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作者：Jenkins, Jade Marcus; Henry, Gary T.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; Vanderbilt University
摘要：Policy and public management scholars have long theorized about the fragmentation of policy governance across numerous agencies, yet the effects of concentrated or dispersed governance on outcomes of the target population are largely unknown. Child policy is a policy field where dispersion has raised particular concerns, leading several states to consolidate governance for children's programs in recent years. After presenting arguments both for and against the dispersion of policies across age...
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作者：Whitford, Andrew; Lee, Soo
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作者：Zhu, Xufeng; Zhang, Youlang
作者单位：Tsinghua University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：This article builds theoretical linkages between the political mobility of local officials and the dynamic diffusion of innovation in decentralized authoritarian China. We built two datasets consisting of city-level data on pro-business administrative licensing ( business registration) reform and micro-level data on officials' career histories in 281 Chinese cities between 1997 and 2012. By comparing empirical approaches between traditional event history analysis and piecewise constant exponen...
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作者：Maor, Moshe; Sulitzeanu-Kenan, Raanan
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：How do reputational threats affect agency outputs? We undertake quantitative and qualitative analyses of reputation and outputs data regarding the fight against welfare fraud by the main service delivery agency for the Australian government in the field of social policy. We find that an agency's response to reputational threats is endogenously differential both within the set of agency outputs and between agency outputs and other activities (a pattern we termed responsive change). For the form...
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作者：Bischoff, Ivo; Blaeschke, Frederic
作者单位：Universitat Kassel
摘要：Performance budgeting schemes in the public sector have to operate with imperfect performance measures. We argue that these imperfections generate incentives for the potential recipients of performance-based funds to use up resources in socially wasteful window dressing. Using a theoretical model, we analyze the trade-off between the efficiency-enhancing effect of performance budgeting (PB) and the social waste it induces. We show that the social waste from window dressing may outweigh the gai...
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作者：Raadschelders, Jos C. N.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
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作者：Hollibaugh, Gary E., Jr.
作者单位：University of Notre Dame
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作者：Lowry, Robert C.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Governments that want to subsidize goods or services can delegate responsibility for production to a public agency as part of its overall mission, subsidize production of specific outputs, or subsidize specific beneficiaries of excludable goods and services. For public postsecondary education, the corresponding funding mechanisms are operating appropriations that delegate authority to choose outputs and beneficiaries to public colleges and universities, grants and contracts, or student financi...
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作者：Ingold, Karin; Leifeld, Philip
作者单位：University of Bern; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology (EAWAG); University of Konstanz
摘要：The central assumption in the literature on collaborative networks and policy networks is that political outcomes are affected by a variety of state and nonstate actors. Some of these actors are more powerful than others and can therefore have a considerable effect on decision making. In this article, we seek to provide a structural and institutional explanation for these power differentials in policy networks and support the explanation with empirical evidence. We use a dyadic measure of infl...
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作者：Hu, Qian; Khosa, Sana; Kapucu, Naim
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida; State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida; State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida
摘要：The rapid growth of network research in public administration calls for a systematic review of existing network scholarship. We performed bibliometric analysis and content analysis to identify the research that has had impact on empirical network research in public administration. We examined the key theoretical foundations of existing network research with a focus on empirical network articles that used social network analysis in their methods. We examined the evolution of network scholarship...
