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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：Stanton, Thomas H.
作者单位：Johns Hopkins University
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作者：Hartley, Jean; Sorensen, Eva; Torfing, Jacob
作者单位：Roskilde University
摘要：There are growing pressures for the public sector to be more innovative but considerable disagreement about how to achieve it. This article uses institutional and organizational analysis to compare three major public innovation strategies. The article confronts the myth that the market-driven private sector is more innovative than the public sector by showing that both sectors have a number of drivers of as well as barriers to innovation, some of which are similar, while others are sector spec...
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作者：Lavertu, Stephane; Lewis, David E.; Moynihan, Donald P.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：This article examines how ideological differences between political officials and agencies may have affected the implementation of an ostensibly nonpartisan, government-wide administrative initiative: the George W. Bush administration's Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) review of federal programs. The analysis reveals that managers in agencies associated with liberal programs and employees (liberal agencies) agreed to a greater extent than those in agencies associated with conservative pro...
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作者：Henderson, Alexander C.
作者单位：Long Island University; Long Island University Post
摘要：Passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has served to refocus attention on the complexity of health care delivery in the United States, with particular attention to concepts of quality, access, and outcomes. This article argues that our understanding of the ACA must be informed by an examination of policy implementation in health care, including the core public function of emergency medical services (EMS). Key concepts of implementation in frontline servicenotably, rule...
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作者：Vallory, Eduard
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作者：Marks, Peter K.; Gerrits, Lasse M.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
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作者：Perry, James L.
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作者：Mergel, Ines; Desouza, Kevin C.
作者单位：Syracuse University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：As part of the Open Government Initiative, the Barack Obama administration has called for new forms of collaboration with stakeholders to increase the innovativeness of public service delivery. Federal managers are employing a new policy instrument called Challenge.gov to implement open innovation concepts invented in the private sector to crowdsource solutions from previously untapped problem solvers and to leverage collective intelligence to tackle complex social and technical public managem...
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作者：Liebert, Saltanat; Ameringer, Carl F.
作者单位：Virginia Commonwealth University; Virginia Commonwealth University
摘要：There are currently more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States; the majority of them are of Hispanic origin. This article shows that Hispanic immigrants in the Greater Richmond, Virginia, area rely heavily on free clinics for basic health care services. Free clinics do not receive any public funding and thus face reduced government regulation. As a result, these clinics typically present fewer barriers to undocumented immigrants seeking care. Although free clinics functi...
