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作者：Fay, Daniel L.; Ghadimi, Adela
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically changed employment across sectors in 2020.This Viewpoint essay examines public sector labor relations during the pandemic and describes the impact bargaining process that is used to protect public employees.The authors draw on their own experience with impact bargaining negotiations and the public labor relations,conflict management,and civil service reform literatures to develop recommendations for public union labor leaders during times of crisis.They sugge...
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作者：Schuster, Christian; Weitzman, Lauren; Sass Mikkelsen, Kim; Meyer-Sahling, Jan; Bersch, Katherine; Fukuyama, Francis; Paskov, Patricia; Rogger, Daniel; Mistree, Dinsha; Kay, Kerenssa
作者单位：University of London; University College London; Stanford University; University of Nottingham; Davidson College; Stanford University; Stanford University; The World Bank; Stanford University; The World Bank
摘要：Responding to COVID-19 presents unprecedented challenges for public sector practitioners. Addressing those challenges requires knowledge about the problems that public sector workers face. This Viewpoint essay argues that timely, up-to-date surveys of public sector workers are essential tools for identifying problems, resolving bottlenecks, and enabling public sector workers to operate effectively during and in response to the challenges posed by the pandemic. This essay presents the COVID-19 ...
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作者：de la Cruz, Ramirez; Edgar, E.; Grin, Eduardo Jose; Sanabria-Pulido, Pablo; Cravacuore, Daniel; Orellana, Arturo
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作者：Alonso, Jose M.; Andrews, Rhys
作者单位：Universidad de Cantabria; Cardiff University
摘要：Theoretical perspectives on the ideological influences on government contracting predict that local governments controlled by right-wing political parties will contract out a higher proportion of services than those controlled by left-wing parties. However, empirical evidence on the impact of political ideology on contracting out remains inconclusive. To cast new light on this important issue, the authors apply a quasi-experimental research design to contracting choices in children's social se...
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作者：Bouckaert, Geert; Galli, Davide; Kuhlmann, Sabine; Reiter, Renate; Van Hecke, Steven
作者单位：KU Leuven; KU Leuven; Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; University of Potsdam; Fern University Hagen
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作者：Kropf, Martha; Pope, JoEllen V.; Shepherd, Mary Jo; Mohr, Zachary
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte
摘要：A public agency's capacity to implement policy and achieve valued public outcomes has been a long-running area of research in public administration. Many articles provide theory and empirics regarding the capacity to implement policy, but relatively few examine multiple types of agency capacity within the same analysis. This article develops a model based on the election administration literature in political science and public administration to examine the effects of managerial capacity, fina...
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作者：Waterman, Richard W.; Ouyang, Yu
作者单位：University of Kentucky; Purdue University System; Purdue University Northwest
摘要：Studies in presidential appointments, particularly principal-agent models, posit that presidents employ a top-down strategy to control the bureaucracy, one that promotes loyalty over competence. However, many studies have two critical limitations: (1) treating loyalty and competence as binary constructs and (2) focusing only on presidential nomination and Senate confirmation (PAS) appointments. In this article, the authors construct a continuous measure of loyalty and competence to determine h...
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作者：Charbonneau, Etienne; Doberstein, Carey
作者单位：University of Quebec; Ecole National Administration Publique Canada; University of British Columbia
摘要：As public sector work environments continue to embrace the digital governance revolution, questions of work surveillance practices and its relationship to performance management continue to evolve, but even more dramatically in the contemporary period of many public servants being forced to shift to remote work from home in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article presents the results of three surveys, two of them population-based survey experiments, all conducted during the onset of th...
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作者：Shi, Yu; Jang, Hee S.; Keyes, Laura; Dicke, Lisa
作者单位：University of North Texas System; University of North Texas Denton; University of North Texas System; University of North Texas Denton
摘要：This Viewpoint essay examines the service delivery responses of nonprofit organizations that offer homeless support services amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Government mandates and severe human needs have forced nonprofits to adapt quickly. Literature reviews provide little information about how nonprofits should manage service continuity under pandemics. Data collected from websites and interviews with nonprofits executives provide an understanding of adaptations and innovations. The study uses a...
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作者：Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
