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作者：Ozymy, Joshua; Menard, Bryan; Jarrell, Melissa L.
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University Corpus Christi; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University Corpus Christi; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University Corpus Christi; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University Corpus Christi; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
摘要：Conventional analysis suggests that enforcement actions meted out by the US Environmental Protection Agency vary greatly across Democratic and Republican presidential administrations. Yet research fails to look beyond civil actions to explore how the agency engages in the criminal enforcement of environmental crimes over time or whether and how those outcomes change across partisan administrations. We explore these questions by using content analysis to build a comprehensive dataset of 2,588 c...
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作者：Schmidthuber, Lisa; Ingrams, Alex; Hilgers, Dennis
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University; Johannes Kepler University Linz
摘要：The open government paradigm implies that public processes are becoming more transparent, public information is available online, and citizens and nongovernmental organizations are encouraged to interact with public administration through new platform-based forms of participation and collaboration. Though these governmental efforts to open up organizational procedures to the public are meant to strengthen the relationship between citizens and the government, empirical evidence is currently spa...
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作者：Guul, Thorbjorn Sejr; Pedersen, Mogens Jin; Petersen, Niels Bjorn Grund
作者单位：Aarhus University; University of Copenhagen
摘要：Frontline employees cope with high workloads and limited resources by directing their work attention and efforts toward particular clients. Yet, the role of client attributes in frontline employees' efforts to help clients remains undertheorized and empirically understudied. Using a survey experimental vignette design (2 x 2 factorial) among 1,595 Danish caseworkers, the authors of this article provide new knowledge on how two generic nondemographic client attributes-competence and motivation-...
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作者：Appe, Susan; Rubaii, Nadia; Whigham, Kerry
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY; State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
摘要：Mass atrocities constitute a wicked problem that warrants greater attention from public administration scholars. The role bureaucrats have in committing or contributing to mass atrocities is well documented yet bureaucrats also have the potential to play crucial roles in stopping current, preventing future, and responding to past atrocities. Despite the central role of public administrators in mass atrocities and prevention, public administration scholarship is largely silent on such topics, e...
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作者：Malandrino, Anna
作者单位：Harvard University; University of Turin
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作者：Bertelli, Anthony M.; Busuioc, Madalina
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University
摘要：We explore the democratic implications of a reputational account of bureaucratic authority. While an influential literature has examined the relevance ofreputation-and mutual exchange between principals and agents in public organizations generally-the normative implications of these insights have largely escaped scrutiny. We discuss how reputation-building impacts both the ability and the motivation of principals to oversee administrative policymaking. We argue that reputation-sourced authorit...
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作者：Lira, Leonard L.
作者单位：California State University System; San Jose State University
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作者：Knill, Christoph; Steinbacher, Christina; Steinebach, Yves
作者单位：University of Munich; University of Munich
摘要：In modern democracies, policy stocks pile up over time. In many ways policy accumulation reflects societal modernization and progress. However, if policy accumulation is not matched by corresponding expansions in administrative capacities necessary for policy implementation, a negative trade-off between responsiveness and policy electiveness evolves. We argue that aligning policy formulation and implementation activities through vertical policy-process integration (VPI) may curb policy accumul...
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作者：Malandrino, Anna
作者单位：Harvard University; University of Turin
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作者：Mergel, Ines; Ganapati, Sukumar; Whitford, Andrew B.
作者单位：University of Konstanz; State University System of Florida; Florida International University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：The evolving concept of agile has fundamentally changed core aspects of software design, project management, and business operations. The agile approach could also reshape government, public management, and governance in general. In this Viewpoint essay, the authors introduce the modern agile movement, reflect on how it can benefit public administrators, and describe several challenges that managers will face when they are expected to make their organizations more flexible and responsive.
