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作者：Jakobsen, Morten
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：The study focuses on whether government initiatives can increase citizen coproduction of public services, that is, citizens' input to the production of public services. This question has received considerable attention among scholars and governments, but the causal effect of government initiatives on citizen coproduction has been extremely difficult to measure due to endogeneity problems. Moreover, the literature has devoted limited attention to the important question of which citizens are lik...
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作者：Sinclair, Amber H.; Whitford, Andrew B.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Recent studies contend that public health agencies in the United States are in a state of turmoil because their organizational form causes them to take on conflicting mandates. One key reason is thought to be a trade-off in design: between creating stand-alone agencies for health and environment and creating agencies that combine the two. We use data on the organizational form of state health and environmental agencies to assess the choice of organizational form as a problem of institutional d...
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作者：Lecy, Jesse D.; Van Slyke, David M.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Syracuse University
摘要：Theories of nonprofit density have assumed a variety of dispositions toward the state, including opposition, suspicion, indifference, and mutual dependence. In this article, we conduct the first large-scale simultaneous empirical test of the two most prominent nonprofit theories: government failure theory and interdependence theory. The former characterizes nonprofit activities as substitute or oppositional to state programs, accounting for the limitations and failures of government-provided s...
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作者：Garrow, Eve E.; Grusky, Oscar
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Research on variation in policy implementation has examined how individual-and organizational-level variables shape discretionary practices at the frontlines of implementation but has given less attention to the influence of the organizational field. From an institutional logics perspective, the practices of street-level workers are likely to be more congruent with policy intent when policy is consistent with the core institutional logic that structures the organizational field. Using data fro...
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作者：Kim, Sangmook; Vandenabeele, Wouter; Wright, Bradley E.; Andersen, Lotte Bogh; Cerase, Francesco Paolo; Christensen, Robert K.; Desmarais, Celine; Koumenta, Maria; Leisink, Peter; Liu, Bangcheng; Palidauskaite, Jolanta; Pedersen, Lene Holm; Perry, James L.; Ritz, Adrian; Taylor, Jeannette; De Vivo, Paola
作者单位：Seoul National University of Science & Technology; Utrecht University; KU Leuven; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Aarhus University; University of Naples Federico II; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Universite Savoie Mont Blanc; Cardiff University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Kaunas University of Technology; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Bern; University of Western Australia
摘要：The growth in international research on public service motivation (PSM) raises a number of important questions about the degree to which the theory and research developed in one country can contribute to our understanding of PSM in other counties. To help address this issue, this study revisits the conceptual and operational definitions of PSM to address weaknesses previously noted in the literature. Although some important steps have been taken to both improve and internationalize the PSM sca...
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作者：Lewis, Paul G.; Provine, Doris Marie; Varsanyi, Monica W.; Decker, Scott H.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; City University of New York (CUNY) System
摘要：In 1996, Congress created a new way to enforce national immigration laws, inviting state and local law enforcement personnel to become formally involved in the effort. Why have police departments in some communities embraced increased involvement in immigration enforcement, whereas others have shunned this role? Do local elected officials typically determine the contours of police practice in this area or do police departments act with considerable autonomy in deciding how much to become invol...
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作者：Provan, Keith G.; Beagles, Jonathan E.; Mercken, Liesbeth; Leischow, Scott J.
作者单位：University of Arizona; Maastricht University
摘要：This research examines the awareness of evidence-based practices by the public organizations that fund services in the North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC). NAQC is a large, publicly funded, goal-directed whole network,'' spanning both Canada and the United States, working to get people to quit smoking. Building on prior research on the dissemination and diffusion of innovation and evidence-based practices, and considering differences between network ties that are homophilous versus instr...
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作者：Fernandez, Sergio; Moldogaziev, Tima
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Employee empowerment programs have been widely adopted in the public sector as a way to improve organizational performance. Empowered employees improve performance largely by finding innovative ways of correcting errors in service delivery and redesigning work processes. Failure to encourage innovation can seriously undermine the effectiveness of empowerment programs. Based on Bowen and Lawler's conceptualization of employee empowerment as a multifaceted management approach, this study explore...
