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作者:Whetsell, Travis
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作者:Barnes, Carolyn Y.; Henly, Julia R.
作者单位:Duke University; University of Chicago
摘要:Scholars have explored the nature and consequences of administrative burden but less is known about how citizens interpret costly encounters with the state. This qualitative study of 85 child care subsidy recipients applies attribution theory from psychology to illustrate how clients develop causal explanations for administrative burden. The findings show that clients either blamed negative experiences on bureaucrats-viewing workers as in control of their behavior, or the bureaucracy-blaming f...
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作者:Park, Chul Hyun
作者单位:University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Little Rock; University of Arkansas Fayetteville
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作者:Thomann, Eva; van Engen, Nadine; Tummers, Lars
作者单位:University of Exeter; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Utrecht University
摘要:The topic of discretion continues to be hotly debated in policy design and policy implementation. In top-down theories, discretion at the frontline is often seen as a control problem: discretion should be avoided as it can mean that the policy is not implemented as intended. Conversely, bottom-up theories state that discretion can help policy implementers tailor a policy to specific circumstances. However, there has been little systematic research into how the experience of having discretion m...
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作者:Girth, Amanda M.
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
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作者:Yi, Hongtao; Berry, Frances Stokes; Chen, Wenna
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; State University System of Florida; Florida State University; City University of Hong Kong
摘要:Although scholars of policy diffusion have explored the effects of learning, competition, and geographic proximity in the diffusion process, extant theories have not paid enough attention to the roles of the change agents. This study proposes an Agent Network Diffusion (AND) model that explicitly models how leadership transfer networks, a complex system of public managers' career paths, could potentially channel the diffusion of performance innovations. With longitudinal data on government lea...
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作者:Kempf, Robin J.
作者单位:City University of New York (CUNY) System; John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)
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作者:Salvador Iborra, Susanna; Saz-Carranza, Angel; Fernandez-i-Marin, Xavier; Albareda, Adria
作者单位:Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE); University of Munich; Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
摘要:In this article, we answer the research question What factors affect the structural complexity of network administrative organizations (NAOs)? The question warrants further research because of the lack of empirical studies on the topic. We design a quantitative study of the structure of all 37 European regulatory networks. Using Bayesian statistics, we analyze the new data set and test hypotheses, derived from the literature, about the factors affecting the structural complexity of NAOs. We fi...
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作者:Nisar, Muhammad A.
作者单位:Lahore University of Management Sciences
摘要:An important research agenda in public administration is to investigate how formal and realized public policy influences the lives of marginalized social groups. Recently, reinvigorated research on administrative burden can make useful contributions to this line of inquiry. Using ethnographic research methods, this article analyzes administrative burden experienced by the Khawaja Sira-individuals culturally defined as neither men nor women-of Pakistan in getting a legal ID. In doing so, this a...
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作者:Lee, Jeongyoon; Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Park, Hyun Hee
作者单位:Ball State University; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY; Kookmin University
摘要:This study explores how policy funding context-defined as whether funding for a social service policy domain is discretionary or mandated-affects network structures in social service domains. We present comparative findings from two social service policy networks which differ with respect to funding context: A 47-actor adult basic education policy network that is funded discretionarily and a 40-actor mental health policy network where spending is mandated. Both are located in a US state we pse...