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作者：Guy, Mary E.; McCandless, Sean A.
作者单位：Children's Hospital Colorado; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Children's Hospital Colorado
摘要：Social equity is rooted in the idea that each person is equal and has inalienable rights. Because of America's unique blend of social, religious, economic, and political characteristics, we value this concept despite, or perhaps because of, the simultaneous tensions of a capitalist economy, which requires inequality, set within a democratic constitutional system, which assumes equality. The impossibility of simultaneously achieving inequality and equality produces episodic corrections. This wa...
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作者：Hood, Christopher
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：Public management by numbers has experienced an international policy boom in recent decades, and big claims have been made about its performance-enhancing effects. But it is hard to assess such claims systematically, even though we can find dramatic anecdotes of cases in which management by numbers seems to have had performance-weakening as well as performance-enhancing effects. In an attempt to build on studies that have gone beyond critiquing the statistical validity and reliability of perfo...
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作者：Witesman, Eva M.; Wise, Charles R.
作者单位：Brigham Young University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：The public administration literature has long identified public administrators as key players in achieving government reform. Public managers may be motivated to provide employee access to training in governance skills by several factors, including the need to fulfill the current functions of government, to expand employee responsibilities, or to reform administrative processes and/or programs. The authors examine the impact of public managers on the availability of governance skills training ...
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作者：Holmes, Maja Husar
作者单位：West Virginia University
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作者：Stout, Margaret
作者单位：West Virginia University
摘要：A growing number of public administration theorists are taking up the question of ontologythe nature of existence. This primer on the topic provides a basic explanation of ontology, describes the fundamental debates in the competing ontologies of Western philosophy, and discusses why ontology is important to social and political theory, as well as to public administration theory and practice. Using an ideal-type approach, the author analyzes how different ontologies imply particular political ...
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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：Cognitive biases are heuristics that shape individual preferences and decisions in a way that is at odds with means-end rationality. The effects of cognitive biases on governing are underexplored. The authors study how election administrators cognitive biases shape their preferences for e-voting technology using data from a national survey of local election officials. The technology acceptance model, which employs a rational, means-end perspective, suggests that the perceived benefits of e-vot...
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作者：Resh, William G.
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
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作者：Rossmann, Doralyn; Shanahan, Elizabeth A.
作者单位：Montana State University System; Montana State University Bozeman; Montana State University System; Montana State University Bozeman
摘要：Achieving public participation often is a goal for public budgeting entities, but it is difficult to accomplish in practice. This study examines three questions: How do public representatives interpret and define their democratic responsibilities? What are their insights regarding opportunities for and barriers to participatory budgeting processes? To what extent are these goals met? To address these questions, this research employs a qualitative research strategy with a case study design of a...
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作者：Christensen, Tom; Dong, Lisheng; Painter, Martin; Walker, Richard M.
作者单位：University of Oslo; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：This article explores the attitudes of officials in the upper echelons in Chinese provincial and local government toward the origins of administrative reform. The authors examine the somewhat dichotomous argument that reform imitates the West or is indigenous and contend that both influences are present. Data drawn from a survey of party cadres and government officials show that cultural factors (time in government, overall knowledge of administrative reforms, together with familiarity with th...
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作者：Bifulco, Robert; Bunch, Beverly; Duncombe, William; Robbins, Mark; Simonsen, William
作者单位：Syracuse University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Springfield; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Springfield; University of Connecticut
摘要：Government borrowing occurs whenever the government forgoes control over some future flow of resources or benefits in order to acquire resources for current use. Based on this definition, the authors identify several ways that state governments borrow, which include widely recognized forms of debt as well as types of actions that are less transparent. Case studies for Connecticut, Illinois, and New York document the large amounts of future commitments that these states have taken on to cover o...
