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作者:Shaw, Richard; Eichbaum, Chris
作者单位:Massey University; Victoria University Wellington
摘要:One of the strands in the growing scholarship on political advisers in parliamentary democracies proposes that advisers can reduce the risk of civil service politicization by furnishing partisan advice to ministers, freeing civil servants to focus on the provision of expert competence. This benign narrative generates a significant hypothesis, which is that the institutionalization of the partisan role diminishes the risk of civil service politicization. That hypothesis has yet to be fully test...
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作者:Benish, Avishai; Mattei, Paola
作者单位:Hebrew University of Jerusalem; University of Milan
摘要:Hybridity has become a central characteristic of accountability in public governance. Contemporary service delivery is increasingly defined by the mixing and layering of public, market and social accountability regimes operating as overlapping 'hybrid' accountability arrangements. Although hybrid accountability is not a new phenomenon, recent trends have accelerated the process of hybridization, particularly in welfare state governance. In this symposium, we seek to advance our understanding o...
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作者:Christensen, Tom; Gavrila, S. Gabriela; Ma, Liang; Ramirez, Francisco O.
作者单位:University of Oslo; Renmin University of China; Stanford University
摘要:In this study, we analyse data from 176 Chinese universities to examine the use of reputation symbols on official websites. We find that Chinese universities prefer professional and performative symbols more than moral symbols. Reputation symbols are mainly observed in teaching, research, history and strategy categories, whereas their use in internal operations and the external environment is limited. A comparison with samples from the United States and Nordic countries indicates that their un...
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作者:Micheli, Pietro; Pavlov, Andrey
作者单位:University of Warwick; Cranfield University
摘要:Recent research in performance measurement has focused on the tension between two uses of performance information: 'passive', to ensure compliance, and 'purposeful', to improve services. This article presents an in-depth study of two public sector organizations in England and shows that the main tension may actually lie between a combined purposeful and passive use, and an exclusively passive one. This tension was most pronounced between organizational levels, where a combined use was dominant...
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作者:Egeberg, Morten
作者单位:University of Oslo; University of Oslo
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作者:Senk, Kaitlin
作者单位:Rice University
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作者:Chen, Can; Neshkova, Milena, I
作者单位:State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要:Both academicians and practitioners have advocated for increased fiscal transparency in government as a means of promoting budget discipline, improving functioning of the public sector, fostering greater accountability, and fighting the global menace of corruption. Despite worldwide calls for greater disclosure, empirical analyses of whether and how fiscal transparency actually affects governance outcomes are still limited. This study draws on public choice and principal-agent theories to demo...
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作者:James, Oliver; Jilke, Sebastian
作者单位:University of Exeter; Georgetown University
摘要:In public services that are tax funded, public goods are sometimes marketized by being delivered using private companies instead of public organizations. In addition, marketization reforms can entail service users being described as customers for the service rather than as citizens. We assess the effects of these aspects of marketization reforms on users' willingness to co-produce public services. First, service delivery using private companies risks reducing users' willingness to co-produce b...
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作者:Wang, Weijie; Sun, Rusi
作者单位:University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要:A common problem with using organizational performance as the dependent variable is the ignoring of feedback effect. The current conceptualization of the turnover-performance relationship is mostly unidirectional, focusing on how turnover affects organizational performance. Only a few scholars have investigated the possible reverse relationship between turnover and performance. Aiming to further the research on the feedback effect of organizational performance, this study employed cross-lagged...
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作者:Ahmad, Salman; Connolly, Ciaran; Demirag, Istemi
作者单位:Queens University Belfast; Keele University
摘要:Utilizing evidence from a United Kingdom (UK) road case study Private Finance Initiative (PFI) project, this article considers how the UK central government's infrastructure strategy is operationalized through accounting-based performance measures and incentive systems, and articulates how the adoption of such systems is moderated by trust practices. The findings indicate that initial government policy objectives, translated as performance indicators in the case study, failed to offer adequate...