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作者：Gilmour, John B.
作者单位：William & Mary; William & Mary
摘要：In a recent incarnation of the public-private partnership, state or city governments agree to lease revenue-producing assets to a private operator for a lengthy period, up to 99 years. The government receives an up-front payment, allowing it to collect many years of future revenue at once. This article evaluates the distributional consequences across time of one asset lease, the Indiana Toll Road. The analysis finds that the majority of benefits, in the form of road construction, are enjoyed i...
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作者：Anessi-Pessina, Eugenio; Sicilia, Mariafrancesca; Steccolini, Ileana
作者单位：Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; University of Bergamo; Bocconi University
摘要：The literature on budgeting in the public sector has traditionally focused on the annual budgetary process. Much less attention has been paid to rebudgeting-that is, what governments do to revise and update their budgets during the fiscal year. Because of its potentially large impact on appropriations, rebudgeting seemingly deserves more attention than it has been granted so far. This article uses data from a sample of Italian municipalities to test hypotheses on the main drivers of budget rev...
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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：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：Kim, Soonhee; Lee, Jooho
作者单位：Syracuse University; University of Nebraska System
摘要：This article examines the relationship between electronic participation (e-participation) and trust in local government by focusing on five dimensions of the e-participation process: (1) satisfaction with e-participation applications, (2) satisfaction with government responsiveness to e-participants, (3) e-participants' development through the participation, (4) perceived influence on decision making, and (5) assessment of government transparency. Using data from the 2009 E-Participation Surve...
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作者：Newswander, Chad B.
作者单位：University of South Dakota
摘要：The pursuit of the common good must be understood from the reality that governing is ugly. The ability to grapple with situations that are ambiguous requires administrators to be cognizant of action that might be suspect but necessary to accomplish the public interest. This often requires them to become active players. John Rohr postulates that the U.S. Supreme Court's standards of strict scrutiny is one approach that could be used to justify such action. Building on this line of thinking, the...
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作者：Schmidle, Timothy P.
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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：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...
