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作者：Hefetz, Amir; Warner, Mildred E.
作者单位：Cornell University; University of Haifa
摘要：Analysis of local government contracting decisions typically focuses on transactions costs related to service characteristics, especially asset specificity and difficulty of contract management. This analysis expands the focus to include market characteristics (competition), citizen characteristics (public interest in the service delivery process), and place characteristics (metro status and public management) and finds these are the more important factors. A 2007 survey of US city managers' r...
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作者：Jennings, Edward T., Jr.; Hall, Jeremy L.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Kentucky
摘要：The contemporary policy environment makes persistent demands on agency officials to use the best information available when making decisions about policies, programs, and practices. State and federal legislation calls on agencies to incorporate evidence-based practices (EBP) in their programs. Using data from a 2008 survey of state agency directors, we examine the extent to which state government agencies draw upon various sources of information to guide their decisions about programmatic oper...
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作者：Ingold, Karin; Varone, Frederic
作者单位：University of Bern; University of Geneva
摘要：The advocacy coalition framework (ACF) pays special attention to so-called policy brokers when explaining policy change. However, this prominent policy approach neither clearly defines who the policy brokers are nor identifies under which institutional rules they have an influence on policy processes and outputs. This article thus formulates two theoretical hypotheses that complement the ACF and then proceeds to undertake the first empirical testing of these hypotheses within the Swiss climate...
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作者：Yackee, Susan Webb
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Scholars generally agree that interest groups are active and at times influential during the notice and comment period of regulatory policymaking (or rulemaking). But current research often ignores the agenda setting that may take place during the pre-proposal stage of rulemaking. During proposal development, interest groups may lobby to: (1) influence the content of proposed regulations or (2) block items from the regulatory agenda altogether. This article focuses on ex parte lobbying-off the...
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作者：Nicholson-Crotty, Jill; Miller, Susan M.
作者单位：University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia; Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
摘要：An extensive literature explores the correlates of bureaucratic influence in the implementation of public policy. Considerably less work, however, has investigated the conditions under which bureaucratic actors influence legislative outcomes. In this article, we develop the argument that effectiveness should be a key determinant of bureaucratic influence in the legislative process and identify a set of institutional characteristics that may facilitate or constrain this relationship. We test th...
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作者：Oosterwaal, Annemarije; Torenvlied, Rene
作者单位：Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Utrecht University
摘要：The question whether political conflict affects the course and outcomes of policy implementation is debated among scholars in public administration. Whereas some scholars emphasize the mediating effects of procedures for political control of bureaucracy, other scholars highlight the actions and preferences of agencies. The present study combines both perspectives and argues that policy divergence is explained by political conflict in interaction with agency preferences. Political conflict is s...
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作者：Neshkova, Milena I.; Guo, Hai (David)
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：Public participation in administrative decision making has been widely advocated by both theorists and practitioners of public administration. Despite the importance of citizen engagement, we know little about its impact on the performance of government agencies. Is participation only normatively desirable or does it have some practical value attached to it? We draw on data from U. S. state transportation agencies to test the relevance of two theoretical perspectives about the effect of public...
