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作者：Stazyk, Edmund C.; Davis, Randall S.; Portillo, Shannon
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY; Southern Illinois University System; Southern Illinois University; University of Kansas
摘要：Interest in public values has grown considerably over the past two decades. Much of this attention reflects a growing awareness that public values hold considerable significance for citizens and public employees. Yet, despite the rapid expansion of research on public values, we still know little about the role of race in shaping and determining public employees' values preferences. To begin remedying this gap, this article examines whether minority and white public managers in large US local g...
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作者：Schlipphak, Bernd
作者单位：University of Munster
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作者：Caillier, James Gerard
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
摘要：Research has long found that high-quality workplace relationships have a beneficial impact on employees and organizations. Although these studies have developed elaborate models to examine high-quality workplace relationships, none were found to explore the association between high-quality workplace relationships and Job stress/exhaustion, commitment, and social impact. To fill this void in the literature, models were developed to explain the expected association that these employee attitudes ...
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作者：Hustedt, Thurid; Danken, Thomas
作者单位：Free University of Berlin; University of Potsdam
摘要：By investigating two German inter-departmental committees, this article shows that the policy output of these coordination bodies depends on the specific institutional logic evoked throughout the coordination process. While in one of the groups a policy logic prevailed and a joint coordination output was achieved, the other was dominated by a political logic and proved unable to achieve agreement. The article contributes to research on government coordination by showing that actor orientations...
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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：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：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：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 ...
