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作者:Plant, Jeremy F.
作者单位:Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University
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作者:West, William F.
作者单位:Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Bush School of Government & Public Service
摘要:The fact that centralized executive oversight of agency policy making is primarily reactive reflects the motives and constraints that define the president's relationship with the domestic bureaucracy. Such a strategy allows for the allocation of limited resources to agency initiatives that are inconsistent with the president's agenda or that evoke conflict within the executive branch or the larger political system. This calls into question the descriptive model of presidential administration a...
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作者:Chan, Sewin
作者单位:New York University
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作者:Harding, Stephen
作者单位:Northwestern University
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作者:Jacobsen, Henrik
作者单位:University of Oxford
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作者:Carley, Sanya; Nicholson-Crotty, Sean; Fisher, Eric J.
作者单位:Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要:Programs administered by the U.S. Department of Energy under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 were designed to spur investment in clean energy and jump-start the economy. There was considerable variation, however, in the proportion of obligated funds that states spent during each year. A primary goal of the ARRA was to infuse as much money as possible into the struggling economy; however, there was significant variation in the success with which states implemented thes...
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作者:Nelson, Kimberly L.; Svara, James H.
作者单位:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要:The standard narrative to explain the evolution of roles filled by city managers suggests that managers originally served as administrative technicians who carried out the policy directives of city councils, but, over time, they became more involved in policy advice and community leadership. This article documents enduring involvement in policy and the recent expansion of community leadership, analyzing definitions of the manager's roles offered by practitioners and scholars since the beginnin...
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作者:Chowdhury, Farzana
作者单位:Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
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作者:Siddiki, Saba N.; Carboni, Julia L.; Koski, Chris; Sadiq, Abdul-Akeem
作者单位:Indiana University System; Indiana University Indianapolis; Reed College - Portland
摘要:Local food system governance increasingly occurs in collaborative venues at the local, state, and regional levels. Prominent examples of such are food policy councils (FPCs). FPCs take a systemic approach to improve local food systems by including diverse stakeholders to advise on policy development. The authors study public FPCs to understand how policies structure the stakeholder composition and goals of FPCs and how FPCs' stakeholder composition facilitates and/or impedes performance. Data ...
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作者:Frova, Francesco
作者单位:City University of New York (CUNY) System