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作者:Placek, Michal
作者单位:Charles University Prague
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作者:van der Does, Ramon
作者单位:Universite Catholique Louvain
摘要:Public administrations increasingly try to find new ways to involve citizens in policy-making. However, many democratic innovations draw in only a fraction of the public. Why? I hypothesize that we observe such low participation rates because there is often not enough at stake for citizens. I test this with a preregistered survey experiment on citizens' intentions to participate in participatory budgets in the Netherlands. I fielded the experiment among a sample of citizens that had just exper...
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作者:Young, Sarah L.; Tanner, James
作者单位:University System of Georgia; Kennesaw State University; University of North Georgia
摘要:New Public Governance theory increases citizen participation and expands bureaucrats' roles in the work of government. Citizen participation creates new mechanisms for citizens to influence the policy process. Bureaucrats' expanded roles allow for broader bureaucratic discretion over policy implementation. When citizens' and bureaucrats' views on public management decisions collide, whose views prevail? Do citizen volunteers or bureaucrats have greater influence over public decisions? We answe...
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作者:Song, Jinbo; Liu, Hongyan; Sun, Yan; Song, Lingchuan
作者单位:Dalian University of Technology; Dalian University of Technology
摘要:In governing public-private partnerships (PPPs), transferring control rights to the private sectors and building trust among partners are recognized as solutions to improve efficiency and adaptability. However, what contexts would fit into the adoption of these solutions remains unclear. Building on the relevant literature on project attributes and project environments, this article divides the context into several crucial factors: asset specificity, project publicness, institutional completen...
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作者:Eshuis, Jasper; de Boer, Noortje; Klijn, Erik Hans
作者单位:Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Utrecht University
摘要:This article analyses whether the emotional intelligence (EI) of street-level bureaucrats, in this case inspectors, predicts their individual performance. It explores whether EI predicts the aggression that inspectors face and whether this explains the relation between EI and performance. Our survey among 547 inspectors, measuring their (self) perceptions, shows that inspectors' ability to appraise others' emotions and use their emotions intelligently (i.e., motivating themselves and maintaini...
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作者:de Boer, Thijs
作者单位:Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要:Accountability-seeking behaviors of public agencies are said to be motivated, among others, by attempts at pre-empting stricter mandatory provisions, logic of appropriateness motives, Machiavellian opportunism, reputational considerations, and a perceived need to compensate for the inadequacy of traditional arrangements. However, we do not know when a particular rationale, or a combination thereof, prevails. This study therefore examines how public agencies seek accountability, to whom and for...
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作者:You, Jongeun; Heikkila, Tanya; Weible, Christopher M.; Kim, Serena; Park, Kyudong; Yordy, Jill; Smolinski, Sharon L.
作者单位:University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver; Kwangwoon University
摘要:Across the world, public administration and policy decisions are related to diverse levels of conflict and attention. However, the degree and variance of conflict and attention remain largely unspecified. This article examines how types of energy infrastructure and characteristics of project location are associated with the distribution of conflict and attention around the energy infrastructure siting process. Our empirical focus is on gas pipelines, electricity transmission lines, solar power...
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作者:Moore, Paige L.
作者单位:North Carolina State University
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作者:Sun, Shuo; Andrews, Rhys
作者单位:Cardiff University
摘要:Decentralizing fiscal power to locally elected governments is often regarded as beneficial for public service efficiency. However, questions remain about whether decentralizing fiscal responsibilities work well in countries lacking political decentralization. In China, fiscal decentralization has significantly strengthened the role of local governments in the provision of healthcare services, but evidence of its efficiency effects is scarce. To cast light on this issue, this study investigates...
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作者:Liu, Yixin; Tan, Chao
作者单位:State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要:Can network administrative organizations (NAOs) improve networks' ability to solve complex social and environmental problems? This is a classical question in collaborative governance. The public management literature examines collaborative outcomes at either the organization or the entire network level, but has not addressed edge level outcomes to evaluate structured interactions among network actors. Therefore, we investigate outcomes in an interjurisdictional area that reflect collaborative ...