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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：Brown, Trevor L.; Potoski, Matthew; van Slyke, David M.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; Syracuse University
摘要：Governments at all levels buy mission-critical goods and services whose attributes and performance requirements are hard to define and produce. Many governments-and the public managers who lead them-lack experience and knowledge about how to contract for complex products. The contract management counsel provided to public managers is thin. Missing is a conceptual managerial framework to guide purchasing the complex products that are often so critical to public organizations' core missions. Dra...
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作者：Belardinelli, Paolo
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作者：Tokic, Damir
摘要：Deflation presents special challenges to central banking, as traditional monetary policy tools are highly inefficient in dealing with deflationary pressures. In this case, the Federal Reserve must use alternative monetary policy tools that are specially designed to artificially boost asset prices through printing press or currency manipulation. Unfortunately, these alternative monetary policy tools create unintended political, geopoliticaL and social consequences that overreach into the direct...
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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：Heimstaedt, Maximilian; Dobusch, Leonhard
作者单位：University of Innsbruck
摘要：Transparency is in vogue, yet it is often used as an umbrella concept for a wide array of phenomena. More focused concepts are needed to understand the form and function of different phenomena of visibility. In this article, the authors define organizational transparency as systematic disclosure programs that meet the information needs of other actors. Organizational transparency, they argue, is best studied as an interorganizational negotiation process on the field level. To evaluate its meri...
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作者：Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei
作者单位：University of Kansas
摘要：This article examines the decades-long practices of performance budgeting in different countries and their associated challenges from a multilayered institutional framework. Based on theory and lessons learned, the article recommends an array of strategies to address institutional and organizational barriers. It also proposes to reconceptualize performance budgeting as a performance budget management system and suggests how multiyear budget planning, financial risk assessment, policy planning,...
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作者：Wachs, Martin
