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作者：He, Chenyang; Lo, Carlos Wing-Hung; Liu, Ning; Tang, Shui-Yan
作者单位：Fudan University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong; University of Southern California
摘要：A standing contention in the agencification/de-agencification literature concerns how to explain the adoption or reversal of the agency form for service delivery. What considerations-transaction costs or political and institutional factors-drive the choice of specific reform strategies? Employing a configurational perspective, this article examines this question in the context of China's service organization reform. By tracing the de-agencification process and strategy shift of 11 service orga...
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作者：Einolf, Christopher J.
作者单位：Northern Illinois University
摘要：Understanding how administrators can commit unethical acts is an important goal of public administration research. This article tests whether moral inversion, taken from Balfour, Adams, and Nickels' theory of administrative evil, can help explain torture, and also proposes and tests Bandura's theory of moral disengagement. It analyzes testimony from perpetrators of torture who testified before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1996-2000. The results support moral inversi...
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作者：Hendriks, Jessy; Damhuis, Koen; Overman, Sjors
作者单位：Utrecht University
摘要：Politicians frequently voice criticisms vis-& agrave;-vis bureaucracy, its organizations, and its employees. Previous studies point at the negative impact of this bureaucratic bashing on public sector morale, recruitment, retention, and citizen perceptions. Yet, systematic evidence on bashing remains sparse, with even less known about its counterpart: bureaucratic praising. This article aims to fill this gap by conceptualizing both phenomena as forms of framing, by distinguishing macro-, meso-...
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作者：Bousema, Ingo; Busscher, Tim; Rauws, Ward; Leendertse, Wim
作者单位：University of Groningen
摘要：Forums play a crucial role in how polycentric governance systems adapt by allowing actors to deliberate on how to respond to exogenous change. However, the exact role of forums remains unclear, as prior studies on polycentric governance often examine different types of actors and network structures separately. To address this issue, we combine insights from actor and network level analyses to compare how actors in three Dutch metropolitan areas use forum shifting, shopping, and linking as stra...
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作者：Liu, Zejin
作者单位：Sun Yat Sen University
摘要：This study focuses on the prevalence of nonprofit sector support organizations (NSSOs)-a form of nonprofit organization (NPO) devoted to providing services and resources to support grassroots development. Contrary to previous studies that emphasize the importance of institutions in shaping the NPO population through their effect on citizens and nonprofit managers, this study links three institutional pressures-coercive, mimetic, and normative pressures-to the decisions of public agencies to es...
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作者：Walsh, Stephanie; Porumbescu, Gregory A.; Hetling, Andrea
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides food assistance to those in need, and while the program reaches many who are eligible, program participation falls short of reaching all who are eligible. One factor contributing to this gap in participation is difficulty understanding program eligibility, a common challenge with means-tested benefit programs. Governments have attempted to improve public understanding of these complex programs using a range of tools to reduce learni...
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作者：George, Bert; Jacobsen, Dag Ingvar; Johanson, Jan-Erik; Johnsen, Age; Pekkola, Elias
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; University of Agder; Tampere University; Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet)
摘要：Strategic planning is core to public administration at all governmental levels. Evidence suggests that when conducted well strategic planning impacts several performance outcomes. Yet, public administration and strategy scholars have argued that strategic planning is not only a technical procedure. Its success is contingent upon the people involved in strategic planning. This study investigates strategic planning using user acceptance theory. It identifies whether formal and participatory stra...
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作者：Yang, Yongzheng; Wang, Ying
作者单位：Renmin University of China
摘要：Administrative burden in citizen-state interactions has received increasing attention. Building upon existing literature on its antecedents and consequences, this study further examines how financial, human, social, and political capital are associated with administrative burden and how three dimensions of administrative burden (i.e., learning, compliance, and psychological costs) are associated with welfare participation. Using unique data from the minimum living standard scheme in China and ...
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作者：Suhadi, Rudy Irwan; Ibrahim, Muhammad Akmal; Abdullah, Muhammad Tang; Cataldi, Laura
作者单位：Universitas Hasanuddin
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作者：Kim, Taek Kyu
作者单位：University of Exeter
摘要：Employee fraud, defined as the misuse of organizational resources for personal financial gain, has long been a serious issue in public organizations, risking deteriorated performance outcomes. Although previous public administration research has discussed organizational cheating related to organizational performance, we need to inquire further about employee fraudulent behaviors across public organizations and other scenarios that cause those behaviors. This study focuses on whether performanc...
