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作者：Kang, Seong C.; Chang, Ahrum; Williams, Brian N.
作者单位：New Mexico State University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Virginia
摘要：Many representative bureaucracy studies examine outcomes in the context of passive and active representation, but relatively few have investigated the effects of passive representation on outcomes for the organization as a whole. To address this gap, we analyze data from a national law enforcement survey in the United States on formal citizen complaints regarding allegations of excessive use of physical force. This measure aligns with a three-dimensional accountability framework consisting of ...
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作者：Schmidthuber, Lisa; Hilgers, Dennis; Randhawa, Krithika
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business; Johannes Kepler University Linz; University of Technology Sydney
摘要：Government organizations increasingly use crowdsourcing platforms to interact with citizens and integrate their requests in designing and delivering public services. Drawing on attribution theory, this study asks how the causal attributions of the government response to a citizen request affect continued participation in crowdsourcing platforms. To test our hypotheses, we use a 7-year dataset of both online requests from citizens to government and government responses to citizen requests. We f...
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作者：Tavares, Antonio F.; Pires, Sara Moreno; Teles, Filipe
作者单位：Universidade do Minho; Universidade de Aveiro
摘要：The Ombudsman is one of the most relevant and institutionalized tools to give voice to citizens, so they can express their dissatisfaction with local public services. The literature has yet to produce a systematic explanation for the variation in complaints to the national Ombudsman. This article uses classic literature from public administration and public policy to consider arguments of voice, responsiveness and alternative policy venues concerning the role of the Ombudsman in citizen compla...
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作者：Jungblut, Marc; Jungblut, Jens
作者单位：University of Munich; University of Oslo
摘要：Using a neo-institutional framework, this study investigates how German police use Twitter for their communication. This is relevant, because the police increasingly use social media to bypass the media's gatekeeping function and attain increased agency in communication activities. However, little is known about their different communication strategies and their impact on user engagement. The analysis is based on an automated content analysis of all tweets (N = 137,771) sent out by the German ...
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作者：Hartley, Jean
作者单位：Open University - UK
摘要：This article argues for a population level of analysis, addressing a theoretical and empirical gap and enabling the analysis of transition, tempo, and timing at the macro level. The article examines four theories of population-level innovation: population ecology, neo-institutional theory, innovation diffusion, and population-level learning theory. A population-level empirical study of innovation and organizational learning addresses three research questions: the first and second examine patte...
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作者：Askim, Jostein; Houlberg, Kurt; Klausen, Jan Erling
作者单位：University of Oslo
摘要：Mergers incentivize local governments to ease their fiscal policies before the merger is implemented. This incentive is powerful: it is known that local governments start easing fiscal policies even before they know for sure that a merger will occur and even if merging is what they want. Based on a study of Norwegian municipalities, this article shows that irrespective of whether local governments face certain or potential mergers, their fiscal easing is manifested primarily in budget overruns...
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作者：Yesilkagit, Kutsal; Bezes, Philippe; Fleischer, Julia
作者单位：Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University; University of Potsdam
摘要：In this article, we examine the effects of political change on name changes of units within central government ministries. We expect that changes regarding the policy position of a government will cause changes in the names of ministerial units. To this end we formulate hypotheses combining the politics of structural choice and theories of portfolio allocation to examine the effects of political changes at the cabinet level on the names of intra-ministerial units. We constructed a dataset cont...
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作者：Foged, Soren K.
摘要：Are local governments' resources distributed differently during low as compared to high fiscal stress? Based on a proposed theoretical framework of public budgeting, focusing on the power relations between priority setters and spending advocates, two opposing hypotheses on this question are formulated. Using regression analysis, the two hypotheses are tested on the allocation of spending in seven policy areas of all 98 Danish municipalities from 2008 to 2015, which was a period that saw both a...
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作者：Hendriks, Frank
作者单位：Tilburg University
摘要：This article advances our understanding of the key values for democratic-governance innovation by integrating two important, yet divergent, discourses-the one on democratic innovations, the other on governance innovations-thus capitalizing on their mutually reinforcing potential. The result is an integrative framework of core values, related normative coordinates, and key questions for improving democratic governance. The integrative values framework refines our understanding of the fundamenta...
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作者：LaFrance, Casey
作者单位：Western Illinois University
