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作者：Christensen, Robert K.; Szmer, John; Stritch, Justin M.
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作者：Porter, Ethan; Rogowski, Jon C.
作者单位：George Washington University; Harvard University
摘要：Though political candidates, observers, and voters often express concern about partisan meddling in supposedly neutral elections, existing research has not directly studied partisan bias among election administrators. We report results from a field experiment conducted in Wisconsin during the 2014 general election. Local election clerks were sent an information request from a putative constituent, randomizing the sender's partisanship. Our findings are mixed. Overall, partisan email-writers we...
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作者：Eldor, Liat
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This study seeks to investigate the effect of compassion in the public service workplace. Our compassion model is based on public service sector employees who receive compassionate feelings such as affection, generosity, caring, and tenderness from their supervisors. A longitudinal study of 166 public service employees, their supervisors and 333 of their clients (citizens) was conducted in Israel. In this longitudinal study, we found evidence that receipt of compassion from supervisors (at tim...
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作者：Su, Xuhong; Ni, Xing
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; Sun Yat Sen University
摘要：Despite the importance of public whistleblowing, there has been little systematic inquiry into the topic. Combining objective and self-reported data, this study attempts to sort out the dynamics of public whistleblowing against government corruption, particularly distinguishing the antecedents of whistleblowing intention from those of actual whistleblowing acts and exploring anonymity decisions. A middle-range theory is proposed that highlights individual, situational, and institutional forces...
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作者：Benjamin, Lehn M.; Posner, Paul L.
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Purdue University in Indianapolis; Purdue University System; Purdue University; Purdue University in Indianapolis; George Mason University
摘要：Tax expenditures have become a widely used tool of government in the United States, with the fiscal impact now rivaling appropriations for discretionary spending. But tax expenditures raise important accountability dilemmas and tradeoffs for the nation. We show that, despite repeated recommendations by oversight agencies to address the significant shortfalls in performance associated with this tool, policymakers and public managers alike remain ambivalent about instituting stronger accountabil...
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作者：Jilke, Sebastian; Tummers, Lars
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Utrecht University
摘要：Street-level bureaucrats have to cope with high workloads, role conflicts, and limited resources. An important way in which they cope with this is by prioritizing some clients, while disregarding others. When deciding on whom to prioritize, street-level bureaucrats often assess whether a client is deserving of help. However, to date the notion of the deserving client is in a black box as it is largely unclear which client attributes activate the prevailing social/professional category of deser...
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作者：Brunjes, Benjamin M.; Kellough, J. Edward
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：The theory of representative bureaucracy holds that demographic characteristics of public managers influence policy design and implementation, but only a few studies have been conducted on the impact of representative bureaucracy on contract decisions. This paper contributes to that work by examining the relationship between minority representation in federal agencies and the awarding of agency contracts to minority-owned businesses. Using federal-level employment and contracting data, we dete...
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作者：Barnes, Carolyn Y.; Henly, Julia R.
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作者：Gassner, Drorit; Gofen, Anat
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：It is now widely accepted that public policy is not merely about its formal wording but rather the ways it is implemented. Implementation portrayals are not uniform: some focus on street-level delivery while others refer to managerial actions of different administration levels. Although varied, current implementation research overlooks the distinct position of chief executive officers of street-level organizations, who are overarchingly in charge of, and accountable for, the direct delivery of...
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作者：Xu, Ping
作者单位：University of Rhode Island
