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作者：deLeon, P; deLeon, L
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver
摘要：One of the earliest topics addressed by policy analysts was public policy implementation. Starting with the seminal work of Jeffrey Pressman and Aaron Wildavsky, policy implementation has burgeoned from a largely overlooked interest to perhaps the policy analysis growth industry over the last thirty years. However, even though an enormous set of books and articles deals with implementation, it has been described by some as leading to an intellectual dead end because of its problematic relation...
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作者：Wise, CR; Freitag, CM
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：For most of the twentieth century, public land managers in the United States suppressed virtually all wildland fires. This suppression philosophy contributed to unhealthy ecosystems and allowed a dangerous buildup of burnable vegetation. As a result of generations of fire suppression, recent years have seen an increased incidence of catastrophic fires in American wildlands. Following some of the worst fire seasons in American history, representatives from several federal agencies promulgated t...
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作者：Petter, J; Byrnes, P; Choi, DL; Fegan, F; Miller, R
作者单位：Southern Illinois University System; Southern Illinois University
摘要：Empowerment of public employees has been touted as an important mediating step in improving public organizational outcomes, yet such a relationship depends on an assumption that employees value what is offered as empowerment. This qualitative study explored the assumption through in-depth interviews of street-level bureaucrats in a large state human service agency. The interviews support previous research that empowerment is multidimensional; five patterns in empowerment were found. Empowermen...
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作者：Vigoda, E
作者单位：University of Haifa
摘要：This study examined the relationship between public-sector performance (PSP) and several aspects of citizenship involvement as perceived by 260 households in a large Israeli city. Participants reported their perceptions of local municipality operation (e.g., human quality of public servants, initiation and creativity, morality, and ethical standards), resultant organizational performance (e.g., satisfaction with operation and satisfaction with services), and two types of citizenry values: acti...
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作者：Hood, C
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：This article aims to link together three themes in reform of public bureaucracy, focusing mainly on developed Westminster-type systems. The three themes are control in and over public bureaucracies, variety of types of public-service bargain between senior public officials and other actors in the political system, and strategic action or cheating over such bargains. The first part of the article identifies the idea of thermostatic control over the public service (by arms-length steering, trans...
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作者：Stark, A
作者单位：University of Toronto
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作者：Dawes, SS
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
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作者：Pandey, SK; Scott, PG
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Missouri State University
摘要：Although there has been a resurgence of interest in red-tape research, much of this research has the limited focus of testing for public private distinctions and has used a wide range of concepts and measures. In some ways, progress on substantive issues surrounding how to contend with red tape is stymied by the multiplicity of theoretical specifications and operational measures for red tape. Relatedly, the concept of red tape continues to be confounded with formalization. Therefore, this arti...
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作者：Dolan, J
作者单位：Macalester College
摘要：With women's growing presence across all branches of government, scholars recently have begun to assess whether or not female political elites alter the substantive policy outputs of government. Despite clear and convincing evidence that officials in the fourth branch of government influence policy making (Meier 1993b; Rourke 1984; Aberbach, Putnam, and Rockman 1981), most research on women's distinct impact has focused on those in legislative office. Very little is known about female represen...
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作者：Baez, B; Abolafia, MY
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：This study develops a model for the analysis of institutional change in public-sector organizations. We use sense-making theory to explore the role of bureaucratic entrepreneurial action in institutional change. Metaphors from music composition illustrate the pace and depth of institutional change. We elaborate this analytic model by examining a major institutional change: housing for the developmentally disabled. The data trace changes in the institutionalized practices of a large state agenc...
