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作者：Barbera, Carmela; Jones, Martin; Korac, Sanja; Saliterer, Iris; Steccolini, Ileana
作者单位：Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; Nottingham Trent University; University of Nottingham; University of Klagenfurt; University of Freiburg; Newcastle University - UK
摘要：The recent economic and fiscal crisis provides an opportunity for learning lessons of general and practical relevance about how governments face shocks affecting their financial conditions. This article draws on the resilience concept to investigate the organizational capacities that are deployed and/or built by local governments (LGs) to respond to such shocks, looking at their combinations and interactions with environmental conditions. The article presents the results of a multiple-case ana...
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作者：Ege, Jorn
摘要：International Public Administrations (IPAs), that is, the secretariats of international organizations, are important actors in global governance. This article develops a new typology of IPAs that captures the potential influence of these bureaucratic bodies on international policy-making. The main argument is that when conceptualizing the varying roles and potential policy impact of IPAs, it is useful to distinguish between their ability to develop autonomous preferences (autonomy of will) on ...
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作者：Carter, David P.
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：Voluntary regulatory programmes embody the complex interactions that exist between public organizations and nongovernmental entities in contemporary public administration. This article draws attention to regulatee choice' in certification programmes, in which programme participants choose from among certifier alternatives. In the context of US organic regulation, regulatee choice is examined through the factors that farmers weigh when selecting from among public, nonprofit, and private certifi...
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作者：Holm, Jakob Majlund
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：Performance evaluations are a vital part of how public managers react to performance information. Yet, we know little about the way evaluations unfold and the reactions they produce. This article examines the idea that historical and political aspiration levels guide evaluations by labelling performance results as either a failure or success. Thus, the same result could lead to different evaluations and reactions depending on the aspiration level. The study also tests the idea that a negativit...
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作者：Piatak, Jaclyn; Mohr, Zachary; Leland, Suzanne
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte
摘要：With the rise of third-party government, the lines between the sectors have blurred as has accountability. Public service delivery failures can erode government legitimacy and trust, but who do citizens blame when something goes wrong? To answer this question, we employ an experiment to see whether citizens hold local governments and private contractors equally accountable for service delivery failure. We also examine how they expect the employees to be held accountable. Results demonstrate th...
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作者：Johnston, Karen
作者单位：University of Portsmouth
摘要：The nature of work and traditional notions of the public sector have been changing with increasing collaborative governance and delivery of public services among public, private and voluntary sector organizations. In the UK, governments at national and devolved levels of government have adopted collaborative governance for service delivery through various networks and partnerships. This article explores collaborative governance from a gender perspective, specifically the perceptions of women i...
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作者：Ohberg, Patrik; Christiansen, Peter Munk; Niklasson, Birgitta
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; Aarhus University
摘要：There is limited empirical research on the extent to which politicized recruitment of ministerial advisers affects the quality of the policy process. In this article we take a novel step by looking at two possible consequences of increased political recruitment for the policy process: administrative politicization and contestability. We deploy a Most Similar Systems comparison of Denmark and Sweden and include survey answers from 657 civil servants in managerial positions. We find that politic...
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作者：Levitats, Zehavit; Vigoda-Gadot, Eran
作者单位：University of Haifa
摘要：We investigate the role of emotions in the public sector and their relation with work outcomes typical of public arenas. We focus on the emotional intelligence of public healthcare staff and its potential impact on public service motivation, job satisfaction, affective commitment and the quality of service to citizens. Using data from 200 nurses in a large Israeli public hospital, we examine a mixed model of direct and indirect relationships. The findings support direct positive relationships ...
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作者：Craft, Jonathan
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：Empirical examinations of partisan advisers detail significant differences in their policy work, influence, and their patterns of interactions with other policy actors. This raises important implications for their potential contributions to policy failure avoidance. Using recent qualitative data from elite interviews in Canada, this study finds that advisers' policy work contributes to political policy failure avoidance as policy is developed. The findings help unpack the types and nature of p...
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作者：van Engen, Nadine A. M.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：Public administration research is becoming increasingly quantitative. As seen in psychological and managerial research, the result is a growing demand for valid and reliable measures. Given the tradition of contextually embedded research in public administration - where research should cover multiple factors to find useful answers to real-life problems - survey research should ideally incorporate many measures. This is driving a need for short measures that do not compromise on validity and re...
