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作者：Bishu, Sebawit G.; Heckler, Nuri
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver; Harvard University; University of Nebraska System
摘要：Drawing on the literature from critical gender studies and feminist critiques of bureaucracy, we explore the demands for gender work created when women occupy traditionally masculine roles in municipal government management. The article traces the work performed when municipal managers and municipalities respond to gendered demands, maintain gender perceptions, and negotiate gendered expectations, collectively referred to as gender work. To examine this process, we apply inductive qualitative ...
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作者：Mele, Valentina; Belle, Nicola; Cucciniello, Maria
作者单位：Bocconi University; Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna; University of Edinburgh
摘要：Over the last decades, one of the most significant changes in the workplaces of government agencies around the world has been the introduction of telework. The relatively scant public administration research on this innovation and on its semantic or substantive variations such as telecommuting, home-work, remote work, and smart work has examined its effects on teleworkers and only recently on non-teleworkers. However, scholars have overlooked the relational dynamics triggered by telework. This...
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作者：Desmidt, Sebastian; Meyfroodt, Kenn
作者单位：Ghent University
摘要：Does relative performance information (PI) still impact politicians' attitudes when the potential for external blame or credit is limited? And, if not, is the active disclosure of PI about government activities with a low propensity for media attention an effective strategy for increasing the effect of PI? Despite the tendency to progressively disclose PI, empirical evidence on the effectiveness of publicly disclosing PI is almost non-existent. Hence, a survey embedded experiment was developed...
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作者：Muller, Moritz; Braun, Caelesta
作者单位：Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University
摘要：A recently emerging literature demonstrates that reputational concerns explain why regulatory agencies strategically communicate and engage with their manifold audience. We complement this literature by examining the potential of strategic communication as a reputational and regulatory strategy. Based on a reputational approach to public agencies, we assume agencies to strategically diversify between proactively or reactively engaging with public concerns raised by their audiences, depending o...
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作者：Ressler, Robert W.; Paxton, Pamela; Velasco, Kristopher; Pivnick, Lilla; Weiss, Inbar; Eichstaedt, Johannes C.
作者单位：Brandeis University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Stanford University
摘要：Looking to supplement common economic indicators, politicians and policymakers are increasingly interested in how to measure and improve the subjective well-being of communities.Theories about nonprofit organizations suggest that they represent a potential policy-amenable lever to increase community subjective well-being. Using longitudinal cross-lagged panel models with IRS and Twitter data, this study explores whether communities with higher numbers of nonprofits per capita exhibit greater s...
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作者：Kalesnikaite, Vaiva; Neshkova, Milena, I
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport; State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：Prior research identifies problem severity as an important antecedent of collaboration. Yet, little is known about how problem severity shapes collaborative behavior of public organizations beyond the initial decision to engage in such action. This study adds to the theory of collaboration by linking problem severity to the stage of collaborative activity and partner selection. We empirically test the validity of these linkages in the context of US local governments and examine how they respon...
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作者：Baekgaard, Martin; Mikkelsen, Kim Sass; Madsen, Jonas Krogh; Christensen, Julian
作者单位：Aarhus University; Roskilde University
摘要：State actions impact the lives of citizens in general and government benefit recipients in particular. However, little is known about whether experiences of psychological costs among benefit recipients can be relieved by reducing compliance demands in interactions with the state. Across three studies, we provide evidence that reducing demands causes relief. In a survey experiment, we show that psychological costs experienced by Danish unemployment insurance recipients change in response to inf...
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作者：Bolton, Alexander; de Figueiredo, John M.; Lewis, David E.
作者单位：Emory University; Duke University; Vanderbilt University
摘要：A defining feature of public sector employment in the United States is the regular change in elected leadership. We describe how these changes alter policy and disrupt civil servants' influence over agency decisions, potentially shaping their career choices. Using data on careers from over three million federal employees in the United States from 1988 to 2011, we evaluate how administration changes influence turnover in a series of regression analyses. We find substantial stability in the civi...
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作者：Deslatte, Aaron; Swann, William L.; Feiock, Richard C.
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Children's Hospital Colorado; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：A normative assumption of government reform efforts such as New Public Management is that fostering a more innovative, proactive, and risk-taking organizational culture-developing what has been described as an entrepreneurial orientation (EO)-improves performance. But in arenas like urban sustainability, performance can be an ambiguous, multifaceted concept. Managers' assessments of their own nimbleness, innovative thinking, and risk culture are also likely to influence how they interpret the ...
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作者：Lavee, Einat
作者单位：University of Haifa
摘要：Street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) nowadays provide services under conditions of increased demand for public services coupled with scarcer financial resources. The literature that focuses on how workers adapt to this situation mainly examines their provision of formal resources as part of their job. What researchers have not systematically examined is the delivery of informal personal resources (IFRs) by street-level workers to clients. Understanding the provision of IFRs is particularly importan...
