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作者：Campbell, David
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Public managers in local integrated services collaboratives find that commitment to local partnership goals sometimes requires evading policy directives that are imposed by legislation or bureaucratic superiors. Using data that reveal what is often concealed, the author finds that these workarounds can be defined and identified and that they often revolve around central features of policy rather than marginal details. Workarounds emerge in the space created by certain managerial strategies and...
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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 ...
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作者：Martell, Christine R.; Kravchuk, Robert S.
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Children's Hospital Colorado; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte
摘要：This article surveys developments in the municipal debt market for their practical and conceptual implications for public financial managers and scholars. It provides an overview of the market crisis of 2007-9, focusing on what fiscal stress reveals about debt costs, the incidence of risk, and management methods. The first part focuses on the systemic factors-highly leveraged subprime mortgage instruments and collateralized debt obligations-that affected credit availability, interest costs, an...
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作者：Villadsen, Anders R.
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：This article investigates how executive succession influences the comprehensiveness of structural changes pursued by public organizations. Executive successions are important events for organizations that provide salient opportunities for introducing organizational change, yet little research has analyzed this relationship. The author argues that the less familiarity a new executive has with the organization and the field in which it works, the more likely it is that comprehensive organization...
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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：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...
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作者：Burden, Barry C.; Canon, David T.; Mayer, Kenneth R.; Moynihan, Donald P.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：This article argues that administrative burden-that is, an individual's experience of policy implementation as onerous-is an important consideration for administrators and influences their views on policy and governance options. The authors test this proposition in the policy area of election administration using a mixed-method assessment of local election officials. They find that the perceived administrative burden of policies is associated with a preference to shift responsibilities to othe...
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作者：LaMarche, Gara
作者单位：New York University
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作者：Provan, Keith G.; Lemaire, Robin H.
作者单位：University of Arizona; University of Arizona
摘要：This article provides an overview of the key research findings and core concepts on the topic of organizational networks. The primary focus is on goal-directed whole service delivery networks, which are prevalent in the public and nonprofit sectors. The findings and ideas presented are especially salient for helping public managers build, maintain, operate, and govern multi-organizational networks in ways that will enhance their effectiveness. Because research and theory on networks extend wel...
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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...
