Public administration in the devolved regions of the UK has always been a complex, difficult and often haphazard process, but nowhere have these characteristics been quite as pronounced as in Northern Ireland. The contributions presented here are not intended to present a comprehensive overview of governance in Northern Ireland but rather to pick up on a select number of current key issues that characterise both the operational environment of the public sector in Northern Ireland and the unique and often challenging contemporary policy context. The issue begins with an article by Colin Knox & Seamus McCrory examining how local authorities can play a role in developing policies that respond to the collective citizen need rather than focusing on the traditional community relations model of service delivery. Nat O’Connor too considers service delivery, suggesting that we need to include ‘public value’ in any measurement of policy success. Michelle Rouse in turn examines the gender dimension of the policymaking

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北爱尔兰的当代治理：介绍

英国权力下放地区的公共行政一直是一个复杂、困难且经常是偶然的过程，但这些特征在北爱尔兰最为明显。此处提供的文稿并非旨在全面概述北爱尔兰的治理，而是介绍一些当前的关键问题，这些问题既是北爱尔兰公共部门运营环境的特征，也是当代独特且经常具有挑战性的特征。政策背景。本期始于 Colin Knox 和 Seamus McCrory 的一篇文章，探讨了地方当局如何在制定响应集体公民需求的政策方面发挥作用，而不是关注传统的社区关系服务提供模式。纳特·奥康纳 (Nat O'Connor) 也考虑了服务交付，这表明我们需要将“公共价值”纳入任何衡量政策成功的标准。Michelle Rouse 反过来研究了决策的性别层面