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作者：Mosley, Jennifer E.; Grogan, Colleen M.
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：Increasing public participation in administrative decision making has become an important goal in many public agencies. To determine who should participate in an open decision-making process, many public agencies develop purposive selection strategies to counteract the obvious biases that arise from self-selection. To accomplish this, leaders of nonprofit organizations, assumed to represent the views of the residents they serve, are often asked to serve as community representatives in a variet...
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作者：Brandsma, Gijs Jan; Schillemans, Thomas
作者单位：Utrecht University
摘要：Accountability is one of the cornerstones of a democratic political system, but remarkably little is known of how it works in practice. Much of the literature focuses either on finding the most appropriate definition or on demonstrating the effect of information asymmetries using game-theoretic arguments. This article aims to go one step further by attempting to map out the intensity of accountability processes. Based on an extensive literature review, it disentangles the various meanings of t...
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作者：Esteve, Marc; Boyne, George; Sierra, Vicenta; Ysa, Tamyko
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：Upper echelons theory suggests that the characteristics of chief executives affect the strategic choices of their organizations. In this article, we examine whether the characteristics of top managers make a difference to the extent of interorganizational collaboration in the public sector. Using survey data from 228 chief executives from Catalonia, we test upper echelons theory and control for top managers institutional settings such as the size and the sector of the organization, as well as ...
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作者：Miller, Susan M.
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：One of the most fundamental questions for democratic governance is how to structure a system that promotes policy choices that reflect citizens preferences. Given the typical absence of any direct connection between voters and administrators, scholars have devoted considerable attention to whether the bureaucracy is consistent with this important tenet of democracy. However, there is not always a disconnect between administrative officials and the electorate. In the US states , many of the ind...
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作者：Atkins, Danielle N.; Wilkins, Vicky M.
作者单位：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Research in the field of representative bureaucracy provides evidence that the presence of minority and female bureaucrats can improve outcomes for minority and female clients of an agency. However, the previous work has almost exclusively connected the benefits of representation to outcomes directly linked to the primary purpose of the organization. We contend that there may be additional benefits linked to bureaucratic representation that are beyond the mission of the agency. To test this co...
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作者：Kennedy, Brandy A.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia College & State University
摘要：An ongoing weakness in the field of representative bureaucracy is an overreliance on quantitative analysis, partly driven by limited data availability. Studies have consistently relied on settings, such as education, where quantitative data are easily accessible. Although these studies provide great insight, the findings may not translate into other policy settings. The concept of role perception allows expansion of representative bureaucracy studies into a variety of settings. Using Q-sort an...
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作者：Gravier, Magali
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School
摘要：This article presents an analysis of the European Commissions staffing policies. It focuses in particular on the extent to which, over time, the Commission has taken the criterion of nationality into account. The theoretical framework of this study is the theory of representative bureaucracy. The article shows that, although the Commission does not use a quota system, its staffing policies have evolved from a limited practice of representation to a complex, explicit, but flexible strategy of r...
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作者：Fishenden, Jerry; Thompson, Mark
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Cambridge
摘要：This article argues that the future of public services will be shaped increasingly by the evolution of global, Internet-enabled, digital platforms, with two distinctive technical and commercial features. First, use of open standards and architectures that separate standard business logic from supporting applications will allow government to become technology- and vendor-agnostic, freeing it from its overdependence on proprietary systems and suppliers. Second, over time, open standards and incr...
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作者：Kjeldsen, Anne Mette; Jacobsen, Christian Botcher
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：Numerous studies have shown that public service motivation (PSM) is positively associated with public sector employment. However, the question of whether PSM influences or is influenced by employment decisions remains open since previous studies have mostly relied on cross-sectional samples with experienced employees. This article investigates the relationship between PSM and employment sector in pre- and postentry settings using data from a panel of Danish physiotherapy students surveyed befo...
