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作者：Limbocker, Scott
作者单位：United States Military Academy; United States Department of Defense; United States Army
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作者：Arapis, Theodore; Bowling, Cynthia
作者单位：Villanova University; Auburn University System; Auburn University
摘要：Since the 1960s, public choice theorists have stigmatized bureaucrats as budget maximizers who only care for expanding their own agencies. Despite evidence revealing much more diverse budget behaviors, scholars have almost exclusively focused on studying budget maximizing and its associated factors. To address this limitation, this study employs a multi-level cross-classified logistic regression model to explore factors associated with budget-minimizing preferences or goals instead. While budg...
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作者：Jilke, Sebastian; Baekgaard, Martin
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Aarhus University
摘要：The provision of public services is a key responsibility of elected politicians. Research suggests that citizens' satisfaction evaluations of public services are incomplete representations of service quality and performance. However, little attention has been given to the political nature of service evaluations. Based on the theory of (partisan) motivated reasoning and the literature on responsibility attribution, we argue that citizens provide more favorable evaluations of municipal services ...
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作者：Jimenez, Benedict S.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：One of the fundamental questions in democratic governance is whether policies are best decided by elected officials or by appointed bureaucrat-experts. The study examines this issue in the context of how municipal government form influences government-wide budgetary solvency. Government form creates distinct incentives for executive action that shape budget outcomes. In mayor-council governments, the elected executive's desire to be reelected increases responsiveness to voters' preferences. Vo...
