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作者：Nikolic, Sara J. S.; Koontz, Tomas M.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Across a range of issue areas, governments are increasingly collaborating with nonprofit organizations (NPOs) to achieve policy goals. In the environmental arena, growing concerns over nonpoint source pollution(1) have led governments to work through NPOs rather than rely on traditional regulatory approaches. But past studies suggest that government assistance to NPOs can diminish their autonomy, flexibility, and responsiveness-the very qualities that make them attractive to policymakers. Prio...
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作者：Feeney, Mary K.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要：In this article, I investigate whether or not there is variance in public managers' perceptions of worker quality and work life, by sector. Specifically, I investigate whether state-level public managers perceive the public sector or the private sector as having more challenging work and more talented workers, and how those perceptions are conditioned by previous work experience, motivations for taking their current jobs, education, race, and other demographic characteristics. Using multinomia...
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作者：Zullo, Roland
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：National Transit Data from 1993 through 2004 is analyzed to examine the effects of contracting out on the cost efficiency and resource allocation of motor bus and demand response services. For motor bus service, results indicate no difference in cost between in-house and fully contracted operations. Contracting has a weak curvilinear association to total cost, suggesting that the most cost-efficient agencies either fully contract or they provide full in-house service. In contrast, demand respo...
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作者：Reenock, Christopher M.; Gerber, Brian J.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; West Virginia University
摘要：Under political uncertainty, legislative coalitions have incentives to insulate policy from future coalitions. While there is evidence of legislators' use of agency design to insulate the bureaucracy from elected officials, little is known about the ultimate consequences of such design choices on the policy participation of interest groups. How such design choices affect group access is important because of the centrality of groups in providing both bureaucratic accountability and information ...
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作者：Wood, B. Dan; Marchbanks, Miner P., III
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：The president's role as chief executive depends on the quality and tenure of political appointees who assist with the constitutional charge to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. This study explores the determinants of the duration of political appointee service. Using an agency theory framework, we propose that appointee tenure depends on financial incentives, executive-legislative conflict, solidary, and material benefits offered by the president, as well as implicit incentives t...
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作者：Llorens, Jared J.; Wenger, Jeffrey B.; Kellough, J. Edward
作者单位：University of Kansas; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：In the past, researchers in the field of public administration have been hindered in their ability to study trends in the representation of women and minorities in state government due to limitations in data availability. This article develops an alternative approach to examining the representation of women and minorities in state government bureaucracies over the period from 1987 to 2002. Based on estimates constructed using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Current Population Survey, our analy...
