session 1: Governance in the European Union Suvarierol, S. Tussen Brussel en de Polder De Europeanisering van Politiek en Bestuur in Nederland (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1746/ 2004-10-19T00:00:00Z Session 1: Governance in the European Union Princen, S. Yesilkagit, K. EU policy, domestic interests, and the transposition of directives (Research Paper) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1747/ 2004-10-19T00:00:00Z Session 1: Governance in the European Union Steunenberg, B.