作者:Girth, Amanda M.
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要:Contract incentives are designed to motivate contractor performance and to provide public managers with a powerful tool to achieve contract accountability. Our knowledge of contract incentives is rooted in contract design, yet as we move beyond contract specification and further into the contract lifecycle, we know little about why and how managers implement incentives. This study assesses public managers' use of contract incentives in practice and advances theory development. A typology of co...
作者:Olsen, Asmus Leth
作者单位:University of Copenhagen
摘要:The abundance of quantitative performance information has motivated multiple studies about how citizens make sense of hard performance data. However, research in psychology emphasizes that episodic information (e.g., case stories) often leaves a greater mark on citizens. This contradiction is tested using multiple experiments embedded in a large, nationally representative sample of Danish citizens. The results stress three differences between statistical and episodic data. Citizens have strong...
作者:Newby, Brian D.; Greene, Sean
作者:Burden, Barry C.; Canon, David T.; Mayer, Kenneth R.; Moynihan, Donald P.; Neiheisel, Jacob R.
作者单位:University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY
摘要:Tremendous attention has been paid to local election administration since the 2000 presidential election meltdown, yet policy makers still lack basic information about what happens at the polling place. One strategy to understand the interactions between citizens and street-level election bureaucrats is to turn to administrative data. Using logs collected by polling place workers, the authors analyze more than 66,000 individual incidents recorded from four different statewide elections. Such d...
作者:Raadschelders, Jos C. N.
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University