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作者：Alon-Barkat, Saar
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作者：Gravier, Magali; Roth, Camille
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School
摘要：This article analyzes the evolution of the staff composition of the European Commission from 1980 to 2013 using the theory of representative bureaucracy. The article first demonstrates how the Commission formulates guidelines which aim at offering fair levels of representation to each member state. However, comparing recruitment targets and actual staffing figures reveals very heterogeneous staff levels. Some member states enjoy unexpectedly high levels of representation whereas others present...
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作者：Alon-Barkat, Saar
作者单位：Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
摘要：Effective public communications have been proposed as a remedy for citizens' distrust in government. Recent studies pointed to the emotional effect of symbolic elements, entangled in government public communications (e.g., logos, images, and celebrities). Still, they did not examine the interaction between these symbols and the substantive information in communications about bureaucracies' performance and policies. Exploring this interaction is important for understanding the theoretical mecha...
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作者：Hattke, Fabian
作者单位：University of Hamburg
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作者：Gorina, Evgenia; Trang Hoang
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Over the past decade, many states have reformed their retirement systems by reducing benefit generosity, tightening retirement provisions, introducing non-defined-benefit (DB) plan options and even replacing DB plans with defined-contribution plans. Many of these reforms have affected post-employment benefits that public workers will receive when they retire. Have these reforms also affected the attractiveness of public sector employment? To answer this question, we use state-level data from 2...
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作者：Elston, Thomas; Dixon, Ruth
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：Administrative intensity (AI) describes the proportion of total resources that organizations spend on administrative support functions rather than primary service and production processes. We test whether sharing administrative activities between organizations leads to a fall in AI due to economies of scale, as is often supposed, using organizational and financial data from more than 300 English local authorities. We employ multi-wave change score regression analysis to relate changes in AI fr...
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作者：Holt, Stephen B.
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：Sector differences in prosocial motivations and behaviors among workers receives a great deal of attention in public administration scholarship. Extant literature consistently finds public sector workers are more likely to engage in prosocial behaviors, such as volunteering, than their peers in the private sector. Less attention has been paid to the sector gap in volunteerism along the intensive margin. Using time-diary data, which accounts for potential social desirability bias, from a nation...
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作者：Mastekaasa, Arne
作者单位：University of Oslo
摘要：Evidence from many countries shows that public sector employees have considerably higher rates of absenteeism than have private sector employees. Based on regression analyses of a large probability sample of the Norwegian population, this article shows that most of the sector difference in long-term absence can be accounted for by taking into consideration the sociodemographic characteristics of the workforce and the occupational composition in the two sectors. A clear sector difference in sho...
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作者：Asseburg, Julia; Hattke, Judith; Hensel, David; Homberg, Fabian; Vogel, Rick
作者单位：University of Hamburg; Helmut Schmidt University; Luiss Guido Carli University
摘要：The public sector provides a broad range of incentives to apply for jobs, but these incentives have rarely been studied in concert. The present study disentangles how job candidates form intentions to apply for a public sector job in multi-incentive settings and how this process depends on public service motivation (PSM). Using a speeded categorization task in an experimental vignette methodology with 340 current job seekers in the United Kingdom, we focus on perceptions that potential applica...
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作者：Gorina, Evgenia; Trang Hoang
