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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：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...
