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作者：Wang, Jie; Ulibarri, Nicola; Scott, Tyler A.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Government agencies practice interagency consultation to ensure that broader governmental activities align with their missions and objectives. Consultation allows agencies not only to express their preferences and interests, but also may create administrative burden and procedural delay. To explore the conditions under which agencies choose to review activities proposed by fellow government actors, this research focuses on the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), California's environme...
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作者：van der Voet, Joris; Lerusse, Amandine
作者单位：Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University
摘要：Issue prioritization is the first stage of attention-based theories of decision-making, but remains theoretically and empirically uncharted territory in public administration research. We propose and test how issue prioritization is informed by the characteristics of the performance information on which decision-makers rely, in particular its source (internal or external information), nature (objective or subjective information), aspiration level (historical, social, or coercive aspirations), ...
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作者：Li, Danyao
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：Representative bureaucracy theory examines how bureaucrats' demographics impact outcomes for clients with shared identities, with critical mass posited as an enabling condition. Yet empirical evidence is mixed regarding where this threshold stands. To reconcile these inconsistencies, this study emphasizes the need to first clarify the mechanisms that underpin critical mass requirements. Specifically, I attend to how majority behavior changes due to enhanced representation and evaluate correspo...
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作者：Patty, John W.
作者单位：Emory University
摘要：Much of policy-making involves prioritization-deciding not only what to do but also when-and uncertainty-not knowing exactly how the choices made will affect actual policy outcomes. I present a theory of dynamic prioritization within a hierarchical organization. The model illustrates how notions such as an agency's performance, mission, and critical tasks are linked with details such as institutional structure and the preferences of both front-line bureaucrats and their overseers. The theory h...
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作者：Vantaggiato, Francesca P.; Murdoch, Zuzana; Kassim, Hussein; Geys, Benny; Connolly, Sara
作者单位：University of London; King's College London; University of Bergen; University of Warwick; BI Norwegian Business School; University of Leicester
摘要：Programs to encourage staff to move within public-sector organizations have become increasingly widespread in recent decades. Yet, although there are some anecdotal accounts, the effects of such intraorganizational mobility remain largely unexplored. Building on insights from organization theory and social psychology, we argue that intraorganizational mobility entails an important trade-off: it undermines movers' depth of work-related contacts within the (new) department, while it increases th...
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作者：Wiechman, Adam; Alonso Vicario, Sara; Koebele, Elizabeth A.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Reno; Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Reno
摘要：In complex, polycentric environmental governance systems, actors may choose to collaborate with one another to reduce their collective vulnerability and enhance system function. However, collaboration can be costly, and little evidence exists for how particular collaborative forums impact the broader governance system in which they are embedded. To address this gap, we investigate the role of intermediate collaborative forums, which support collaboration among a subset of system actors, in pol...
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作者：Visser, E. Lianne; van Hulst, Merlijn
作者单位：Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University; Tilburg University
摘要：Deliberation is ubiquitous in street-level work. Scholars and practitioners increasingly promote it, as it has the potential to improve existing practices and procedures and provide customized, yet consistent, services. Little is known, however, about the situated performance of deliberation in street-level work. Drawing on Routine Dynamics Theory and based on an ethnographic study of street-level decision-making in child and family services in the Netherlands (including document analysis, sim...
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作者：Chen, Benjamin Minhao; Libgober, Brian
作者单位：University of Hong Kong; Northwestern University
摘要：This article uses survey experiments to assess whether administrative procedures fix cognitive bias. We focus on two procedural requirements: qualitative reason-giving and quantitative cost-benefit analysis (CBA). Both requirements are now firmly entrenched in the U.S. federal regulation-making. Multilateral organizations such as the World Bank, OECD, and EU have encouraged their broad diffusion across many national contexts. Yet CBA, in particular, remains controversial. Supporters of CBA cla...
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作者：Eckhard, Steffen; Friedrich, Laurin
作者单位：Zeppelin University; University of Konstanz; University of Duisburg Essen
摘要：Spoken administrative language is a critical element in the relationship between citizens and the state, especially when it comes to face-to-face interactions between officials and citizens during the delivery of public services. But preceding work offers little insights into the verbal features of street-level bureaucracy. Drawing on communication studies, we argue that administrative language differs along both a relational and an informational linguistic component. To test the consequential...
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作者：Lemaire, Robin H.; Mckeague, Lauren K.; Sedgwick, Donna
作者单位：Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University; University of Montana System; University of Montana; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要：The flexibility/stability tension is a key challenge for purpose-oriented networks, especially salient with network participation. Because of the voluntary nature of networks, it is common for network participation to fluctuate, with participants entering, leaving, and returning over time for a variety of reasons. This fluctuation may challenge the stability that is key to network effectiveness. Yet, despite the salience of this tension, we know little about managing the ebb and flow of networ...
