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作者：Ebinger, Falk; Veit, Sylvia; Fromm, Nadin
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business; Universitat Kassel
摘要：Politicization has an ambivalent reputation among public administration scholars. While considered an effective instrument to safeguard political control over ministerial bureaucracy, partisanship of senior civil servants is likewise associated with patronage and is deemed detrimental to professionalism and meritocracy. To scrutinize this contradiction, the article examines how the party-political background of senior civil servants influences their decision-making behaviour. Two theoretically...
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作者：Heidbreder, Eva G.; Stadelmann-Steffen, Isabelle; Thomann, Eva; Sager, Fritz
作者单位：Otto von Guericke University; University of Bern; University of Exeter; University of Bern
摘要：The rising number of referendums on EU matters, such as the Brexit and the Catalonian independence votes, highlight the increasing importance of referendums as a problem-solving mechanism in the EU. We argue that the Swiss case provides essential insights into understanding the dynamics behind referendums, which are often lacking when referendums are called for in the EU. Referendums in EU member states on EU matters differ substantially from those in the Swiss context. Nevertheless, proponent...
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作者：Thatcher, Mark
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Luiss Guido Carli University
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作者：Hassan, Shahidul; DeHart-Davis, Leisha; Jiang, Zhongnan
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine
摘要：The intentional withholding of critical work-related information can have serious negative consequences in public organizations. Yet, few studies have examined why public employees intentionally remain silent about problems and how to prevent such behaviour. This article provides insights into how managers may lower employee silence in government organizations. We develop a model that suggests that empowering leadership by frontline supervisors reduces public employee silence, by improving emp...
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作者：Tosun, Jale; De Francesco, Fabrizio; Peters, B. Guy
作者单位：Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg; University of Strathclyde; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：The problem-solving capacity and problem-generating potential of multilevel systems entail the need for the delegation of authority. When the problem concerned is about how to put an abstract policy concept into a practicable policy tool, the choice of the respective delegation trajectory depends on the policy models or the policy-relevant knowledge that the respective political levels can supply. When regarding the European Union (EU) level as the starting point of knowledge creation and dele...
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作者：Powell, Martin
作者单位：University of Birmingham
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作者：Steen, Trui; Schott, Carina
作者单位：KU Leuven; Utrecht University
摘要：Public sector employees are expected to perform well in a work environment that is characterized by a variety of challenges. This Symposium aims to shed light on how environmental changes impact the shared identity, attitudes and behaviour of public sector employees; how public sector employees take charge of continuous change and deal with challenges in their work environment; and how organizations can help employees to tackle such work-related challenges. We identify four specific gaps in li...
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作者：Kroeger, Sandra
作者单位：University of Exeter
摘要：Are the interest groups (IGs) that constitute European umbrella organizations capable of cooperating in a way that contributes to the throughput legitimacy of the EU? To answer this question, the representativeness of supranational actors is developed as the central criteria of throughput legitimacy, thereby reconfiguring throughput legitimacy as a two-level concept. Representativeness is operationalized as consisting of regular contacts between the constituent and the umbrella organization as...
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作者：Teasdale, Simon; Dey, Pascal
作者单位：Glasgow Caledonian University; Grenoble Ecole Management
摘要：This article makes a case for paying greater attention to how informal relationships between government officials and civil society practitioners impact processes of public value creation. Drawing on data from a five-year qualitative longitudinal study, we illuminate how civil society practitioners deviate from the formal objectives of social enterprise policies in order to create what they see as having public value. Through a process of theory elaboration, we demonstrate how government offic...
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作者：Genet, Roger
