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作者：Moynihan, Donald P.; Lavertu, Stephane
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 and the George W. Bush administrations Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) established new routines that were intended to foster performance management practices. Using data from two surveys, the authors find that the involvement of agency employees in GPRA processes and PART reviews generally had little direct effect on performance information use once other factors are accounted for. The main exception is that managerial involvement...
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作者：Marmor, Ted
作者单位：Yale University
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作者：Wachhaus, T. Aaron
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University
摘要：This article centers on two interconnected ideas that have garnered increasing attention in public administration: (1) a shift away from centralized institutional authority structures and (2) the concomitant rise of networks in the public sector. While network theories have been viewed as ushering in a new paradigm for understanding governance, they remain rooted in the language and framework of hierarchical bureaucratic systems. The author suggests that embracing an approach not grounded in a...
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作者：Orr, Kevin; Bennett, Mike
作者单位：University of Hull; University of Hull
摘要：Developing greater cooperation between researchers and practitioners is a long-standing concern in social science. Academics and practitioners working together to coproduce research offers a number of potential gains for public administration scholarship, but it also raises some dilemmas. The benefits include bringing local knowledge to bear on the field, making better informed policy, and putting research to better use. However, coproduction of research also involves managing ambiguous loyalt...
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作者：Girth, Amanda M.; Hefetz, Amir; Johnston, Jocelyn M.; Warner, Mildred E.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Haifa; American University; Cornell University
摘要：Capturing the benefits of competition is a key argument for outsourcing public services, yet public service markets often lack sufficient competition. The authors use survey and interview data from U.S. local governments to explore the responses of public managers to noncompetitive markets. This research indicates that competition is weak in most local government markets (fewer than two alternative providers on average across 67 services measured), and that the relationship between competition...
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作者：O'Leary, Rosemary; Choi, Yujin; Gerard, Catherine M.
作者单位：Syracuse University; State University System of Florida; Florida International University; Syracuse University
摘要：In this article, the authors focus on members of the U.S. Senior Executive Service who choose collaboration as a management strategy to increase performance and, in particular, their views of the skill set of a successful collaborator. Based on the current literature on collaboration and networks, these executives might be expected to identify strategic thinking and strategic management as the most important skills. Contrary to expectations, the federal executives most frequently mentioned ind...
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作者：Julnes, Patria de Lancer
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Baltimore
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作者：Holzer, Marc; Kasymova, Jyldyz
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick
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作者：Kim, Sangmook
作者单位：Seoul National University of Science & Technology
摘要：Public service motivation theory suggests that public service motivation is positively related to work attitudes, but person-organization fit theory assumes that person-organization fit completely mediates the relationship between public service motivation and work attitudes of public employees. This article investigates which theory better predicts attitudes toward work, such as job satisfaction and organizational commitment of public employees, by testing hypotheses on (1) whether public ser...
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作者：Mingus, Matthew S.
作者单位：Western Michigan University
摘要：Nations in the Arab world are largely unitary states, yet Iraq has embarked on a seemingly ambitious agenda of decentralization and devolution mixed with federalism. While local elections have been delayed at least until 2012, and indeed may never take place, Iraq's constitutional commitment to decentralize and subsequent statutory enactments appear to be turning provincial governments into significant actors in Iraqi governance. Progress has taken place at a slower, more deliberate pace than ...
