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作者:Rahman, Shibaab; Teicher, Julian; Cox, Julie Wolfram; Alam, Quamrul
作者单位:University of New South Wales Sydney; Central Queensland University; Monash University
摘要:We situate public sector leaders as actors who deal with competing institutional demands, and examine how public sector leaders can facilitate reform implementation in the face of institutional inertia in a transitional setting, Bangladesh public administration. Based on 32 interviews with current and former Bangladeshi civil servants and local public administration experts supported by secondary analysis of government documents, our evidence shows that public sector leaders operating within m...
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作者:An, Brian Y.; Tang, Shui-Yan
作者单位:University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Southern California
摘要:Most studies in collaborative governance examine system-level or agency-level drivers of the horizontal dimension of collaboration, that is, the specific forms of collaboration among an existing set of actors. Few have examined the vertical dimension, that is, what actors are involved and the scope of collaboration. This study examines the latter issue by studying the implementation of the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), passed in 2014, mandating collaboration among l...
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作者:Loberg, Ida Bring
作者单位:Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet)
摘要:Street-level bureaucrats assess increasing amounts of digital, often text-based, client representations. These representations have been criticized for oversimplification. However, frontline workers have also been known to develop simplified perceptions, or shortcuts, in their work. This study explores frontline workers' assessments of digital client representations using observations of 15 needs assessments and 7 follow-up interviews from the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV). ...
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作者:Blume, Grant H.
作者单位:University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要:This article posits that racialized administrative power is the status quo in the United States and results from a wicked problem broadly construed as institutional racism. Acknowledging a baseline reality of racialized administrative power in the United States allows public administration theory to more directly grapple with the institutional racism that paradoxically may seem too big and complex to empirically study yet simultaneously too important and urgent to ignore. This article offers t...