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作者：Dickinson, Helen
作者单位：University of New South Wales Sydney; University of New South Wales Sydney
摘要：In recent years, developments in 3D printing have grasped the public's attention. There are a range of different applications for these technologies that have a number of social, economic, and environmental implications. This essay considers these advancements and what the role of government should be in overseeing these technologies. It argues that although these technologies have been absent from the public administration literature to date, there is an important role that the field can play...
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作者：Morcol, Goktug
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University
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作者：Beland, Daniel
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作者：Allard, Scott W.; Wiegand, Emily R.; Schlecht, Colleen; Datta, A. Rupa; Goerge, Robert M.; Weigensberg, Elizabeth
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Chicago; University of Chicago; Mathematica
摘要：Growing interest in the use of administrative data to answer questions around program implementation and effectiveness has led to greater discussion of how government agencies can develop the necessary internal data infrastructure, analytic capacity, and office culture. However, there is a need for more systematic research into how states find different pathways and strategies to build administrative data capacity. Drawing on interviews with almost 100 human service agency staff and their data...
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作者：Carrigan, Christopher
作者单位：George Washington University
摘要：Public administration scholars and practitioners uniformly agree that saddling agencies with multiple mandates breeds dysfunction and impedes performance. However, less is known about the mechanisms by which combining purposes has these effects. This study of a broad set of U.S. federal agencies finds support for the conventional wisdom by showing that agencies balancing greater numbers of programs perform worse. The analysis further suggests that such organizations struggle largely because th...
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作者：Kasdin, Stuart
摘要：It is not efficient for a budget system either to enable excessively frequent changes in programs and tax policies or to be rigid and unresponsive. Program durability is one measure of how a budget system weighs the competing goals of resoluteness and responsiveness. The federal budget has different processes-mandatory and discretionary spending and tax expenditures-each based in separate congressional committees and relying on separate procedures. This article examines the budget systems' dur...
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作者：Wang, Qiushi; Peng, Jun
作者单位：Sun Yat Sen University; Sun Yat Sen University; University of Arizona
摘要：State governments are frequently said to manipulate the discount rate assumption to make pension funding look better, reduce employers' and employees' pension contributions, or relieve fiscal stress. Building a model from the political embeddedness perspective and applying an event history analysis to the 81 largest state-administered pension plans in the United States, the authors found that more politically embedded pension boards were actually more likely to reduce their plan's discount rat...
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作者：Ospina, Sonia M.; Esteve, Marc; Lee, Seulki
作者单位：New York University; University of London; University College London; New York University
摘要：Systematic reviews of research methods in the public administration field have assessed the progress of research practice and offered relevant recommendations to further develop research quality. But most recent reviews examine quantitative studies, and the few assessments of qualitative scholarship tend to focus on specific dimensions. This article calls attention to the overall practice of qualitative research in the field of public administration. The authors analyzed 129 qualitative studie...
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作者：Cooper, Terry L.
作者单位：University of Southern California
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作者：Alibasic, Haris
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of West Florida
