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作者：Ulibarri, Nicola; Scott, Tyler A.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：How do social networks differ between highly collaborative and less collaborative forms of governance? Drawing on a prior study that characterized the level of collaboration for three federal hydropower relicensing processes, we develop exponential random graph models of meeting attendance and participation networks. We find that the highly collaborative relicensing process had lower overall density and a propensity for relatively fewer and stronger interactions. Reciprocity is highest in the ...
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作者：Jensen, Didde Cramer; Pedersen, Line Bjornskov
作者单位：Aarhus University; University of Southern Denmark
摘要：This article investigates whether the empathic abilities of street-level bureaucrats have an impact on their discretionary decision-making. The impact of empathic abilities on decision-making is considered an important research question, as our knowledge remains limited as to the importance of personal ability on decisions. The article further contributes to the field of street-level bureaucracy by conducting a discrete choice experiment, an approach highly suitable for examining discretionary...
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作者：James, Oliver; Van Ryzin, Gregg G.
作者单位：University of Exeter; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要：Public performance reporting is often promoted as a means to better inform citizens' judgments of public services. However, political psychology has found evidence of motivated reasoning, with citizens' accuracy motives often supplanted by biased searching for and evaluation of information to defend prior political attitudes, beliefs or identities. We conducted a survey experiment to evaluate motivated reasoning about the performance of the US Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare), whi...
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作者：van den Berg, Caspar
作者单位：Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University
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作者：Kogan, Vladimir; Lavertu, Stephane; Peskowitz, Zachary
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Emory University
摘要：Direct democracy is often touted as a means of reining in the administrative state, but it could also hinder the performance of public organizations. In particular, we argue that bargaining dynamics between voters and government officials can lead to costly administrative disruptions. We explore this issue by estimating the impact of Ohio tax referenda on school district administration using a regression discontinuity approach. The results suggest that administrators in districts where referen...
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作者：Resh, William G.
作者单位：University of Southern California
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作者：Hong, Sounman
作者单位：Yonsei University
摘要：This study aims to advance understanding of the distinctive areas of competence for central and local governments. In doing so, we focus on the relative impacts of two accountability mechanisms-elections and management approaches-on the bureaucratic attitudes and behaviors exhibited within central and local governments. We posit that elections have dominant impacts in local governments, whereas management systems play a relatively larger role in the central government. Due to this difference, ...
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作者：Jensen, Laura S.
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要：Since its founding, the American state has relied both upon what we now call traditional administration-public, hierarchical, and bureaucratic-and upon more privatized approaches to governance involving state and non-state actors and institutions in contractual relationships and networks. Studying past public-private governance schemes affords new opportunities to understand why, how, and under what circumstances state actors eschew direct public action in favor of boundary-spanning arrangemen...
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作者：Siciliano, Michael D.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要：Although much of the research on learning in the public sector examines collaborative arrangements and interorganizational networks, it often stresses the importance of individual dialogue and social interaction as primary methods of learning. Given the collective focus, the current emphasis on organizational interaction has left the individual mechanisms by which learning occurs unspecified and understudied. This study takes as its unit of analysis the dyadic, advice seeking ties that operate...
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作者：Hong, Sounman
作者单位：Yonsei University
摘要：This study examines the association between the degree to which a police force is ethnically representative of the population it serves and the force's engagement in racial profiling as a policing tactic. Evidence for this study comes from English and Welsh police forces that implemented force-specific recruitment targets for officers from ethnic minority backgrounds between 2000 and 2010. Results suggest that an increase in the proportion of ethnic minorities on a police force is significantl...
