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作者：Berman, Evan; Chen, Don-yun; Jan, Chung-yuang; Huang, Tong-yi
作者单位：National Chengchi University; National Chengchi University
摘要：In Taiwan's post-democratization, public managers reduced their leadership and initiative-taking, thereby creating concerns about public sector leadership. This article defines the concept of informal 'executive initiative understandings' (EIUs) between political appointees and career executives, and examines how such understandings affect public managers' efforts and agency leadership. Based on an in-person survey of Taiwan central government executives, findings show that: (1) about half of ...
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作者：Zhu, Xufeng
作者单位：Nankai University
摘要：Expert involvement is usually regarded as one of the causes of policy changes. However, how does the nature of policy change, in turn, influence expert involvement? This study constructs an analytical model by adopting and developing policy network and principal-agent theories, suggesting that expert involvement can be regarded as the result of the inherent characteristics of policy change in the Chinese policy process. Two key characteristics of policy change, namely `loss embeddedness' and '...
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作者：Guo, Chao; Zhang, Zhibin
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Nanyang Technological University; Nanyang Technological University
摘要：To what extent do China's non-profit and voluntary organizations have the capacities to represent effectively the interests of their constituents? In this paper, we examine the prevalence of various representational dimensions in these organizations. Our survey findings provide evidence that, other things being equal, an organization's levels of descriptive and participatory representation have a positive and significant impact on its levels of substantive and symbolic representation. Our find...
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作者：Su, Tsai-Tsu; Walker, Richard M.; Xue, Lan
作者单位：National Taiwan University; City University of Hong Kong; Tsinghua University
摘要：Public administration has undergone a fundamental change in China since Deng Xiaoping initiated a process of openness and reform in the late 1970s. While reform is widespread in Greater China (China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau), only limited scholarship has been conducted to theorize these changes and empirically document them. This is somewhat surprising given the growing international prominence of China as a major powerhouse in the world economy and a political leader. This symposium seek...
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作者：Wu, Xun; He, Yan-ling; Sun, Milan Tung-Wen
作者单位：National University of Singapore; Sun Yat Sen University; National Chi Nan University
摘要：Public Administration (PA) as a field of study in China has made tremendous strides over the last three decades. This paper provides an overview of PA research in China from a sample of 2,877 articles published in six top PA journals in mainland China and Taiwan between 1998 and 2008. Our analysis based on these journal publications reveals several critical shortcomings of PA research in China in research reporting, approaches, and methodologies, pointing to a long journey ahead before the ful...
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作者：Dixon, Ruth; Arndt, Christiane; Mullers, Manuel; Vakkuri, Jarmo; Engblom-Pelkkala, Kristiina; Hood, Christopher
作者单位：University of Oxford; Maastricht University; Tampere University
摘要：Educational performance rankings elicit extensive press coverage and varied political responses. To investigate how the negativity of press coverage was related to the rankings results and political response, we compared the domestic press coverage of two educational rankings (the 2006 editions of the OECD's Progress in Student Achievement (PISA) and the IEA's Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)) in four European countries (Germany, Finland, France, and Britain). We found ...
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作者：Donnelly, Caitlin
作者单位：Queens University Belfast
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作者：Considine, Mark
作者单位：University of Melbourne
摘要：Governmental systems are deeply inscribed by processes of path dependence and lock-ins, yet they are also required to play a central role in both policy reform and institutional transformation. This paper offers an account of governance networks and posits a solution to the traditional problem of dynamic inertia in governmental institutions and thus provides the foundations for a theory of transformation. By first identifying network governance as a typology of institutional ensembles, the pap...
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作者：Zhan, Xueyong; Tang, Shui-Yan
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; University of Southern California; University of Southern California
摘要：Drawing on political opportunity and resource dependency theories, this paper traces the development of 28 environmental NGOs (eNGOs) in China and examines the political and institutional factors that have constrained or facilitated these organizations' policy advocacy activities. The paper shows that political structural changes have created greater opportunities for eNGOs' policy advocacy, and eNGOs with better financial resources and connections to the party-state system are more capable of...
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作者：Bartels, Koen P. R.
作者单位：Bangor University
摘要：Public encounters, face-to-face contact between public professionals and citizens, was first identified as a key issue in public administration 80 years ago, but never developed into a subject area of its own. Although receiving attention in research on street-level bureaucrats' contact with customers, clients, and citizens, the concept of public encounters is hardly used. However, it has great potential to overcome current limitations in understanding how public encounters can enhance the qua...
