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作者：Nabatchi, Tina
作者单位：Syracuse University
摘要：This article seeks to put the public back in public values research by theorizing about the potential of direct citizen participation to assist with identifying and understanding public values. Specifically, the article explores eight participatory design elements and offers nine propositions about how those elements are likely to affect the ability of administrators to identify and understand public values with regard to a policy conflict. The article concludes with a brief discussion about p...
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作者：Tummers, Lars
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Currently, there is an intense debate on the pressures facing public professionals during policy implementation. Frequently, professionals have difficulty identifying with new policies, resulting in diminished policy performance. The author examines this problem using the concept of policy alienation and develops and tests a scale for its measurement. Policy alienation is associated conceptually with five subdimensions: strategic powerlessness, tactical powerlessness, operational powerlessness...
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作者：O'Neil, Patrick D.; Krane, Dale
作者单位：University of Nebraska System
摘要：Although the high-reliability organization (HRO) literature identifies several attributes that differentiate HROs from other types of organizations, these studies do not explain how an HRO comes into being, nor do they provide a means to gauge or measure the extent to which an organization exhibits the specified features. This article reports the results of a 97-year longitudinal case study tracking the emergence and continuation of HRO characteristics in the Federal Aviation Administrations a...
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作者：Jennings, Edward T., Jr.
作者单位：University of Kentucky
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作者：Choi, Cheon Geun; Choi, Sang Ok
作者单位：Korea University
摘要：Collaborative partnerships can be an effective strategy for crime prevention, especially in disorganized communities. Using ordinary least squares regression with 414 American cities, this article finds that police departments with many collaborative partnerships are able to promote informal social control within their communities and capitalize on the resources available to them with the help of other groups. This contention is supported by the effects of collaborative partnerships on crime r...
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作者：Richards, Robert C., Jr.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
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作者：Dull, Matthew; Roberts, Patrick S.; Keeney, Michael S.; Choi, Sang Ok
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Korea University
摘要：This article analyzes the confirmation and tenure of 2,300 Senate-confirmed, presidential appointees to U.S. government agencies between 1989 and 2009, linking patterns of appointee confirmation and tenure to institutional politics, appointee independence, and agency context. Consistent with prior research, the authors find that nominees of new, powerful, and popular presidents enjoy expedited Senate confirmation. Contentious congressional committee oversight, by contrast, tends to delay confi...
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作者：Joaquin, M. Ernita; Greitens, Thomas J.
作者单位：California State University System; San Francisco State University; Central Michigan University
摘要：Research indicates that successful government contracting depends on sufficient internal management capacity. Numerous studies have examined the decision to contract out and its pitfalls, but few have tracked government contract management capacity. This study explores whether a change is observable in the capacity of U.S. local governments to engage in effective contracting from 1997 to 2007. The authors discuss whether this change represents a decline or degradation, and in which form and ty...
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作者：Shipan, Charles R.; Volden, Craig
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Virginia
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作者：Wang, XiaoHu; Hawkins, Christopher V.; Lebredo, Nick; Berman, Evan M.
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida; National Chengchi University
摘要：Why do some governments implement more sustainability practices than others? Based on a national survey of U.S. cities, this article finds moderate levels of sustainability efforts and capacity in U.S. cities; about one-third of the sustainability practices identified in this article have been implemented. The authors conclude that, first, capacity building is a useful conceptual focus for understanding sustainability implementation in U.S. cities. Capacity building involves developing technic...
