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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：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：Guul, Thorbjorn Sejr; Hvidman, Ulrik; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik
作者单位：Aarhus University; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Bristol
摘要：Quasi-markets that introduce choice and competition between public service providers are intended to improve quality and efficiency. This article demonstrates that quasi-market competition may also affect the distribution of users. First, we develop a simple theoretical framework that distinguishes between user sorting and cream-skimming as mechanisms through which quasi-markets may lead to high-ability users becoming more concentrated among one group of providers and low-ability users among a...
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作者：Beaton, Erynn E.; LePere-Schloop, Megan; Smith, Rebecca
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Research suggests powerful resource dependencies are present in the public and nonprofit sectors. The individuals operating at the nexus between organizations and resource providers, and who mitigate dependencies, are referred to as boundary spanners. Research suggests that there may be both positive and negative personal repercussions for boundary spanners, but research has not sufficiently examined these unintended consequences through a gender lens. Bringing together research on resource de...
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作者：Nederhand, Jose
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：The topic of government-nonprofit collaboration continues to be much-discussed in the literature. However, there has been little consensus on whether and how collaborating with government is beneficial for the performance of community-based nonprofits.This article examines three dominant theoretical interpretations of the relationship between collaboration and performance: collaboration is necessary for the performance of nonprofits; the absence of collaboration is necessary for the performanc...
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作者：Capers, K. Juree; Smith, Candis W.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Representative bureaucracy scholars contend that clients are likely to experience greater benefits and more positive policy outcomes from public agencies when bureaucrats share salient demographic characteristics. Despite the large body of evidence that shows a link between passive and active representation, much of the extant representative bureaucracy literature rests on an assumption of group homogeneity. However, racial groups have a great deal of heterogeneity among them, particularly due...
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作者：Erlich, Aaron; Berliner, Daniel; Palmer-Rubin, Brian; Bagozzi, Benjamin E.
作者单位：McGill University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Marquette University; University of Delaware
摘要：How does media attention shape bureaucratic behavior?We answer this question using novel data from the Mexican federal government. We first develop a new indicator for periods of anomalously heightened media attention, based on 150,000 news articles pertaining to 22 Mexican government ministries and agencies, and qualitatively categorize their themes. We then evaluate government responsiveness using administrative data on roughly 500,000 requests for government information over a 10-year perio...
