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作者：Dvorak, Jaroslav
作者单位：Klaipeda University
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作者：Raile, Eric D.
作者单位：Montana State University System; Montana State University Bozeman
摘要：This article examines influences on public servant perceptions of ethical climate in the public sector. The array of beneficial outcomes produced by perceptions of a positive ethical climate, the existence of government programs aimed at improving ethical climate, and implications for government accountability and trustworthiness all argue for a better understanding of the sources of these perceptions. Empirical analyses of survey responses from employees of the U.S. federal executive branch s...
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作者：Johansen, Morgen; LeRoux, Kelly
作者单位：University of Hawaii System; University of Hawaii System; University of Chicago
摘要：Public management scholars are interested in the ways that public managers can improve the performance of their organizations and, by extension, public service outcomes. However, public sector outcomes are increasingly being produced by nonprofit organizations. Nonprofits have encountered increased pressures to improve effectiveness in recent years, both from their funding entities and from the public. A growing body of public management research has shown that managerial networking can pay di...
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作者：Kroll, Alexander
作者单位：University of Potsdam
摘要：The literature on performance information use explains how public managers deal with mainly quantitative data that are systematically collected and formally reported. This article argues that such a narrow understanding is incomplete, as it excludes all kinds of nonroutine performance information, including verbal, ad hoc, and qualitative feedback. To understand how responsive public managers are to performance feedback, alternative sources of performance information need to be taken into acco...
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作者：Rho, Eunju
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：The determinants and consequences of contracting are examined in more than 1,000 Texas school districts for 19972008. The results largely replicate prior research by O'Toole and Meier, showing that contracting is negatively related to spending on school districts' core instructional functions and that the relationship between contracting and bureaucracy is reciprocal. The present findings, based on data from a longer period, indicate that contracting is positively related to school district pe...
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作者：Durant, Robert F.; Ali, Susannah Bruns
作者单位：American University
摘要：Levels of citizen estrangement from government in the United States have risen rather consistently since the late 1960s and have reached all-time highs in recent years. Evidence is accumulating in political science research to suggest that public administrative theory may have contributed to this trend since the Progressive Era in the early 1900s. The authors develop this thesis by arguing that administrative theory in the United States has persistently portrayed public managers as bridge buil...
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作者：Fountain, Jane E.
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
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作者：Graffy, Elisabeth
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
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作者：Hock, Scott; Anderson, Sarah; Potoski, Matthew
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
摘要：Public managers, in addition to implementing sound policies, are expected to manage public participation in the policy process. Civic meetings, in which citizens, elected officials, and public managers discuss proposed policies, can be an effective venue for citizen input, but only if participation is sufficiently high. This article shows that municipal government managers can improve attendance at civic meetings through invitation phone calls. Results from a field experiment in which stakehol...
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作者：Bartels, Koen P. R.; Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi
作者单位：Bangor University; University of St Gallen
摘要：The debate on volunteering has paid insufficient attention to the relationship between public spending and volunteering. The importance of this relationship is highlighted by the British government's Big Society plan, which asserts that an increase in volunteering will compensate for the withdrawal of public agencies and spending. This idea is based on the widely held belief that a high degree of government intervention decreases voluntary activities. This article uses a multidisciplinary appr...
