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作者：James, Oliver
作者单位：University of Exeter
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作者：Lee, Jeongyoon; Dodge, Jennifer
作者单位：Ball State University; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：Explaining the mechanisms that structure policy networks is an important subject of public management research as networks are key mechanisms of convening actors across public, private, and nonprofit sectors to design and implement public policies. Previous research focuses on the positive role of trust in building network structures in the context of social service delivery. But many policy networks can be adversarial, particularly those that operate in a regulatory context. We know little ab...
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作者：Holbein, John B.; Hassell, Hans J. G.
作者单位：Brigham Young University; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：In recent years, performance-based accountability reforms have become widespread-particularly in the public education system-as a means of enhancing service delivery and citizens' knowledge of and engagement with government. While an ever-growing literature has considered the overall effects of these administrative systems, few have fully considered the effect these have on underlying subgroups of relevance and inequalities in responses across these groups. In this article, we examine how citi...
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作者：Hvidman, Ulrik
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：The performance of public sector agencies constitutes a longstanding concern in both policy and academia. Recent research suggests that citizens associate the public sector with ineffectiveness and wastefulness. This article approaches this debate by examining how citizens' perception of whether an organization is public or not affects their performance assessment. The study is based on two large-scale experiments conducted among representative samples of Danish citizens. The findings show tha...
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作者：Flink, Carla M.
作者单位：American University
摘要：Literature on punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) explains the reasons organizations undergo incremental and punctuated policy changes. This study examines PET within the budgeting process. Alongside disproportionate information processing and institutional friction, recent innovations in PET have incorporated organizational history and theories from public administration to explain budgetary fluctuations. Part of the work merging PET with public administration has demonstrated how policy feed...
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作者：Poole, Ed Gareth
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：Claims that decentralization could improve government accountability and responsiveness led to its adoption as a policy objective across the globe. But recent empirical work finds little evidence of tier effects in practice; instead, significant variation exists even between most-similar bodies. Recognizing the value of Freedom of Information (FOI) in facilitating large-scale data collection, and that the UK's institutional diversity offers an important source of between- and within-tier varia...
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作者：Caponio, Tiziana
作者单位：European University Institute
