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作者：Jimenez, Benedict S.
作者单位：Northeastern University
摘要：This research examines the effects of three defining features of bureaucratic organizations - hierarchy, centralization of decision-making, and the formalization of administrative procedures and rules - on the fiscal health of city governments in the US, It utilizes data from a national survey of top appointed city officials in the US to measure the bureaucratic features of city governments, and assesses budgetary solvency using actual financial data from audited financial reports. Using facto...
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作者：Ingrams, Alex
作者单位：Tilburg University
摘要：In the United States, there is mounting political pressure on public agencies to publish internal data. But transparency policy innovation brings a unique set of legal and normative challenges regarding how sensitive information will be used. It is therefore an open question as to what legal-normative conditions favour innovation. Are there specific kinds of laws, rules, or normative conditions that are related to adoption of new, potentially risky, transparency policies? In this article, qual...
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作者：Borry, Erin L.
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Birmingham
摘要：Rules help ensure consistent employee behaviour, yet rule bending occurs in public organizations every day. Previous research indicates that rule bending is influenced by organizational structure and personal characteristics (DeHart-Davis 2007). This present study considers the influence of organizational norms on rule bending by exploring the impact of ethical climate, which signals to employees the best course of action when faced with situations that are ethical in nature (Victor and Cullen...
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作者：Tepe, Markus; Vanhuysse, Pieter
作者单位：Carl von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg; University of Southern Denmark
摘要：This article explores the associations between self-reported Public Service Motivation (PSM) and preferred job traits, study choice, and observable prosocial behaviour. We studied three subject pools covering over 250 university students in Germany. We used laboratory experiments with monetary rewards to measure altruism, fairness, strategic fairness, and cooperativeness, and a post-experimental survey on subjects' PSM. Higher levels of PSM were not associated with studying public administrati...
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作者：Hjortskov, Morten
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：Citizen satisfaction surveys are used extensively throughout the public sector to assess the performance of public services and to inform decision-makers. Recent research points to cognitive biases that may occur in citizens' perceptions of performance of public services, but we know little about possible biases in the collection of these data. This shortcoming is addressed by investigating the priming and context effects that can arise from the structure of citizen surveysfor example, from th...
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作者：Schuster, Christian
作者单位：University of London; University College London
摘要：Introducing merit recruitment of public servants is a central good governance reform. To move towards merit in practice, legislation which mandates merit recruitment is considered a necessary but insufficient first step by many scholars and practitioners. Merit-based civil service legislation should thus be sought before reform in practice. This article challenges this reasoning. It argues that merit laws are neither sufficient nor necessary: they leave the incumbent's possibility frontier for...
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作者：Zambrano-Gutierrez, Julio Cesar; Rutherford, Amanda; Nicholson-Crotty, Sean
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：A growing body of literature explores the process of coproduction by citizens and government employees in providing goods and services, yet research that attempts to link coproduction to organizational performance offers contradictory findings. It is possible that these conflicting results are a consequence of trying to compare distinct categories of coproduction. This study identifies types of coproduction, classified by which organizational tasks citizens can influence during stages of polic...
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作者：Maccio, Laura; Cristofoli, Daniela
作者单位：Universita della Svizzera Italiana; University of Milano-Bicocca
摘要：This article focuses on interorganizational networks in an attempt to contribute to the research on network endurance. Specifically, we will focus on service delivery networks created to endure, and explore the impact on network endurance of some key variables, such as the configuration of the modes of network governance, the formalization of coordination mechanisms and the concentration of managerial skills in the network manager. Our results show that a Network Administrative Organization al...
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作者：Zang, Xiaowei; Musheno, Michael
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; University of Oregon
摘要：This study of the state frontline workforce breaks new ground by conducting an institutional analysis of rule abidance in the People's Republic of China (PRC). We draw upon a survey (n = 1,721) of Chengguan officers, the main players in regulatory enforcement of civil law in urban China, to explore the influence of autocratic one-party rule on the meaning of and variation in rule abidance in China. The majority of Chengguan officers are rule followers, and demographic differences show little d...
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作者：Boon, Jan; Wynen, Jan
作者单位：University of Antwerp; KU Leuven
摘要：Governments across the globe try to rebalance their budgets by rationalizing overhead operations. When overhead-reducing policies are adopted, it is important to understand why some central government organizations have a higher overhead than others, and why organizational models to produce overhead efficiencies are used to different degrees. This study focuses on the Flemish context to analyse differences between central government organizations in the size and organization of two overhead pr...
