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作者：Perez-Lopez, Gemma; Prior, Diego; Zafra-Gomez, Jose L.
作者单位：University of Granada; Autonomous University of Barcelona
摘要：With the increase in public services offered at the local level and heightened budgetary and financial constraints on local government, new ways of managing local public services must be sought, in order to maximize the efficiency of resource management. Accordingly, local governments have introduced organizational changes, through contracting out, the creation of public agencies, and increased cooperation with other municipalities and private companies. However, previous studies have only exa...
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作者：Yackee, Susan Webb
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：I examine whether citizens who participate in agency rulemaking in the United States believe they have a meaningful voice. Using data drawn from 388 individuals, I employ an innovative survey research design approach-anchoring vignettes-to measure political efficacy during rulemaking, as well as a randomized survey experiment to study causal drivers. Despite powerful arguments associated with low efficacy, participants report, on average, a lot of say during rulemaking. However, experimental e...
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作者：Schillemans, Thomas; Busuioc, Madalina
作者单位：Utrecht University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：Principal-agent theory has been the dominant theory at the heart of public sector accountability research. The notion of the potentially drifting agent-such as independent public agencies, opaque transnational institutions, or recalcitrant street-level bureaucrats-has been the guiding paradigm in empirical accountability research. The aim of this article is first of all to signal the limits of principal-agent theory as a predictive model of how accountability evolves. A string of findings in a...
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作者：Marwell, Nicole P.; Calabrese, Thad
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); New York University
摘要：Much existing scholarship on nonprofit organizations' receipt of government funds appears to assume that there is something highly problematic about this relationship. Although rarely articulated in these studies, the concern about the negative effects of government funding turns on a view of nonprofits that privileges their private character. In this article, rather than examining how public funds constrain private action, we inquire about how government deploys private organizations, via the...
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作者：Piatak, Jaclyn Schede
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte
摘要：The face of public service continues to evolve as government copes with increasingly complex societal problems and changing means of service delivery. Public managers are now challenged to oversee programs that cut across sectors and organizational boundaries, and people carrying out the government's work can be found across all sectors-government, nonprofit, and for-profit. Unlike those in previous generations, younger individuals see opportunities to engage in public service in nonprofit and...
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作者：Stivers, Camilla
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University
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作者：Malatesta, Deanna; Van Slyke, David M.
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Purdue University in Indianapolis
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作者：Etienne, Julien
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：Detecting noncompliant behaviors is an important step in the enforcement of regulations. The literature on the subject is vast yet also narrow in its approach, in the sense that it has built on the assumption that regulators would always want to maximize information quantity and quality, while acting under two fundamental constraints: the regulator's resources and the information asymmetry between regulator and regulatee. This article argues that regulatory agencies might not always want to ma...
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作者：Beeri, Itai; Yuval, Fany
作者单位：University of Haifa; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
摘要：New Localism has attracted growing interest among both researchers and practitioners who deal with local governance. Although most research on the subject has emphasized institutional and national points of view, this study aims to elucidate public opinion toward a governmental policy that for some fundamentally contradicts and for others goes hand in hand with the principles of New Localism: namely, an end-case scenario under which the central government neutralizes failing local authorities....
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作者：Meier, Kenneth J.; Favero, Nathan; Zhu, Ling
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Cardiff University; University of Houston System; University of Houston
摘要：An extensive literature finds that managerial decisions matter for the performance of public organizations, yet little attention has been devoted to why managers make the decisions that they do. This article builds a theory of public management decision making based on the simple assumption that managers are concerned with performance and the performance gaps of their organization. Using a logic borrowed from bounded rationality and Bayesian decision theory, we theorize a set of prior expectat...
