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作者：Weibel, Antoinette; Rost, Katja; Osterloh, Margit
作者单位：University of Liechtenstein; University of Zurich
摘要：Current reforms in the public sector are characterized by the introduction of businesslike incentive structures, in particular the introduction of pay for performance schemes in public institutions. However, the public sector has some specific characteristics, which might restrict the naive adoption of pay for performance. Our article analyzes whether the impact of pay for performance on performance is bound to conditions, and if this is the case, under which conditions pay for performance has...
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作者：Keiser, Lael R.; Miller, Susan M.
作者单位：University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
摘要：The bureaucracy has a profound impact on the direction of policy when it determines eligibility for a variety of government programs. Given the significance of eligibility determination for policy and the fact that street-level bureaucrats have great latitude when interpreting eligibility standards, organized interests have an incentive to try to influence the application of eligibility rules. Despite this, few researchers have explored the impact of organized interests on eligibility determin...
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作者：Darnall, Nicole; Potoski, Matthew; Prakash, Aseem
作者单位：George Mason University; Iowa State University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Stakeholders who seek to reward or punish businesses for their environmental programs often cannot observe these organizations' internal policies and operations. To address these informational problems, and signal their beyond-compliance environmental commitments, some businesses are participating in voluntary environmental programs (VEPs). This article examines whether business managers associate the brand value of VEPs-due to their differing program sponsors-with the perceived preferences of...
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作者：Keller, Ann C.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Organizations that provide scientific information to policy makers face the difficult challenge of maintaining scientific credibility while establishing their political relevance. A growing body of research examines how assessment organizations meet the potentially competing expectations of science and policy communities. However, existing research has failed to produce generalizable findings. This study draws together theoretical approaches in science studies and organization theory to develo...
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作者：Brecher, Charles; Brazill, Caitlyn; Weitzman, Beth C.; Silver, Diana
作者单位：New York University
摘要：This article uses the Advocacy Coalition Framework to identify the stakeholders and their coalitions in the arena of after-school policy, which drew much new attention beginning in the early 1990s in many American cities. Using evidence from case studies in five cities, we show how the framework can be extended beyond stakeholder analysis to include identification of core and secondary value conflicts and of opportunities for policy analysis to help strengthen coalitions and pressures for chan...
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作者：Nohrstedt, Daniel
摘要：This study applies the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) to developments in Swedish nuclear energy policy in the 1970s and 80s. In an effort to contribute to the refinement and debate regarding the generalizability of ACF theory, the objective is to assess the utility of ACF assumptions when applied in this case. The study explores hypotheses about advocacy coalition stability and examines the motivations explaining policy change in the wake of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident and the 1986...
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作者：Yackee, Jason Webb; Yackee, Susan Webb
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：We provide the first empirical assessment of the ossification thesis, the widely accepted notion that procedural constraints on federal agencies have greatly hindered the ability of those agencies to formulate policy through notice and comment rule-making. Using data that cover all active federal rule-writing agencies from 1983 to 2006, our results largely disconfirm the ossification thesis. Agencies appear readily able to issue a sizeable number of rules and to do so relatively quickly. Indee...
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作者：Yang, Kaifeng; Kassekert, Anthony
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：Recent public management literature has emphasized the influence of public sector characteristics on employee attitudes, behaviors, and performance. This article assesses how recent management reforms, such as contracting out, civil service overhaul (also known as Title 5 exemptions or removal of civil service protections), and managing for results are associated with employee job satisfaction in the federal government. Using the Federal Human Capital Survey 2006 dataset, this article finds th...
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作者：Teodoro, Manuel P.
作者单位：Colgate University
摘要：Professional networks are widely recognized as important sources of environmental protection policy innovation. I argue that innovations are most likely to diffuse from professions to governments under conditions of bureaucratic job mobility. When an agency head arrives from outside the government he serves, she carries both a reputation and mandate for innovation. The incentives for innovation are less potent when an agency head is promoted from within. The result is mobility-contingent profe...
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作者：Jacobson, Willow S.; Palus, Christine Kelleher; Bowling, Cynthia J.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Villanova University; Auburn University System; Auburn University
摘要：Understanding the relationship between organizational performance, gender, and management is crucial to scholars and practitioners alike. In this article, we focus on whether women manage differently than their male counterparts and whether these varied behaviors translate to organizational outcomes. With respect to management activities, we examine internal management as well as external networking patterns with peers and political principals. Through our investigation, we also address a numb...
