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作者：Boushey, Graeme T.; McGrath, Robert J.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; George Mason University
摘要：This paper explores the speed of rulemaking in American state governments. Drawing on a unique data set of over 250,000 individual rules issued by states from 1993 through 2009, we introduce new measures of the speed and breadth of rulemaking in American state bureaucracies, providing a new way of evaluating the incidence of rulemaking delay within and across governments. We focus specifically on how professionalism and oversight powers of state legislative and executive branches affect rulema...
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作者：Esteve, Marc; Garrido-Rodriguez, Juan Carlos; Moore, Alice; Schuster, Christian; Gomez, Jose Luis Zafra
作者单位：University of London; University College London; Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE); University of Granada; University of Birmingham
摘要：How does contracting out affect service performance? Evidence to date is mixed. We argue that this is partially due to prior studies focusing often on whether-not how-services are contracted. Yet, how services are contracted matters. In particular, we argue that whether users pay user fees for services to contractors affects efficiency. Where they do, contractor revenue depends on user satisfaction and contractors face incentives to provide quality services to users to retain revenue. Where, b...
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作者：Boyer, Eric J.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas El Paso
摘要：While prior research has long identified the centrality of critical supply acquisition to the government's response to a crisis, there is less understanding of how to secure critical supplies that depend on global supply chains. The acquisition of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the immediate aftermath of the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak (COVID-19) proved challenging not only due to threats of contractor deception but also due to disruptions in contractor supply chains. This resear...
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作者：Roberts, Michael; Milman, Anita
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
摘要：Coordination mandates are used to steer collective action between local government agencies. When higher levels of government allow agencies to choose how to work together, the organizational forms and institutional arrangements they adopt likely influences their ability to achieve mandated coordinated outcomes. How group-level interactions influence achievement of coordinated outcomes is not well understood. California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) provides opportunity to sh...
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作者：Lasky-Fink, Jessica; Linos, Elizabeth
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：Many low-income households in the United States miss out on social safety net benefits because of the information, compliance, and psychological costs associated with take-up of government assistance. Yet, the empirical evidence on the impact of learning and psychological costs on take-up, and how to reduce them, is mixed. Leaning on an administrative burden framework, this article measures the role of reducing learning costs and stigma on demand for rental assistance in two field experiments ...
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作者：Halling, Aske; Baekgaard, Martin
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：Based on a systematic review of 119 articles and working papers, we provide an overview of how administrative burdens in citizen-state interactions have been studied since the inception of the research agenda in 2012. We develop a new and comprehensive model of how key concepts in the framework are related, assess the evidence of the causal relationships proposed by the model, and discuss where more evidence is needed. Empirical research supports conventional claims that burdens are consequent...
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作者：Zuber, Katie; Strach, Patricia; Perez-Chiques, Elizabeth
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：Administrative burden research disproportionately examines micro-level burdens on clients claiming benefits from public agencies. Yet we know little about meso-level burdens on third-party providers making up the submerged state-private actors working on behalf of a public purpose-and what effect these burdens have on services. We draw on interviews, participant observation, and focus groups with substance-use disorder service providers to map provider burdens and how they affect services that...
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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：Zarychta, Alan; Benedum, Michelle E.; Sanchez, Emily; Andersson, Krister P.
作者单位：University of Chicago; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Harvard University; University of Notre Dame
摘要：Decentralization reform has both advantages and risks. Bringing service delivery closer to the people can improve information flows and strengthen accountability, but it may also leave systems vulnerable to elite capture and corruption by municipal government officials. While past research has acknowledged the possibility of corruption under decentralization, relatively little work has connected those risks to features of these reforms or specific local institutional arrangements. To explore t...
