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作者：Robinson, Scott E.; Flink, Carla M.; King, Chad M.
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Texas A&M University System; East Texas A&M University Commerce
摘要：The basic dynamics of punctuated policy change have been found to be present in a wide variety of political institutions from a range of countries. The presenceueven commonalityu of punctuated change has been clearly and persuasively demonstrated. A key challenge in the literature is now to identify the conditions and institutional arrangements that make punctuated change more likely. This article investigates the role of organizational history in punctuated budgetary change. An error-accumula...
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作者：Whitford, Andrew B.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Agencies must simultaneously weigh technical information along with the political and distributive consequences of their decisions. In a study of the US Environmental Protection Agencys (EPAs) implementation of federal pesticide regulations, I show that the EPA accounts for both case and constituency factors. I assess the effects of both uncertainty and information in agency decisions. I offer the use of a multilevel model with three types of random effects to capture specific case factors (th...
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作者：Raab, Joerg
作者单位：Tilburg University
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作者：Oberfield, Zachary W.
作者单位：Haverford College
摘要：Though management is theorized as a temporal process, and public organizations are understood as generally inertial, most public management studies rely upon cross-sectional research designs. As such, we have little understanding about how public management matters over time. To fill this gap in the literature, this article conducts a longitudinal analysis of one of the most established management theories: Basss full range of leadership theory. This theory expects positive outcomes when manag...
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作者：van Hulst, Merlijn J.
作者单位：Tilburg University
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作者：Grissom, Jason A.
作者单位：Vanderbilt University
摘要：Few studies have examined the impact of governing board decision processes on board and organizational outcomes. This study draws on research on small work teams in the private sector to develop expectations about the relationship between outcomes and one aspect of board dynamics that affects decision making: intraboard conflict. Using administrative and survey data from school board members and school district superintendents in California, I show a consistent pattern of negative associations...
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作者：Park, Hyun Hee; Rethemeyer, R. Karl
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：This article investigates the role of resource dependence in explaining the social structure of policy networks while controlling for the effects of microstructure, such as the tendency for networks to display reciprocity and/or transitive closure. While previous studies have analyzed resource dependence as a factor in decision making in policy networks, surprisingly little is known about the effects of these social factors on the structure of policy networks due, in part, to the statistical c...
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作者：Garrow, Eve E.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Salamon (Salamon, Lester. M. 1995. Partners in public service. Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins Univ. Press) and others have argued that government and nonprofit human service organizations work in partnership to address poverty, with government funding the efforts of nonprofits that provide services to the poor. However, this approach does not consider how the racial composition of high-poverty neighborhoods might influence governments willingness to support the nonprofit human service organiz...
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作者：Choi, Taehyon; Robertson, Peter J.
作者单位：Seoul National University (SNU); University of Southern California
摘要：The purpose of the present research is to contribute to the task of building theory pertinent to collaborative governance through the use of a novel research methoducomputer simulation using agent-based modeling (ABM). We explore the relationships between a number of characteristics and outcomes of collaborative forums, focusing on the effects of a process of deliberation through which stakeholders build shared understanding of the issue, and of decision-making rules used to control power imba...
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作者：Girth, Amanda M.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Governments continue to increase their reliance on private and nonprofit agents to deliver goods and services to citizens. Yet there is a dearth of scholarly research on the critical decisions made by public managers throughout the contract implementation processudecisions that can have a profound impact on the quality of services delivered to citizens and on the accountability of contractors to the public interest. This research addresses the accountability dynamics in local government contra...
