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作者：Flink, Carla; Molina, Angel Luis, Jr.
作者单位：American University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix
摘要：The link between expenditures and organizational performance is central to our understanding of public sector governance. Despite various empirical and theoretical accounts of how organizations buffer or exploit financial situations to stabilize outcomes, the literature remains split on how money influences organizational performance. This study sheds new light on this puzzle by developing an analysis of clientele contexts, and how such contexts intervene in the relationship between expenditur...
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作者：Zhang, Liwei; Zhao, Ji; Dong, Weiwei
作者单位：Jilin University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：Street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) can act as policy entrepreneurs to cope with the dilemmas in policy implementation. However, there is insufficient knowledge about whether the strategies adopted by them that SLBs in the role of policy entrepreneurs are institution sensitive. In addition, there is insufficient knowledge regarding the elements that impel and support such entrepreneurial actions. Based on China's community governance, this article attempts to clarify the strategies employed by SLB...
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作者：Knill, Christoph; Steinbacher, Christina; Steinebach, Yves
作者单位：University of Munich
摘要：In response to societal demands, democratic governments constantly adopt new policies. As existing policies are rarely abandoned, policies accumulate over time. Policy accumulation bears the challenge of overburdening implementation bodies, hence undermining policy effectiveness. Any escape from this situation requires democratic governments to strike a balance between policy responsiveness and effectiveness. We posit that the extent to which countries are able to achieve this depends on the v...
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作者：Gofen, Anat; Lotta, Gabriela; Marchesini da Costa, Marcelo
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas A.C. (CIDE); Getulio Vargas Foundation; Insper
摘要：Imposing significant challenges for both street-level implementation and policy (re)design, crises alter the environment for street-level policy entrepreneurship (SLPE), wherein street-level bureaucrats engage in policy formulation processes to secure future policy outcomes. Nevertheless, like street-level implementation in general, SLPE is studied during ordinary times but rarely during crises. Focusing on community-health workers in Brazil during the Covid-19 crisis uncovered a defensive mot...
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作者：Igalla, Malika; Edelenbos, Jurian; van Meerkerk, Ingmar
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Increasingly, Western local governments are dealing with community-based initiatives (CBIs) of citizens providing public services. Municipalities possess critical resources CBIs generally lack, including subsidies, buildings, and exposure. There is still little knowledge on CBIs' factors for government support. Therefore, this study adopts an organizational perspective distinguishing among institutionalization (intraorganizational, e.g., organizational size and democratic legitimacy) and inter...
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作者：Deters, Henning; Falkner, Gerda
作者单位：Danube University Krems; University of Vienna
摘要：In the European Union (EU), agenda setting is formally centralized at the European Commission. During the last decade since the Lisbon Treaty, however, this agenda-setting monopoly was challenged by other institutions against the backdrop of the Treaty change, intergovernmental crisis management, politicization, and more informal legislative bargaining. This symposium therefore surveys the emerging agenda-setting powers of the EU's other main institutional actors in their relation to the Commi...
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作者：Thau, Mads; Mikkelsen, Maria Falk; Hjortskov, Morten; Pedersen, Mogens Jin
作者单位：Aarhus University; University of Copenhagen
摘要：Public decision-makers increasingly rely on satisfaction surveys to inform budget and policy decisions. Yet, our knowledge of whether, and under what conditions, this input from public service users provides valid performance information remains incomplete. Using a preregistered split-ballot experiment among government grant recipients in Denmark, this article shows that the ordering of survey questions can bias satisfaction measures even for highly experienced and professional respondents. We...
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作者：Geeraert, Arnout; Drieskens, Edith
作者单位：Utrecht University; KU Leuven
摘要：What explains the reversal of transnational private rule-making authority? Embedding constructivist insights within a rational principal-agent model, this article advances a five-step sequential process that nuances the traditional explanation of delegitimation. It argues that entrepreneurs must first successfully promote the belief that the high costs of ineffective private policies follow from the private rule-setter's flawed institutional attributes. Subsequently, a de-delegation solution t...
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作者：Fowler, Luke
作者单位：Boise State University
摘要：The author examines policy implementation as an exercise in coping with ambiguity (i.e., different ways of thinking about the same issues) on the one hand and uncertainty (i.e., lack of information) on the other. Functions are how implementers figure out the best way to make a policy work in practice and processes are how organizations formalize mechanisms that make behaviours more predictable. Using programme evaluation data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a mixed method...
