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作者：Wright, BE
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：This article reviews the literature on work motivation in the public sector, with careful attention to the underlying theoretical assumptions of this body of work and the empirical evidence it has generated. The topic of work motivation has received relatively little attention in the public sector; the research that does exist has been largely data driven, guided at best by theories that have not incorporated more contemporary research. In this article I will draw on current psychological rese...
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作者：Potoski, M; Woods, ND
作者单位：Iowa State University; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：This study examines how administrative procedures structure the degree of policy influence different governmental and nongovernmental groups exercise in states' air pollution control programs. Drawing on a variety of data, including a unique survey of state air pollution control agencies, our analysis shows that administrative procedures affect the degree of bureaucratic autonomy and level of influence legislatures and interest groups exercise in state air pollution programs. Overall, the resu...
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作者：Feiock, RC; Kim, JH
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：Recent theoretical work has applied transaction cost theories to the public sector. This article extends transaction cost theories of organization to an empirical examination of bureaucratic influences on local government development programs. Extant research has paid little attention to the role that administrative organizations, institutions, and bureaucracies play in the local development process. Administrative organization can shape development choices in two ways. First, form of governme...
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作者：Meier, KJ; O'Toole, LJ Jr
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：This manuscript provides the first systematic test of a formal theory of managing government programs in a network context (see O'Toole and Meier 1999). Using data from several hundred school districts in Texas, we create a measure of network management that reflects the time school superintendents interact with several sets of significant actors in the environment. We find that network management is not only related to overall organizational performance, it has positive impacts even in the pr...
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作者：Coggburn, JD
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要：Personnel deregulation has occupied a central place on the American reform agenda for several years. For example, formal calls for personnel deregulation can be traced to the National Academy of Public Administration (1983), the Volcker Commission (1989), the Winter Commission (1993), Reinventing Government (Osborne and Gaebler 1992), and most recently to the National Performance Review/National Partnership for Reinventing Government (1993). Deregulation represents an important topic for inqui...
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作者：Agranoff, R; McGuire, M
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University of North Texas System; University of North Texas Denton
摘要：As the use of networks in public management increases, more and larger questions expand this research arena. In many ways, public network management is in search of a paradigm equivalent to the hierarchical-organizational authority paradigm of bureaucratic management. We raise and offer preliminary answers to seven metaquestions that address the nature of network management tasks, group process in collaboration, flexibility of networks, self-responsibility and public agency accountability, the...
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作者：Moon, MJ; deLeon, P
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver
摘要：During the last decade, government reinvention along with the new public management (NPM) has driven a managerial reform wave toward market efficiency, entrepreneurship, and performance-based/benchmarking management in the public sector. Using an ICMA mailed survey of more than twelve hundred municipal governments in the United States, this study embarks on an exploratory study of municipal reinvention. The results suggest that reinvention values are widely held by chief city administrators, a...
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作者：DeLorenzo, L
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Jeff Gill and Kenneth J. Meier argue in their J-PART article Public Administration Research and Practice: A Methodological Manifesto that there is a crisis in public administration research. Public administration lags woefully behind political science and similar social scientific fields in its methodological sophistication. Part of the problem, they contend, is the misuse of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST); they suggest that NHST be abandoned altogether. They promote other method...
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作者：Dunn, DD; Legge, JS Jr
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：This study examines accountability and responsibility as they apply to local government managers in the United States. The Friedrich-Finer debate defined contrasting views of accountability and responsibility, with Finer advancing elected officials and Friedrich advancing the profession and public sentiment for establishing responsibility and accountability for nonelected officials. More recent scholars also include the courts, media, and more precise definitions of public sentiment in additio...
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作者：Meier, KJ; Bohte, J
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Oakland University
摘要：Studies of representative bureaucracy highlight both passive and active forms of representation. Passive representation refers to similarities in demographic characteristics between bureaucrats and client populations. Active representation refers to situations in which bureaucracies work to further the needs of a particular group of people. In this study, we examine the role employee discretion plays in linking passive and active forms of representation in a sample of Ax hundred school distric...
