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作者：Porcher, Simon
摘要：This article uses a cross-country data set to empirically investigate the relationship between national culture and the quality of government. Culture has a strong impact on the quality of government that remains stable even after controlling for differences in institutions and economic development. This effect remains significant when the continents are considered separately, with the exception of Asia. The results reveal the importance of culture in understanding the quality of government an...
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作者：Trondal, Jarle; Haslerud, Gjermund; Kuhn, Nadja S.
作者单位：University of Agder; University of Oslo
摘要：This article examines government agencies facing choice architectures that are multiple, overlapping ambiguous, and sometimes incompatible-in short: turbulent. It makes two contributions: First, two conceptual images of agency governance are outlined that derive distinct predictions on how agencies are likely to maneuver when embedded in integrated multilevel administrative orders. Secondly, benefitting from a large-N dataset on agency officials (N = 1,963) from 47 government agencies, the stu...
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作者：Hall, Jeremy L.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida
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作者：Yackee, Jason Webb; Yackee, Susan Webb
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：We present the American State Administrators Project (ASAP), a decades-long survey of state agency leaders. This remarkable dataset provides a 50-state chronological portrait of state administrative leaders, what they think, and what their agencies do. The dataset has traditionally been closely held but is now being shared with the broader scholarly community for the first time. We use this article to demonstrate the dataset's potential to advance theory and knowledge of the modern administrat...
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作者：Kroll, Alexander; Moynihan, Donald P.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida International University; Georgetown University
摘要：Presidents are claimed to have a stronger interest in an effective bureaucracy than Congress because they must be responsive to the public as a whole rather than narrow interests. We examine this claim in the context of multiple waves of U.S. performance management reforms: the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993, the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART ) (2002-2008), and the GPRA Modernization Act (GPRAMA) of 2010. Using four waves of federal employee surveys spanning 17 ye...
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作者：Rimes, Heather
作者单位：University of North Carolina; Western Carolina University
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作者：Spicer, Michael W.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University
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作者：Fusi, Federica
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要：There are ongoing efforts to encourage public organizations to use data to enhance their performance and design public policies. Among barriers to data use, public managers report low access to data owned by stakeholders-other city departments, other public agencies, and nongovernmental organizations. A critical research question is how public organizations can design incentives and structures that decrease the time and resources spent to request and obtain access to data. Drawing from resourc...
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作者：Lee, Ivan P.; Jilke, Sebastian; James, Oliver
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Georgetown University; University of Exeter
摘要：Recent years have seen an increase in choice of provider in many public services, including education. Proponents of provider choice suggest that it increases users' satisfaction. However, insights from the psychology of choice overload suggest that too much choice can be detrimental The authors use a survey experiment to investigate the diet of provider choice on parents' satisfaction with schools (under performance declines and increases). The findings show that choice increases satisfaction...
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作者：Brunner, Eric J.; Robbins, Mark D.; Simonsen, Bill
作者单位：University of Connecticut; University of Connecticut; University of Connecticut
摘要：This article reports on an experiment testing whether additional information influences support for bond referenda. Respondents were randomly assigned to treatment conditions that varied the way the potential implications of property tax increases were presented to voters. The results show a persistent negative effect of tax information on the probability of support for school bond referenda across all treatments. Specifically, the results show that the probability of voting yes decreased by 6...
