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作者：Nielsen, Poul A.; Baekgaard, Martin
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：Performance information has been argued to assist politicians in decision making on budgeting and reform, but research on how political decision makers respond to performance information is sparse. Building on blame-avoidance theory, we develop novel hypotheses concerning the impact of performance information on politicians' attitudes to spending and reform. To isolate the causal effect of performance information, we conducted a randomized survey experiment among 844 Danish city councilors. In...
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作者：Whitford, Andrew B.; Lee, Soo-Young
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Seoul National University (SNU)
摘要：We assess the turnover intentions of federal employees using Hirschman's theory of exit, voice, and loyalty. Specifically, we follow other studies that have tested the effects of loyalty and voice on the likelihood a person states their intention to leave. However, using large-scale survey evidence from the federal workforce, we are able to assess the impact of loyalty, voice, and other factors (including assessments of pay) on the likelihood that a respondent will retire, leave for another fe...
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作者：Moynihan, Donald; Herd, Pamela; Harvey, Hope
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Harvard University
摘要：This article offers two theoretical contributions. First, we develop the concept of administrative burden as an important variable in understanding how citizens experience the state. Administrative burden is conceptualized as a function of learning, psychological, and compliance costs that citizens experience in their interactions with government. Second, we argue that administrative burden is a venue of politics, that is, the level of administrative burden placed on an individual, as well as ...
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作者：Borry, Erin L.
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
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作者：Bertelli, Anthony M.; Mason, Dyana P.; Connolly, Jennifer M.; Gastwirth, David A.
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Public management researchers are interested in many characteristics of organizations that cannot be directly captured, making aggregated attitudes from surveys an attractive proxy. Yet difficulties in measuring meaningful attributes over time and across organizations have frequently limited statistical designs to a single organization or time. We offer a method for creating such statistical measures across agencies and time using item response theory. Focusing our attention on US federal admi...
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作者：O'Toole, Laurence J., Jr.; Meier, Kenneth J.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Cardiff University
摘要：Recent years have seen a substantial growth in the large-N quantitative study of public management and performance. Much of the progress can be attributed to a small number of data sets on local governments in a few countries. The range of data sets suggests the validity of the overall hypothesis of management affecting performance, but the precise findings also vary across these and other contexts. These various and sometimes conflicting findings suggest that additional gains might be made th...
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作者：Walker, Richard M.; Andrews, Rhys
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; Cardiff University
摘要：Local governments play a critical role in delivering services to the public. Over recent decades scholars have begun to empirically examine the relationship between the management and performance of local governments, locating this in economic, contingency, and resource-based theoretical frameworks. In this study, we undertake a comprehensive assessment of what is currently known about the management-performance hypothesis in local governments by integrating the empirical research that has bee...
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作者：Richards, Gregory S.; Duxbury, Linda
作者单位：University of Ottawa; Carleton University
摘要：Given that the performance of public-sector organizations is tied to the efficient use of knowledge, this exploratory study examined factors that influence knowledge acquisition by work groups in knowledge-intensive public-sector organizations. Based upon a review of the absorptive capacity and knowledge management literature, we defined knowledge acquisition as the change in the collective knowledge of groups over time. The amount of individual prior knowledge, and common knowledge among grou...
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作者：Kaufmann, Wesley
作者单位：University of Groningen
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作者：Sabharwal, Meghna
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：The dominant paradigm that frames the challenges women face in attaining upward mobility has been the glass ceiling metaphor. However, over the last decades women have made steady progress and are moving to positions of leadership. Women in leadership positions continue to face an uphill battle; they often are placed in precarious positions setting them up for failure and pushing them over the edge-a phenomenon recently termed as glass cliff. Using data from the 2010 Federal Employee Viewpoint...
