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作者：Mortensen, Peter B.; Green-Pedersen, Christoffer
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：All democratic countries have ministries for issues like foreign affairs, defense, transportation, education, and social affairs. Yet, we know little about what determines the number and issue content of ministries. Why do some policy issues have their own ministry while others do not and when are new ministries created? The article offers a theoretical argument for how creation and termination of ministries may be patterned from a policy agenda setting perspective that focuses on the importan...
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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：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：Carpenter, Daniel; Krause, George A.
作者单位：Harvard University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：Bureaucratic politics research couched within the new institutionalism paradigm has largely focused on principal authority rooted in formal (institutional) mechanisms that are ultimately both devised and chosen by politicians. A nascent literature has emerged over the past two decades whose underpinnings reflect increasing gravitation towards a transactional authority perspective, one that is compatible with behavioral theories of organizations. This transactional authority perspective departs...
