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作者：Honig, Dan
作者单位：Johns Hopkins University
摘要：There is little methodological guidance regarding how to best integrate qualitative observational case study data and quantitative large-N observational data in the study of public agencies in a mutually supportive way. There are a broad range of potential applications of mutually supportive mixed methods, which can be of help whenever one tool of inquiry (e.g., econometric analysis) suffers from weaknesses (e.g., omitted variables, measurement techniques which may not be unbiased, the inabili...
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作者：Doherty, Kathleen M.; Lewis, David E.; Limbocker, Scott
作者单位：University of Southern California; Vanderbilt University; United States Department of Defense; United States Army; United States Military Academy
摘要：If presidents wish to see their policy priorities implemented, they need control over key decision-making positions often occupied by career executives. This article examines whether political conflict with a new administration drives career executives from their positions. This can happen because presidents target specific individuals or because career professionals anticipate conflict and strategically exit before a new president takes office. To assess this dynamic, we use novel data that c...
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作者：Zhu, Ling; Witko, Christopher; Meier, Kenneth J.
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; American University; Cardiff University; Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
摘要：This essay introduces the articles in the public administration methods symposium that will appear in this and the next two issues of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Overall the articles present the need for a rigorous methodological pluralism in public administration where the methods used need to match the substantive questions asked. The symposium hopes to provide a spring board for a discussion of future methodological issues in public administration.
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作者：Ashworth, Rachel Elizabeth; McDermott, Aoife Mary; Currie, Graeme
作者单位：Cardiff University; University of Warwick
摘要：Scholars emphasize the need for additional rigor in qualitative research. This inadvertently encourages formulaic and standardized approaches that undermine the benefits of theorizing from rich data. Our study extends debate by emphasizing the importance of sound qualitative public administration research that blends rigor with richness and thereby facilitates effective theorization. Evidence from a narrative review of 31 qualitative studies published within six leading public administration j...
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作者：Cheng, Yuan (Daniel)
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Empirical studies and theories of government-nonprofit relationships have assumed a unidirectional funding flow from governments to nonprofits and therefore focusing on the impact of governments on nonprofits. By articulating multiple mechanisms of how nonprofits may influence government spending and utilizing a unique panel dataset that contains nonprofit and local government spending on parks, this article tests several prominent theoretical models of government-nonprofit relationships to an...
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作者：Mele, Valentina; Belardinelli, Paolo
作者单位：Bocconi University
摘要：Over the last decades, the use of mixed methods (MMs) has been burgeoning across social sciences. MMs have also been recommended as a viable research strategy for conducting studies in Public Administration. Through a systematic review conducted on seven journals, the article explores the extent to which the field has seized this opportunity and how it has done so. The review is organized around a framework that offers guidance on the analysis and design of MMs and is based on three pillars: s...
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作者：Williamson, Aimee L.
作者单位：Suffolk University
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作者：Nowell, Branda; Albrecht, Kate
作者单位：North Carolina State University
摘要：Institutions are useful for advancing methodologies within disciplines. Through required coursework, doctoral students are indoctrinated into basic guidelines and frameworks that provide a common foundation for scholars to interact with one another. Lacking such forums in many of our doctoral granting institutions (Stout 2013), the field of public management continues to struggle with an ambivalence toward qualitative approaches. Lack of shared understanding concerning basic tenets of qualitat...
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作者：Jones, Michael D.
作者单位：Oregon State University
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作者：Veronesi, Gianluca; Kirkpatrick, Ian; Altanlar, Ali
作者单位：University of Bristol; University of Warwick; University of Leeds
摘要：Although managers are, globally, a central part of the new public management reform agenda, in recent years, policy makers and the media have raised concerns about their effectiveness and contribution. In some countries, notably the United Kingdom and the United States, this debate has been heavily influenced by Public Choice Theory (PCT), which depicts bureaucrats as rent seeking, self-serving individuals. In this study, focusing on the case of acute care hospital trusts in the English Nation...
