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作者:Leon-Moreta, Agustin
作者单位:University of New Mexico
摘要:This article examines levels of policing services, focusing on an assessment of resources and their measurement for municipalities. Two measures of policing levels assess the reliability of the findings across alternative measurements. Social and institutional characteristics are explored to evaluate alternative explanations in policing efforts. The article presents four decades of census data for municipalities in metropolitan areas. The central finding is that unequal levels of policing are ...
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作者:O'Neill, Robert J., Jr.; Nalbandian, John
作者单位:University of Kansas; University of Kansas
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作者:McCabe, Barbara Coyle; Ponomariov, Branco; Estrada, Fabyan
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要:Accreditation, long used to signal quality among hospitals and universities, has been available to police, fire, and public works departments since the late 1980s. For public service departments, accreditation is a voluntary process that demands significant organizational resources without a guaranteed outcome. Why would city officials devote scarce resources to such an endeavor? Two explanations are examined. First, accreditation may be a rational response to a history of trouble or the poten...
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作者:Yi, Hongtao
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要:Comparing and evaluating the performance of governance networks are important tasks for researchers and practitioners of network governance and public administration. Limited by the lack of network data across space and time, the study of network performance and effectiveness at the network level is not on pace with advances in theories and methodologies in network analysis. With a novel methodology to measure clean energy governance networks using hyperlink network analysis across the contigu...
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作者:Porcher, Simon
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作者:Kroll, Alexander; Moynihan, Donald P.
作者单位:State University System of Florida; Florida International University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要:In recent decades, governments have invested in the creation of two forms of knowledge production about government performance : program evaluations and performance management. Prior research has noted tensions between these two approaches and the potential for complementarities when they are aligned. This article offers empirical evidence on how program evaluations connect with performance management in the U.S. federal government in 2000 and 2013. In the later time period, there is an intera...
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作者:Graycar, Adam
作者单位:Flinders University South Australia
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作者:Lindsay, Colin; Findlay, Patricia; McQuarrie, Johanna; Bennie, Marion; Corcoran, Emma Dunlop; Van Der Meer, Robert
作者单位:University of Strathclyde; University of Strathclyde; University of Strathclyde; University of Strathclyde; University of Strathclyde
摘要:Stakeholders agree on the need to promote innovation in work organization in public services. This article deploys the concept of collaborative innovation to discuss employees' and managers' experiences of a major technology-driven work redesign project within National Health Service pharmacy services in Scotland. The authors draw on extant literature on New Public Management (NPM) and collaborative approaches to innovation to frame more than 40 in-depth interviews with managers and employees....
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作者:Somers, Mark John
作者单位:New Jersey Institute of Technology
摘要:This article builds on Fernandez et al.'s 2015 review of Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) research by focusing on two unexplored areas: measurement models and measurement quality. Employing the notion of an auxiliary measurement theory as an organizing framework, the author assesses the use of FEVS survey items to operationalize theoretical constructs and procedures in order to establish their psychometric quality. Results indicate that there is considerable variability in how FEVS ite...