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作者：Jong, Jaehee; Ford, Michael T.
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：Based on the Job Demands-Resources literature and social exchange theory, this study examines the lagged effects of job resources and job demands at the agency level on organizational commitment at the individual level, with these effects mediated by individual-level demands and resources. Using hierarchical linear modeling to analyze data obtained from federal government employees ( agency N = 38, employee N = 295,851), this study found that aggregated job resources ( empowerment, cooperation...
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作者：Marvel, John D.
作者单位：George Mason University
摘要：The premise of our article is that repeated exposure to antipublic sector messages affects the way people evaluate the performance of public sector organizations. More specifically, we argue that individuals' implicit attitudes regarding public sector organizations are biased: Citizens automatically and unconsciously associate public sector organizations with inefficiency, inflexibility, and other pejoratives, and these automatic associations color their assessments of public sector performanc...
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作者：Jensen, Jens Ledet; Mortensen, Peter B.; Serritzlew, Soren
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：It has been shown empirically across countries and political systems, and for different levels of government, that the distribution of budget changes follows a non-Gaussian distribution, a power function. This implies that budgets are very stable, yet occasionally are punctuated by very large changes. To explain this strong empirical generalization, Jones and Baumgartner (2005a) developed the Dynamic Model of Choice for Public Policy, which today is the dominant explanation of stability and ch...
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作者：Essig, Linda
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
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作者：Andersen, Simon Calmar; Hjortskov, Morten
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：Performance evaluations are a central component in the administration of public organizations. The predominant model of how both public managers and citizens evaluate performance suggests that satisfaction judgments about performance are based on a comparison of performance to some adapted standard like expectations or goals. However, in a number of experiments we show that perceptions of performance and satisfaction are formed in ways that are not so consistent and better explained by an intu...
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作者：Yee, Wai-Hang; Tang, Shui-Yan; Lo, Carlos Wing-Hung
作者单位：National University of Singapore; University of Southern California; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：What drives regulatees' behaviors when the institution of law is weak? This study seeks to answer the question by examining environmental regulation enforcement in China. Based on survey and interview data on Hong Kong-owned manufacturing enterprises in the Pearl River Delta Region, Guangdong Province, we found that their decisions to adopt basic and proactive environmental management practices were less driven by concerns for legality than by their perceptions of the regulators' actions and g...
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作者：Carter, David P.
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：Many contemporary regulatory programs rely on third-party organizations to fulfill monitoring and enforcement functions. Third-party regulatory designs introduce complexity and potentially conflicting incentives that can impact program delivery. This article examines how regulatory program outputs are shaped by third-party administrators through an investigation of the organizations charged with administering US organic food regulations. Based on the notion that third-party arrangements draw a...
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作者：Flink, Carla M.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
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作者：Acs, Alex
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：A critical though underexplored decision that regulatory agencies make is their choice of which statutes to implement as they set their regulatory agenda. In a standard positivist framework, strategic agencies should be expected to implement statutes of varying partisan origins in order to satisfy the ideological preferences of their political principals-conservative principals, for example, may prefer regulation that implements statutes passed by conservative coalitions. In this article, I de...
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作者：Rubin, Ellen V.; Weinberg, Stephen E.
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：Civil service reforms over the last four decades have sought to provide new flexibilities to managers, particularly in relation to performance management. Reforms undertaken by many US states are consistent with this trend. State employees report these managerial flexibilities are decreasing perceptions of fairness. At the federal level, personnel reforms in the US Department of Defense also sought to increase managerial discretion. Defense identified employee perceptions of fairness as key to...
