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作者：Meijer, Albert Jacob
作者单位：Utrecht University
摘要：Research on and practical attention for the coproduction of public services is increasing. Coproduction is seen as a way to strengthen the quality and legitimacy of public service and reduce costs. Scholarship on coproduction of public services repeatedly ignores the role of the new media. This is surprising since many proponents highlight its potential for changing traditional, government-centric approaches to delivering public services. This article shows that digital communities form an imp...
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作者：Ponomariov, Branco L.; Boardman, P. Craig
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Early studies of organizational red tape emphasized that worker perceptions of organizational rules and procedures are dependent on workers' frames of reference. However, most prior studies do not account sufficiently for how and why these reference points vary across employees, even if they work within the same or similar organizational contexts. While the effects of contemporaneous employee attitudes on perceptions of red tape have been considered in prior analyses, how do perceptions of org...
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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：Kort, Michiel; Klijn, Erik-Hans
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Urban regeneration companies (URCs) are public-private entities appearing across Europe. They are created specifically to manage and implement more effectively urban regeneration projects. Core ideas behind the establishment of these newly emerging partnerships aim to tackle the challenging process of restructuring these organizations so as to function at arm's length from political oversight. However, contemporary literature on governance suggests that organizational form may be less a factor...
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作者：Herspring, Dale R.
作者单位：Kansas State University
摘要：The key problem in civil-military relations in established polities such as Russia and the United States is not civilian control of the military, but rather how to create a symbiotic relationship of shared responsibility between senior military officers and civilian leaders. In such a situation, civilian leaders obtain much needed expertise from the military, but ultimately remain in control. The keys to symbiotic civil-military relations are a desire on the part of military officers to work w...
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作者：Boyne, George A.; James, Oliver; John, Peter; Petrovsky, Nicolai
作者单位：Cardiff University; University of Exeter; University of Manchester; University of Kentucky
摘要：A crucial test of whether management matters is whether changes in the team at the top of an organization make a difference. Focusing on turnover in the collective senior team rather than successions of individual chief executives, this article argues that the impact of leadership succession is contingent upon prior organizational performance. The evidence on English local government shows that changes in the top management team lead to improvements when initial performance is bad, but result ...
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作者：Nelson, Robert H.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
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作者：Malatesta, Deanna; Smith, Craig R.
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Purdue University in Indianapolis; University of Arizona
摘要：Employing a resource dependence theoretical framework, the authors analyze a set of recently awarded contracts between the Environmental Protection Agency and its suppliers to determine how joint dependence, supplier dependence, and government dependence affect contract design-specifically, the decision to use a cost-plus (flexible) contract. Findings provide evidence that organizations choose contract designs that will reduce uncertainty related to securing critical resources. However, differ...
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作者：McCabe, Barbara Coyle
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Homeowners associations (HOAs) are private governments that are reshaping urban governance and service delivery in large parts of the United States. Despite the fact that millions of Americans are HOA members, the field of public affairs has paid scant attention to these new governance entities. The essays in this symposium call attention to HOAs' potential effects on urban services and civic life in the hope of sparking interest among scholars and public managers to include HOAs in our unders...
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作者：Rhodes, R. A. W.
作者单位：University of Tasmania
摘要：What intellectual influence, if any, have British public administration scholars had on their American counterparts since World War II? In this article, the author briefly reviews the major areas of theory and research in the British study of publication administration, further identifying important contributions by British scholars in the areas of modernist-empiricism, the new public management, regulation, policy networks and governance, and interpretive theory. Although there is a discernib...
