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作者：Raadschelders, Jos C. N.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：What should be done to advance the study of public administration? A strong argument is advanced by outgoing PAR managing editor Jos C. N. Raadschelders that the field benefits significantly from greater attention to ontology and epistemology. To be sure, empirical, evidence-based research has its place, but its basis and the meaning of findings seldom are questioned. Why? Many public administration scholars seek scientificness through a disciplinary type of methodology. However, working withi...
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作者：Koliba, Christopher J.; Mills, Russell M.; Zia, Asim
作者单位：University of Vermont; University of Vermont; University System of Ohio; Kent State University; Kent State University Salem; Kent State University Kent
摘要：What is the most effective framework for analyzing complex accountability challenges within governing networks? Recognizing the multiscale and intersector (public, private, and nonprofit) characteristics of these networks, an accountability model is advanced organized around democratic (elected representatives, citizens, and the legal system), market (owners and consumers), as well as administrative (bureaucratic, professional and collaborative) relationships. This concept draws from 2005 even...
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作者：Cooper, Phillip J.
作者单位：Portland State University
摘要：President Barack Obama inherited many challenges as he entered the White House. One of the most important obligations he faced was the constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Meeting that commitment has been rendered more difficult because Obama seems not to have recognized that the people and organizations of the executive branch are facing a crisis in the capacity to govern. This essay argues that no matter how talented President Obama may be in public policy o...
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作者：Jaskyte, Kristina
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：This study examines the effects of human and structural/process factors on two types of innovation-administrative and technological-in a sample of nonprofit organizations. The results indicate that factors that are favorable to administrative innovations differ from those that are conducive to technological innovation. Three variables are significant predictors of administrative innovation: centralization, transformational leadership, and the executive director's job tenure. Transformational l...
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作者：Murdie, Amanda
作者单位：Kansas State University
摘要：Professor Dale R. Herspring argues that civil-military relations should move beyond a preoccupation with civilian control; instead, he says, the focus should be on the degree and nature of conflict within civil-military interactions. This alternative theoretical view adds much to the extant literature and allows future work to concentrate both on a more nuanced account of the effects of civil-military relations and, as Professor Herspring does, on the determinants of a healthy degree of civil-...
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作者：Hardy, Catherine A.; Williams, Susan P.
作者单位：University of Sydney
摘要：There is a growing recognition in the field of e-government that improving the quality and impact of research requires taking into account their complex contexts and drawing on more interdisciplinary and collaborative research. Limited attention so far has been directed toward the conduct of such research, particularly in contract-based research arrangements for developing e-government policy. A four-nation study of public e-procurement policy is used here to make transparent the process of de...
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作者：Harris, G. L. A.
作者单位：Portland State University
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作者：Stillman, Richard J., II
作者单位：Children's Hospital Colorado; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
摘要：In this last issue under his supervision, PAR's editor in chief reflects on the value and worth of the journal over the last seven decades and the competitive challenges that PAR faces today, and presents a modest blueprint for strengthening PAR in the future.
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作者：Stout, Margaret
作者单位：West Virginia University
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作者：Raadschelders, Jos C. N.; Lee, Kwang-Hoon
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：Since many [empiricists], especially the younger, do not know very much about epistemology, they tend to be quite dogmatic about the one set of canons that dominate them.
