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作者：Miller, Edward Alan; Doherty, Julia; Nadash, Pamela
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Boston
摘要：Pay for performance (P4P) aims to use reimbursement to incentivize providers to deliver high-quality services. This article examines P4P in five Medicaid nursing home programs: Iowa, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Utah, and Vermont. It describes each program and draws lessons regarding program participation, financing, measurement, administration, and development. Findings highlight the importance of obtaining stakeholder input, both initially and on an ongoing basis. Findings also highlight the need to...
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作者：Thompson, Frank J.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark
摘要：The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 constituted an epic policy breakthrough, culminating a century of effort to ensure that nearly all Americans can obtain health insurance. The articles in this special issue seek to illuminate the challenges involved in implementing this law and other health reforms in a context marked by deep-seated partisan polarization. This introductory essay provides a backdrop to frame the more specific insights of the contributors. It introduce...
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作者：Grimmelikhuijsen, Stephan; Porumbescu, Gregory; Hong, Boram; Im, Tobin
作者单位：Utrecht University; Myongji University; Seoul National University (SNU)
摘要：Transparency is considered a key value for trustworthy governments. However, the effect of transparency on citizens' trust across national cultures is overlooked in current research. This article compares the effect of transparency on trust in government in the Netherlands and South Korea. The effect is investigated in two similar series of three experiments. The authors hypothesize that the effect of transparency differs because the countries have different cultural values regarding power dis...
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作者：Thom, Michael
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：Recent conflicts over public sector defined benefit pension funding have inspired polarized debates about the need for reform, including the utility of replacing pensions with defined contribution accounts, which are popular throughout the private sector. Between 1996 and 2011, 15 American states enacted legislation to implement either mandatory or optional defined contribution accounts for certain public employees. What drove this process? This article investigates the role of political, budg...
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作者：Walker, Richard M.; Jung, Chan Su; Boyne, George A.
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; Cardiff University
摘要：The relationship between politicians and bureaucrats is central to the administration of modern democratic societies, yet it often is neglected in studies of the performance of public organizations. In this article, the authors examine the performance effects of alignment between politicians' and senior managers' perceptions of one of the more pervasive public management reforms over recent decades: performance management. Evidence from a panel of English local governments supports the hypothe...
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作者：Agarwal, P. K.
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作者：Dickerson, John
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作者：Hannah, Sean T.
作者单位：Wake Forest University
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作者：Page, Stephen
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
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作者：Haeder, Simon F.; Weimer, David L.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 has been one of the most controversial laws in decades. The ACA relies extensively on the cooperation of states for its implementation, offering opportunities for both local adaptation and political roadblocks. Health insurance exchanges are one of the most important components of the ACA for achieving its goal of near-universal coverage. Despite significant financial support from the federal government, many governors and legislatur...
