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作者：Barrows, Samuel; Henderson, Michael; Peterson, Paul E.; West, Martin R.
作者单位：Harvard University; Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University; Harvard University; Harvard University
摘要：The publication of information about public service performance has expanded dramatically in recent decades. Multiple experiments have shown that relative performance information influences citizens' evaluations of local services. It is unclear whether this information leads citizens to update their beliefs or temporarily employ different criteria, however, and we do not know if the influence of performance information will extend to contexts in which citizens have access to other information ...
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作者：Liu, Helen K.
作者单位：University of Hong Kong
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作者：Nistotskaya, Marina; Cingolani, Luciana
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; Hertie School
摘要：The article examines the effect of meritocratic recruitment and tenure protection in public bureaucracies on regulatory quality and business entry rates in a global sample. Utilizing a cross-country measure on the extent of meritocratic entry to bureaucracy and a time-series indicator of tenure protection, it subjects theoretical claims that these features improve the epistemic qualities of bureaucracies and also serve as a credible commitment device to empirical test. We find that, conditiona...
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作者：Brown, Trevor L.; Potoski, Matthew; Van Slyke, David
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; Syracuse University
摘要：When a product is difficult to specify in a contract and requires specialized investments for a market exchange, the buyer and seller can find themselves locked into a mutually dependent relationship in which both win-win and lose-lose outcomes are possible. This paper presents a theory of such complex contracting in the public sector and identifies the conditions that increase the likelihood of win-win outcomes for the buyer and the seller. Rules that allow parties to incentivize cooperative ...
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作者：Heinrich, Carolyn J.
作者单位：Vanderbilt University
摘要：The study of administrative burden-experienced in individual encounters with government-is being renewed with new theoretical developments and policy applications. Building on recent developments, this article aims to broaden the conceptual framing of administrative burden and extend its empirical investigation beyond concerns about access to and efficiency of public services to questions of individual and societal impacts. It also expands beyond the typical US or developed country context to ...
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作者：Favero, Nathan; Meier, Kenneth J.; O'Toole, Laurence J., Jr.
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Cardiff University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Twente
摘要：Much recent work in the study of public administration has emphasized new challenges and relatively unusual aspects of management. However, it is likely that the core features of traditional public administration play a crucial role, particularly regarding the delivery of performance. The most venerable of these aspects of public management have to do with internal management. We focus here on a cluster of key, intertwined management practices: setting challenging but feasible goals, building ...
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作者：Lim, Seunghoo; Berry, Frances S.; Lee, Keon-Hyung
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：The Risk Society as Ulrich Beck (Beck, Ulrich. 1992. Risk society: Towards a new modernity. London, UK: Sage, Beck, Ulrich. 1999. World risk society. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press) has called modern society, has changed the policy dynamics of many highrisk policies. Policy conflicts occur due to both physically objective risks and socially constructed risks. Risk politicization means that issue expansion and attention cycles are likely to be related to the social construction of policy images. A...
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作者：Liu, Helen K.
作者单位：University of Hong Kong
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作者：Porcher, Simon
摘要：Analytical frameworks of government service contracting decisions typically focus on the make-or-buy decision. In concepts, governments can either produce the service itself (make) or outsource production (buy). However, governments make and buy the same public services, a practice that is termed concurrent sourcing. Drawing on transaction costs economics and the resource-based view of the firm, this article examines empirically local governments' propensities to concurrently source public ser...
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作者：Sowa, Jessica E.
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver
