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作者:Ho, Alfred T. -K.
作者单位:University of Kansas
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作者:Franklin, Aimee L.; Grossman, Athena; Le, Jennifer; Shafer, Mark
作者单位:University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要:Climate science research documents and predicts changes in the physical environment. This information informs policy decisions and public programs through the design of human interventions that promote adaptive management. Since the early 2000s, federal funding has led to the creation of transdisciplinary regional climate workgroups to facilitate integrative knowledge coproduction and promote shared use of research results by scientific and nonscientific stakeholders. Labeled boundary organiza...
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作者:Podger, Andrew
作者单位:Australian National University
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作者:Battaglio, R. Paul; Hall, Jeremy L.
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida
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作者:Roberts, Alasdair
作者单位:University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
摘要:Researchers have examined the impact of the politics-administration dichotomy on the practice and theory of public administration within the United States. But the dichotomy also influenced patterns of international engagement by American experts in the 1920s and 1930s. Americans believed that they could set politics aside and collaborate on administrative questions with regimes that did not respect democracy and human rights. This belief was tested after the rise of Adolf Hitler. American exp...
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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: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...