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作者：Hong, Sounman; Kim, Youngrok
作者单位：Yonsei University
摘要：This article explores how political principals weigh loyalty and competence in public personnel decisions. Exploiting the abrupt shift in political leadership following the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye of Korea, the authors examine how the newly elected president made the decision to retain or dismiss 118 agency heads appointed by the previous administration. The evidence shows the importance of loyalty in managerial survival: those who had a political patronage relationship with the...
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作者：Mughan, Sian
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Higher levels of government motivate municipal consolidations as a tool to increase efficiency in the local government sector, yet research shows that consolidations typically fail to deliver the promised spending reductions. Since mergers often require significant changes to institutional structures, one explanation is that local decision makers can substantially influence the outcomes of the consolidation process. To explore this possibility, this article contrasts encouraged but voluntary m...
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作者：Hall, Jeremy L.; Battaglio, R. Paul
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
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作者：Robinson, Scott E.; Pudlo, Jason M.; Wehde, Wesley
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; Oral Roberts University; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：The complexity of the modern information ecosystem raises many questions for public organizations. In the context of emergency management, information (such as warning messages) is communicated not only from a source of authority to the public but also between members of the public. The authors use a series of storms that affected Oklahoma in the spring of 2016 to test propositions related to how information about tornado warnings reached the public and who received and shared information abou...
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作者：Elkomy, Shimaa; Cookson, Graham; Jones, Simon
作者单位：University of Surrey; New York University
摘要：Contracting out of public services, especially ancillary services, has been a key feature of New Public Management since the 1980s. By 2014, more than 100 pound billion of U.K. public services were being contracted out annually to the private sector. A number of high-profile cases have prompted a debate about the value for money that these contracts provide. Value for money comprises both the cost and the quality of the services. This article empirically tests the contestability and quality sh...
