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作者：Liston-Heyes, Catherine; Juillet, Luc
作者单位：University of Ottawa; University of Sussex
摘要：Since the 1980s, many governments expanded their administrative oversight systems, such as auditing and evaluation, in order to improve the efficiency, performance and accountability of their administration. Yet few studies empirically examine this audit explosion. Our study investigates its more recent manifestation. Using Canada as an exploratory case, we first assess whether the level of these oversight activities contracted or expanded in the last two decades. We then analyze the contents ...
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作者：Hesmert, Laura; Hattke, Fabian; Vogel, Rick
作者单位：University of Hamburg
摘要：Previous scholarship provides little insight into the differences between public and private leadership in people's a priori assumptions about leaders. We advance a socio-cognitive approach and examine how implicit social attributions to leaders are contingent on sector and performance cues. Participants completed the Semantic Misattribution Procedure to reveal implicit associations of traits with leaders in contrasting scenarios. Results show that sector cues affect such attributions, which i...
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作者：Schiff, Daniel S.; Schiff, Kaylyn Jackson; Pierson, Patrick
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Emory University
摘要：In the context of rising delegation of administrative discretion to advanced technologies, this study aims to quantitatively assess key public values that may be at risk when governments employ automated decision systems (ADS). Drawing on the public value failure framework coupled with experimental methodology, we address the need to measure and compare the salience of three such values-fairness, transparency, and human responsiveness. Based on a preregistered design, we administer a survey ex...
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作者：Gomes, Ricardo C.; Lisboa, Erika
作者单位：Getulio Vargas Foundation
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作者：Bang, Insik; Hollibaugh, Gary E.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：To what extent are elected legislators able to influence administrative decision making? Recent research has been divided on this question, with some studies suggesting legislators are effectively unable to influence administrative outcomes, whereas others suggesting influence is common. Here, we examine this question in the context of Pennsylvania's Abandoned and Orphan Well Plugging Program (WPP). Despite the WPP using objective evaluative criteria to prioritize which abandoned and orphan oi...
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作者：Berge, Dag Magne; Torsteinsen, Harald
作者单位：Molde University College; UiT The Arctic University of Tromso
摘要：Corporatization implies disintegration of public authority, leading to not only structural but also cultural differentiation of government, transforming it into a fragmented and hybrid governance system consisting of an authority and multiple autonomous or semi-autonomous operators. This article addresses corporatization at the local government level in Norway, exploring if and how this change in formal structure triggers the emergence of separate cultures in the operator entities. Described a...
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作者：Bernier, Luc; Juillet, Luc; Deschamps, Carl
作者单位：University of Ottawa
摘要：Public corporations have grown in popularity over the last 30 years, but the conditions that lead governments to create them are still debated. In this study, we draw on an original dataset of public organizations at the federal and provincial levels in Canada to test the prevalence of corporatization and the conditions associated with the creation of public corporations. Our results show that corporatization has been an important phenomenon in Canada over the last 30 years, but that the creat...
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作者：Bel, Germa; Esteve, Marc; Carlos Garrido, Juan; Luis Zafra-Gomez, Jose
作者单位：University of Barcelona; University of London; University College London; Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE); University of Granada
摘要：Public corporations have been constantly in the spotlight, with some commentators arguing that they can help governments provide better public services, and others insisting that their governance is simply too complex. Despite this ongoing debate, few studies have researched public corporation performance. The present study offers empirical evidence of the effects of various forms of corporatization on public service costs. In particular, it examines public service costs incurred under four di...
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作者：Hodgson, Damian E.; Bailey, Simon; Exworthy, Mark; Bresnen, Mike; Hassard, John; Hyde, Paula
作者单位：University of Sheffield; University of Kent; University of Birmingham; Manchester Metropolitan University; University of Manchester; Alliance Manchester Business School; University of Birmingham
摘要：Recent health care reforms in England, combined with financial austerity, have accelerated both corporatization and commercialization in the English National Health Service (NHS) and this has encouraged greater public sector entrepreneurialism (PSE). We advance this argument by examining the meaning and experience of corporatization in this sector, illustrating our argument with qualitative data from a specialist hospital at the forefront of this trend. We demonstrate how the policy and practi...
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作者：Aleksovska, Marija; Schillemans, Thomas
作者单位：Utrecht University
摘要：The necessity for public sector actors to manage multiple accountabilities in their work has been linked to a number of problems and failures, yet we lack an understanding of how multiple accountabilities affect the decision-making behavior of civil servants. Here we argue that the main issue is not only the existence of multiple forums as such but the presence of conflicting demands between multiple forums or within a single forum. Drawing on sociopsychological research, we develop hypotheses...
