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作者：Heikkila, Tanya
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Children's Hospital Colorado
摘要：Water policy and management decisions are increasingly challenged by uncertainties associated with climate change, changing demographics, and social values. This article discusses how research by water governance scholars supports and complements Rob M. Skinner's arguments about the complexities of water planning and policy making and the importance of stakeholder engagement. Specifically, it focuses on how this decision-making context shapes the ways in which evidence is used and understood i...
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作者：Nisar, Muhammad Azfar; Maroulis, Spiro
作者单位：Lahore University of Management Sciences; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Despite the importance of peers in forming role expectations, fostering group identity, and facilitating job learning, limited theory and empirical evidence exist on the antecedents of street-level peer relationships. To address this gap, the authors draw on social capital and social exchange theories to develop hypotheses about the micro-social foundations of street-level bureaucrats' peer selection. The hypotheses are tested using a rich data set from an intraorganizational network of teache...
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作者：Walsh, Kate
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作者：Turner, Victor T.
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作者：Middlemass, Keesha M.
作者单位：Trinity University
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作者：Wilson, Simon
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作者：Busuioc, Madalina; Lodge, Martin
作者单位：University of Exeter; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：Accountability is said to be about the management of expectations. Empirical studies reveal considerable variation in organizational interest, intensity, and investment in accountability relationships. Less is known, however, about what explains these observed variations. Drawing on accountability and reputation-concerned literatures, this article argues that a reputation-based perspective on accountability offers an underlying logic that explains how account-giving actors and account-holding ...
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作者：Riccucci, Norma M.; Van Ryzin, Gregg G.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark
摘要：Scholars and practitioners have long questioned whether the race, ethnicity, and gender of public bureaucrats matter to the efficacy and legitimacy of public services. Representative bureaucracy theory and research provide a growing body of empirical evidence that it does. This article examines some of the rich scholarly work that has been generated on representative bureaucracy and its implications for practice. A significant aspect of recent research focuses on the notion of symbolic represe...
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作者：Freedgood, Julia
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作者：Craw, Michael
作者单位：University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Little Rock; University of Arkansas Fayetteville
摘要：Sublocal governance organizations may provide a way for some urban neighborhoods to stabilize and improve property values. Recent advances in collective action theory, spatial statistical methods, and data availability now make it possible to more directly evaluate the effects of these organizations. The analysis combines geocoded assessor's data and data from a survey of neighborhood and homeowner associations to analyze a model of prices of single-family homes in Little Rock, Arkansas, from ...
