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作者：Cohen, Nissim; Aviram, Neomi F.
作者单位：University of Haifa
摘要：Linking street-level bureaucracy with policy entrepreneurship is a new, ongoing trend in the literature. We claim that in various cases one must consider street-level policy entrepreneurship in order to fully understand policy processes. Therefore, we call on public policy and administration scholars to devote more resources to this important link. The symposium will promote our understanding of this still underresearched area. We will explore both theoretically and empirically how bureaucrats...
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作者：Lee, Don S.; Park, Soonae
作者单位：University of Nottingham; Seoul National University (SNU)
摘要：The question of who controls the bureaucracy has been widely debated in the political science and public administration literatures. However, to whom bureaucrats are responsive and to what extent are relatively unknown, particularly outside the US. To understand how organizational behaviour changes according to external political environments, we leverage a unique setting, that of the 2016 presidential impeachment in South Korea. We analyse original experimental data from more than 1,000 civil...
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作者：Muthomi, Frankline
作者单位：Northern Illinois University
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作者：Sievert, Martin
作者单位：University of Mannheim
摘要：Research on symbolic representation suggests that citizen-state interactions might benefit from public organizations' representativeness. Recent experiments on symbolic gender representation provide contradictory findings regarding the influence on citizens' co-production intentions. This study conducts a wide replication based on new data to reexamine the positive impact of symbolic gender representation identified by Riccucci et al. (2016, Public Administration Review, 76(1), pp. 121-130). T...
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作者：Thomas, M. Blair
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Valdosta State University
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作者：Aviv, Inbal; Gal, John; Weiss-Gal, Idit
作者单位：Bar Ilan University; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Tel Aviv University
摘要：Knowledge on street-level bureaucrats as policy entrepreneurs is in its infancy. This article contributes to this emerging field by examining three cases of successful efforts by social workers employed by local social services in Israel to introduce local policy change. These processes varied in the issues that they addressed and the length of time that the policy process took. In each case, a small number of low- and meso-street level community social workers were identified as policy entrep...
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作者：Shams, Farshid
作者单位：Lakehead University
摘要：This article analyses how non-managerial professionals in public service organizations experience the tension between managerial and professional institutional logics and manage to minimize it through identity work. By studying how academics in ten Canadian public universities talk about their routine work activities, it is found that they interpret the institutional contradictions between these logics as threats to their identities and mitigate them by undertaking discursive strategies to aut...
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作者：Wei, Yuming; Guo, Yue; Su, Jun
作者单位：Tsinghua University; Beijing Normal University
摘要：The purpose of this study is to explore the characteristics of local government's reputation management in response to public protests under the dual pressure from higher-level authorities and the public. This study connects reputation management theory to the literature on local governments in the dual pressure dilemma. By comparing three cases of how local governments respond to public protests against nuclear facilities in China, we conclude that different pressures perceived by local gover...
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作者：Arnold, Gwen
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Policy entrepreneurs-individuals who champion a policy and engage in intense advocacy to secure it-are most frequently characterized as political elites or individuals well connected to such elites. However, an emerging literature suggests that street-level bureaucrats who deliver government services to the public can also prosecute policy entrepreneurship. There has been little investigation of how these actors differ from elite-level policy entrepreneurs who focus on agenda-setting and initi...
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作者：Bauhr, Monika; Carlitz, Ruth
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; Tulane University
摘要：Transparency has been widely promoted as a tool for improving public service delivery; however, empirical evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that the influence of transparency on service provision is contingent on the nature of the service. Specifically, we argue that transparency is more likely to improve the quality of service provision when street-level discretion is high. Discretion increases information asymmetries, and, in the absence of transparency, allows officials to target public ...
