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作者：Avellaneda, Claudia N.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte
摘要：This study explores the effect on mayoral decision-making of three aspects of the decision environment: issue salience, context, and constraint. The study also tests the moderator effect that decision environment may have on a mayor's qualifications in terms of education and experience. These effects were tested on data drawn from a survey experiment whose subjects were 120 incumbent mayors representing 12 Latin American countries. Mayors were presented with a hypothetical municipal problem in...
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作者：Kelman, Steven; Hong, Sounman; Turbitt, Irwin
作者单位：Harvard University; Yonsei University; University of Warwick
摘要：Empirical works measuring whether interagency collaborations delivering public services produce better outcomes are few, and none looks inside the black box of collaboration management practices. We examine whether there are collaboration management practices associated with improved performance of Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships, an interagency collaboration in England and Wales. These exist in every local authority in England and Wales, so there are enough of them to permit quantit...
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作者：Taratoot, Cole D.
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Birmingham
摘要：The ability of unelected bureaucrats to shape public policy in a democracy has prompted scholars to try to understand the factors that affect agency decision making. The conclusion from this research has been that political ideology plays a substantial role in the policy decisions and outcomes of political appointees at independent agencies. However, researchers have largely ignored the role and influence of lower level decision making. In order to study how lower level decisions affect public...
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作者：Lavertu, Stephane; Moynihan, Donald P.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：A central purpose of performance management reforms such as the Bush administration's Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) is to promote the use of performance information in federal agencies. But reforms initiated by partisan political actors may be pursued differently, and may face relatively more obstacles, in agencies whose programs or personnel are associated with divergent political ideologies. Using data from a survey of federal agency managers, our analysis indicates that the impact o...
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作者：Lee, Soo-Young; Whitford, Andrew B.
作者单位：Seoul National University (SNU); University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：We assess the usefulness of a theory of organizations, the Resource-Based View, for the study of public agencies. We examine the differential impacts of an array of organizational resources (administrative, human, financial, physical, political, and reputation resources) on a core measure of federal agency effectiveness. Our analysis shows that certain types of resources have positive impacts on agency effectiveness, such as administrative (number of members in top governing structure), person...
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作者：Maor, Moshe; Gilad, Sharon; Bloom, Pazit Ben-Nun
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：To what extent and how do agencies manage their reputations through the strategic use of communication? Under what conditions are regulators inclined to respond to external judgments of their performance, and when are they disposed to keep silent? Based on a comprehensive data set and quantitative content analysis of the Israeli banking regulator's responses to public expressions of opinion between 1998 and mid-2009, we show how this agency tends to keep silent on issues regarding which it gen...
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作者：Morales, Fernando Nieto; Wittek, Rafael; Heyse, Liesbet
作者单位：University of Groningen
摘要：Proponents of new public management (NPM) expect public organizations to become more flexible and adaptive after administrative reforms, effectively showing convergence with patterns of organizational change in the private sector. This convergence argument is tested with a sample of 61 public and 61 private organizations in the Netherlands. We analyze whether public organizations, after 20 years of NPM reform, have changed their organizational structures and internal policies in relation to co...
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作者：Robinson, Scott E.; Liu, Xinsheng; Stoutenborough, James W.; Vedlitz, Arnold
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：Research reveals that levels of reported trust in government are at a relatively low level among the lowest in the period studied. At the same time, reported approval for specific administrative agencies varies widely, with some agencies receiving little support and others a great deal. This raises an important question: what factors drive trust in specific agencies? This article investigates the question in relation to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). We find that reported assessmen...
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作者：Jung, Chan Su
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong
摘要：This study examines the relationship between size and effectiveness of 97 US federal government organizations in combination with relevant mediating variables. The dependent variable, actual goal attainment, is considered as a measure of organizational effectiveness. The number of full-time employees and budget size, the independent variables, are considered as measures of organizational size. Mediating variables considered are goal ambiguity measures, the number of programs, the proportion of...
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作者：Dodge, Jennifer
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Albany State University
