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作者:Bertelli, Anthony M.; Hassan, Mai; Honig, Dan; Rogger, Daniel; Williams, Martin J.
作者单位:Bocconi University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Johns Hopkins University; The World Bank; University of Oxford
摘要:Developing nations demand a different scholarly approach in the field of public administration. We advance an agenda for research that stands on four pillars. First, in the absence of easily accessible data scholars of developing world public administration must assemble it for themselves. Second, building and testing theory plays a paramount role because researchers face limited information. Third, in developing countries, multi-national and non-governmental organizations are often crucial an...
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作者:Williams, Martin J.; Yecalo-Tecle, Liah
作者单位:University of Oxford
摘要:Research on innovation in government often focuses on ideas introduced by senior leaders or managers, but ideas from public servants themselves are an important and underexplored channel for improving performance in government bureaucracies. We provide new evidence on the potential for bottom-up work process innovation, using data from 744 individual and team innovation plans and 51 qualitative interviews in Ghana's civil service. In contrast to common negative stereotypes of developing countr...
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作者:Choi, Hemin
作者单位:Seoul National University (SNU)
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作者:Alter, Karen J.
作者单位:Northwestern University
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作者:Honig, Dan
作者单位:Johns Hopkins University
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作者:Linos, Elizabeth
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Berkeley
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作者:Honig, Dan
作者单位:Johns Hopkins University
摘要:Using data on World Bank staff identity and field placement, this article examines the relationship between staff presence in recipient countries and aid project performance. I find that merely placing World Bank staff in developing countries has little effect on the success of development projects. Greater field decision rights are, however, associated with differential project performance. In the most fragile states, the presence of senior personnel (World Bank Country Directors) is associat...
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作者:Zahariadis, Nikolaos
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作者:Lapuente, Victor; Van de Walle, Steven
作者单位:University of Gothenburg; Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE)
摘要:Have New Public Management (NPM) reforms in public organizations improved the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of the delivery of public policies? NPM reforms, understood as a style of organizing public services towards the efficiency and efficacy of outputs, have been controversial. They have been accused of importing practices and norms from the private sector that could collide with core public values, such as impartiality or equity. Yet, with few exceptions, we lack systematic empiric...
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作者:Allain, Mathilde; Madariaga, Aldo
作者单位:Universidad Mayor
摘要:Chile is a country where path dependency made energy policy change extremely difficult by international standards. However, the country has recently become a renewable energy poster child thanks to a gradual process of policy change. How was this possible? This article contributes to discussions about policy change driven by ideas and to explaining the puzzling case of Chilean energy policy change. It does so by discussing the mechanism of bricolage-the recombination of old and new ideas by po...