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作者：Bertelli, Anthony M.; Doherty, Kathleen M.
作者单位：Bocconi University; University of Southern California
摘要：Congress imposes statutory deadlines in an attempt to influence agency regulatory agendas, but agencies regularly fail to meet them. What explains agency responsiveness to statutory deadlines? Taking a transaction cost politics approach, the authors develop a theory of responsiveness to deadlines centered on political feasibility to explain how agency managers map rulemaking onto calendar and political time. This theory is tested on all unique rules with statutory deadlines published in the Un...
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作者：Hoopes, Stephanie; Treglia, Dan
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Seventy percent of Americans identify as middle class, but one in three middle-income households do not earn enough to support their family at the most basic level, and four in five do not earn enough to afford a sustainable budget. This incongruity explains the increasing frustration of many workers. Yet official government measures do not capture this reality, and as a result, policy makers continue to create economic policies that perpetuate the structural mismatch between wages and costs. ...
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作者：Adams, Ian T.
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
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作者：Aristigueta, Maria P.; McConnie-Saad, Pablo I.
作者单位：University of Delaware; University of Delaware; University of Delaware; University of Delaware
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作者：Dimitrijevska-Markoski, Tamara; French, P. Edward
作者单位：Mississippi State University
摘要：Performance management has been a focus of scholars and practitioners for more than 25 years, yet the use of performance information has not greatly expanded as a result of this attention. Acknowledging that performance measurement is not an end in itself but rather a means to enhance focus on results and value, this article evaluates the determinants of the use of performance information by local government administrators. An online survey was administered to local government employees involv...
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作者：Getha-Taylor, Heather
作者单位：University of Kansas
摘要：The reinventing government movement of the 1990s reshaped the public sector in significant ways. Creating a government that worked better and cost less was accomplished through streamlined federal middle management ranks and privatized service delivery, which contributed to the emergence of a hollow state. Workforce reductions that addressed short-term economic realities effectively threatened the long-term sustainability of governmental organizations and the communities they serve. A variety ...
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作者：Petersen, Ole Helby; Baekkeskov, Erik; Potoski, Matthew; Brown, Trevor L.
作者单位：Roskilde University; Roskilde University; University of Melbourne; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Transaction cost attributes, such as the complexity of the product being purchased, shape the risk that government contracts will fail. When transaction cost risks are particularly strong, a common prescription is to avoid contracting altogether or, if it is unavoidable, to spend additional resources on contract management activities. This article presents evidence on the size and variability of governments' ex ante transaction cost spending, using original data from 72 contracts issued by 47 ...
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作者：Ely, Todd L.; Propheter, Geoffrey; Jones, Rich; Wasserman, Scott
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver
摘要：Middle-class families face a range of challenges, including uneven income growth, imposing child care costs, and affordability gaps for higher education. The ideal policies by which policy makers and public administrators can aid the middle class are far from obvious. Policy solutions are likely to mirror our government and population, meaning that they will be decentralized and varied. Achieving a growing and thriving middle class requires understanding the composition of the middle class acr...
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作者：Rothbart, Michah W.; Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Calabrese, Thad D.; Papper, Zachary; Mijanovich, Todor; Meltzer, Rachel; Silver, Diana
作者单位：Syracuse University; Syracuse University; Syracuse University; New York University; The New School; The New School; New York University
摘要：Can governments use grades to induce businesses to improve their compliance with regulations? Does public disclosure of compliance with food safety regulations matter for restaurants? Ultimately, this depends on whether grades matter for the bottom line. Based on 28 months of data on more than 15,000 restaurants in New York City, this article explores the impact of public restaurant grades on economic activity and public resources using rigorous panel data methods, including fixed-effects mode...
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作者：Fischer, Robert L.; Richter, Francisca Garcia-Cobian; Anthony, Elizabeth; Lalich, Nina; Coulton, Claudia
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
摘要：The challenge of complex social issues drives the need for data systems that can connect information across multiple service delivery systems. Integrated data systems provide significant value for needs assessment, program planning, policy decision making, and collective impact evaluation across a range of social issues. This case study describes a mature county-based integrated data system. The case study has three aims: (1) to highlight the value of integrated data systems to research, (2) t...
