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作者：Boyer, Eric J.; Van Slyke, David M.; Rogers, Juan D.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas El Paso; Syracuse University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：This article investigates the roles and impacts of public involvement in public- private partnerships (PPPs). Our findings contribute to the literature on public-private collaborations by demonstrating the ways that the facilitation of deliberative activities can provide administrative benefits to PPPs. The results suggest that although public involvement can improve support from citizens and political leaders for PPPs and improve the tailoring of project designs to local conditions, the proce...
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作者：Chen, Kai
作者单位：Xiamen University
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作者：Gagnon, Alexandre Couture
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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作者：Moldogaziev, Tima T.; Resh, William G.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Southern California
摘要：In this study, we evaluate the success of adopted innovations in public organizations as a function of the relative source of innovation vis-a-vis the organizational environment. We argue that the source of innovation will be varyingly associated with subsequent perceptions of implementation success depending on locational characteristics of the source and the innovation's outcome locus. Neither top-down nor bottom-up arguments of implementation offer a complete picture of perceived implementa...
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作者：Nicholson-Crotty, Sean; Grissom, Jason A.; Nicholson-Crotty, Jill; Redding, Christopher
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Vanderbilt University
摘要：Scholars have suggested that the benefits of representative bureaucracy arise from bureaucrats acting in the interests of clients who share their characteristics, increased diversity encouraging even nonminority bureaucrats work to further the interests of minority clients, and/or the actions of clients that are more responsive to bureaucrats that share their characteristics. Despite decades of research, the literature has been unable to empirically disentangle these mechanisms, primarily beca...
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作者：Anderson, Sarah E.; Potoski, Matthew
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
摘要：Agency structure can shape agency independence in two ways. First, it can insulate agencies from policy demands from political overseers in Congress and the executive branch. Second, agency structure can shape the range of available options from which agencies can select policy. In this article, we present a novel empirical approach that evaluates both types of effects by modeling the mean and variance of agencies' policy decisions. Analyses of US distributive program spending across 10 congre...
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作者：Greasley, Stephen; Hanretty, Chris
作者单位：University of Exeter; University of East Anglia
摘要：We investigate the life span and risk of termination of 723 arm's length agencies in the United Kingdom between 1985 and 2008, an under investigated question in parliamentary systems. We hypothesize that termination risk depends on three groups of factors: (1) factors relating to the rationales for initial delegation of responsibility to the arm's length agency; (2) factors relating to the political and economic position of the government; and (3) factors relating to the institutional form of ...
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作者：Scott, Tyler A.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Collaborative environmental governance strategies seek to improve management efforts by involving nongovernmental stakeholders and spanning sectoral and geographic boundaries, but it is unclear whether government funding for such efforts efforts pays off in terms of improved environmental outcomes. This paper explores a common case of collaborative governance-collaborative watershed councils (WCs)-and examines whether the actions of collaborative WCs improve water quality. Coupling longitudina...
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作者：Tatham, Michaeel; Bauer, Michael W.
作者单位：University of Bergen
摘要：As a response to the sovereign debt crisis, European states have carried out various reforms. In this process, they have sought to readjust the balance between free-market logics and the role of government. These reforms are often implemented-and sometimes co-decided-by regional administrations. Little is known, however, about the governance preferences of the elite officials directing these administrations. This is paradoxical since regional administrations play a crucial role in the recovery...
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作者：Lu, Jiahuan
作者单位：Mississippi State University
摘要：Performance-based contracting (PBC) is becoming increasingly attractive to public human service agencies. By linking contract compensation to contractors' performance, PBC is expected to foster quality services, to improve outcomes, and to reduce government monitoring. However, empirical evidence on the effectiveness of PBC remains both limited and mixed. Based on a case study of the Indiana vocational rehabilitation program, this article employs a quasi-experimental design to evaluate the eff...
