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作者:Oliveira, Eloy; Abner, Gordon; Lee, Shinwoo; Suzuki, Kohei; Hur, Hyunkang; Perry, James L.
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Incheon National University; Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Indiana University System; Indiana University Kokomo; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要:In October 2020, President Donald Trump sought to convert many US federal civil servants to at-will employees by executive order. Trump's initiative, referred to as Schedule F, has stimulated a partisan debate about dismantling the merit system in the US federal government. A substantial international body of evidence has developed during the last three decades about the effects of administrative practices associated with meritocracy and the likely consequences of changes to civil service syst...
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作者:Elias, Maria Veronica
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要:Important research questions in public administration and management cannot be studied through the scientific method. A fundamental example is how public administrators utilize their discretion and judgment in their everyday work. Inquiring into the process of administrative practice has been characterized as opening the black box of public administration and policy implementation-that is, how people in public administration and management situations do what they do. This paper argues that exp...
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作者:AbouAssi, Khaldoun; Prince, William; Johnston, Jocelyn M.
作者单位:American University; American University
摘要:This article addresses whether perceived goal agreement matters for cross-sectoral collaboration outcomes. Using original survey data from Lebanon that compares the perceptions of local governcment and nonprofit leaders, the findings indicate perceived goal agreement is salient and linked to judgments that collaboration meets its objectives. The article also examines perceptions of goal agreement as it relates to social (trust) and process (power-sharing) collaboration outcomes and find it to ...
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作者:O'Connor, Clementine Hill; Smith, Katherine; Hughes, Ceri; Meier, Petra; Purshouse, Robin
作者单位:University of Glasgow; University of Strathclyde; University of Manchester; University of Sheffield
摘要:Advocates of inclusive growth claim it provides policymakers with a means of combining economic success with social inclusivity, making it highly attractive across a wide range of settings. Here, we explore how three UK policy organizations (a devolved national government, a city region combined authority, and a local council) are pursuing inclusive growth goals. Drawing on 51 semistructured interviews, documentary analysis and policy ethnography, we argue that inclusive growth is a classic ch...
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作者:Reyes-Gonzalez, Jose Antonio; Agneessens, Filip; Esteve, Marc
作者单位:University of London; University College London; University of Trento; Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE)
摘要:In governance networks, some actors might have more influence than others in the group's collective decision-making. This paper investigates whether an actor's prosocial and/or self-interested motivations to participate in a governance network help predict its level of influence in the group. We argue that information exchange is an important mediator in this relationship because an actor's tendency to actively diffuse information will depend on its motivations; while other participants being ...
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作者:Zhu, Jiangnan; Xiao, Hanyu; Wu, Bin
作者单位:University of Hong Kong; Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK); Hunan University
摘要:This study explores how big data technologies can create an information commons shared by all policy stakeholders to alleviate the corruption and information asymmetries long endemic to poverty alleviation programs. We argue that the information commons can transform discrete data first into information with clear policy purposes and then into actionable knowledge. This process increases bureaucratic competence by improving policy accuracy and the efficiency of bureaucratic coordination and au...
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作者:Yi, Hongtao; Liu, Weixing; Ma, Liang
作者单位:Renmin University of China; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Tsinghua University
摘要:Self-organizing networks and designed networks are important subjects of network research, but the extant literature explores them in isolation, with limited attention paid to their relationship. And many studies on self-organizing and designed networks are based on Western contexts. This article expands the network literature through analyzing the influence of designed networks on the formation of self-organizing interlocal learning network in the context of China. Based on the interlocal lea...
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作者:Chen, Yiying; Lu, Jiahuan
作者单位:Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark
摘要:In the field of government contracting research, whether and to what extent political ideology drives government contracting has been a subject of ongoing debate for decades. This study conducts a comprehensive meta-analysis, incorporating 418 effect sizes drawn from 68 previous studies spanning over three decades. The findings indicate that right-wing political ideology generally yields a significant, positive effect on driving contracting out. Moreover, meta-regression analysis suggests that...
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作者:Yang, Wenhui; Zhao, Siyuan
作者单位:Peking University
摘要:This study proposes an organization-person framework and examines whether management of public officials shapes capable young elites' preferences of government jobs. Using a conjoint experiment in China, we find that monetary and nonmonetary traits of governments jobs alter capable young elites' motivations to engage in public service. In particular, merit-based selection rule and high wages attract more capable young elites to serve in public services. In contrast, campaign-style corruption i...
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作者:Boon, Jan; Wynen, Jan; Daelemans, Walter; Lemmens, Jens; Verhoest, Koen
作者单位:Hasselt University; University of Antwerp; University of Antwerp; University of Antwerp
摘要:The news media frame political debate about public agencies, and enable legislators with incomplete information to monitor and act upon agency (mal)performance. While studies show that the news media matters for parliamentary attention, the contingent nature of this relation has been understudied. Building on agenda-setting theory, this study theorizes that the effect of newspaper coverage is contingent on the sentiment of coverage, the majority vs. opposition role of legislators, and the locu...