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作者：Benish, Avishai; Tarshish, Noam; Holler, Roni; Gal, John
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; University of Haifa
摘要：This article contributes to the growing body of research on administrative burdens by providing a theoretically and empirically driven typology of governments' burden reduction strategies. Despite the mounting interest in burden reduction, the literature still lacks a typology for systematically identifying and classifying such strategies. The article identifies three analytical dimensions of burden reduction: distributive (who bears the burden), intensiveness (what the level of burden is), an...
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作者：Smith, Natalie L.; Yackee, Susan Webb
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：The US bureaucracy routinely issues major public policy decisions that affect Americans' lives. Government agency leaders make those decisions based on a subjective understanding of their agency's available policy discretion. Over time, discretion has become a prominent theoretical construct in the bureaucratic politics and public administration literature, but it is rarely measured directly. In this article, we create a new measure of agency policy discretion. We draw on research suggesting t...
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作者：Lee, Heewon; Liu, Yixin
作者单位：University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; Syracuse University
摘要：This study examines the effectiveness of collaborative platforms in supporting local collaborations for natural resource management. It also explores how governmental and non-governmental lead organizations adopt differing collaborative implementation approaches and how these variations influence outcomes. Utilizing a natural experiment and a difference-in-differences estimator, we evaluate if the Department of Energy's Clean Cities program functions as a collaborative platform to foster local...
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作者：Pircher Verdorfer, Armin; van Ginkel, Gerco
作者单位：University of Amsterdam
摘要：This study aims to investigate the impact of organizational change in a public sector high-reliability context. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, our theoretical model posits that change can be stressful and cause negative affective reactions toward the change, which undermine adjustment and post-change functioning. A quantitative case study was carried out on a Dutch air force squadron undergoing a significant organizational change, including the collection of three waves of survey...
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作者：Bell, Elizabeth; Wright II, James E.; Oh, Jeongmin
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; State University System of Florida; Florida State University; Arkansas State University
摘要：Public trust and civic predisposition are cornerstones of well-functioning democratic societies, and burdensome citizen-state encounters may undermine positive views of government, especially for racially minoritized clientele. Leveraging insights from policy feedback theory, we argue that administrative burden has the potential to undermine trust in government and civic predisposition through two mechanisms: (1) interpretive effects: burdensome experiences that induce negative emotional respo...
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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：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：Rackwitz, Maike; Raffer, Christian
作者单位：Hertie School
摘要：Why do local governments create and reform public service companies, given their uncertain economic benefits and potential damage to accountability and service transparency? Taking an extended transaction cost perspective, we argue that corporatization-the provision of public services by publicly owned companies-is a function of fiscal hardship, the decision maker's economic orientation and the level of operator transparency. Using a two-way fixed effects regression, we test this expectation o...
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作者：Davis, Jill A.; Hassan, Shahidul
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：While many public organizations have made notable strides to improve the representation of women at all ranks, women remain severely underrepresented in law enforcement organizations. Research shows that a critical barrier to women's integration into law enforcement is the common perception among policemen that women are unsuited for police work. This study draws on Social Dominance Theory (SDT) to illuminate the values and beliefs underlying policemen's negative perceptions. Using multi-wave ...
