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作者：Licht, Jenny de Fine; Agerberg, Mattias; Esaiasson, Peter
作者单位：University of Gothenburg
摘要：A chronic problem for democratic governments is generating legitimacy for policy decisions that go against substantial groups of citizens' legitimate interests. The primary means of achieving this aim involve the arrangements through which policy decisions are made. Whereas research in the field has tended to focus on the arrangements leading up to a decision, this paper draws attention to developments after a formal policy decision has been made. We theorize that the formal decision constitut...
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作者：Heine, Florian; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; Wang, Tse-Min
作者单位：Tilburg University; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Antwerp; National Taipei University
摘要：Public service-motivated individuals have a greater concern for the delivery of public services and for the societal consequence of collective inaction, seeing themselves play a pivotal role in upholding public goods. Such self-efficacy and perceived importance of public service jointly motivate individuals to commit to sacrificing for the common good. Using an incentivized laboratory experiment with 126 undergraduate and graduate students at a university in the Netherlands, we explore the ass...
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作者：Scott, Tyler A.; Marantz, Nicholas; Ulibarri, Nicola
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：Administrative procedures are intended to increase transparency and help agencies make better decisions. However, these requirements also increase agency workload. Understanding how public agencies satisfy procedural requirements is a critical facet of agency performance. This analysis focuses on the language used in Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) required by the US National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)-specifically, the reuse of similar text within and between assessments. We synth...
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作者：McLaughlin, Danielle M.; Mewhirter, Jack M.; Lubell, Mark
作者单位：University of Arizona; University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：In this article, we bridge and extend concepts from behavioral game theory and the Ecology of Games Theory of Polycentricity (EGT) to test possible mechanisms for conflict contagion across the array of actors and policy forums that constitute a polycentric governance system. We argue that actors who experience conflict in one forum will develop similar strategies in other forums, which then impacts the level of conflict exhibited in within-forum interactions. This behavioral spillover of confl...
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作者：Patz, Ronny; Thorvaldsdottir, Svanhildur; Goetz, Klaus H.
作者单位：Hertie School; Technical University of Munich; University of Munich
摘要：This contribution theorizes on the emergence of affective styles in the accountability reporting of public agencies. Under conditions of multiple accountability towards heterogeneous stakeholders, public agencies are expected to make increased use of sentiment in their reporting. Agencies' differentiated modulation of positive and negative sentiment results in four ideal-typical affective styles: technocratic, political, alarming, and self-praising. The plausibility of this framework is demons...
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作者：Klemsdal, Lars; Andreassen, Tone Alm; Breit, Eric
作者单位：University of Oslo; Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet); BI Norwegian Business School
摘要：Managers of street-level organizations play an important role in the successful implementation of public reforms. A prevailing view within the public administration literature is that this work involves the adaptation between reforms and local contexts, where divergence is viewed as a form of resistance to change. The article challenges this prevalent reform-centric view by introducing a situation-centric perspective and coining the concept of situational work as a significant form of manageri...
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作者：Witesman, Eva M.; Silvia, Chris; Child, Curtis
作者单位：Brigham Young University; Brigham Young University
摘要：What role does sector play in citizens' perceptions of products or services in mixed-market settings? Where governments compete with for-profit and nonprofit vendors, or when governments partner or contract with private-sector providers, do the public and nonprofit sectors have an advantage over for-profit providers? Do the public and nonprofit sectors have an advantage over for-profit providers? Using choice-based conjoint analysis with a nationally representative paid consumer panel, we exam...
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作者：Hibbard, Patrick F.; Amsler, Lisa Blomgren; Jackman, Michael Scott
作者单位：Oregon Social Learning Center; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Studies of representative bureaucracy (RB) argue public organizations reflective of the public they serve exhibit better outcomes, especially when serving underrepresented groups. RB theory attributes improved outcomes either to the actions representative bureaucrats take (active representation), or a greater perception of trust and legitimacy toward them by service recipients (symbolic representation), largely treating active and symbolic representation as separate phenomena. We explore the i...
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作者：Rothbart, Michah W.; Yoon, Nara
作者单位：Syracuse University; James Madison University
摘要：Institutional form is believed to influence organizational behavior and performance in producing collective goods such as healthcare services. Recent efforts in the United States seek to increase healthcare services provided by hospitals, but it is unclear whether and how these organizations respond to the policy changes. In this study, we examine the extent to which nonprofit hospitals change their provision of charity care in response to a regulatory policy specifying a target benchmark aime...
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作者：Koerner, Aeric A. H.; Johnston, Jocelyn M.
作者单位：American University
摘要：This article examines whether and how the capacity of a street-level organization moderates its ability to perform effectively in the context of a public program reform. We use the case of California probation departments during the phased implementation of the state's Low-Income Health Program, a major Medicaid reform that offered critical new services for many probation citizens/clients, namely, mental health and substance abuse treatment. We exploit six years of monthly California county-le...
