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作者：Moynihan, Donald P.; Ingraham, Patricia W.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
摘要：Scholars of an earlier era predicted a more secure role for the administrative state in American political culture. This vision overlooked a historical irony that governs the relationship between politics and administration. For American society, the administrative state is a suspect handmaiden. Citizens have looked to public administration to enable extraordinary growth while simultaneously distrusting it. In recent decades, these contradictory trends have grown. The growth of the state, incr...
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作者：Wolf, Douglas A.; Amirkhanyan, Anna A.
作者单位：Syracuse University; Syracuse University; American University
摘要：It is widely believed that projected changes in the age structure of the U.S. population will create serious fiscal pressures at the federal level. Irrespective of any reforms undertaken at the federal level, these demographic trends also will have a direct impact on the way state and local governments operate. A review of recent population projections to 2020 reveals a great deal of heterogeneity in demographic trends at lower levels of government. Population aging will accompany overall popu...
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作者：Weible, Christopher M.; Moore, Richard H.
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Children's Hospital Colorado; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：The rationale for collaborative environmental management often hinges on two factors: first, specialized training creates biased analytics that require multidisciplinary approaches to solve policy problems; second, normative beliefs among competing actors must be included in policy making to give the process legitimacy and to decide trans-scientific problems. These two factors are tested as drivers of conflict in an analysis of 76 watershed partnerships. The authors find that analytical bias i...
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作者：LeRoux, Kelly; Brandenburger, Paul W.; Pandey, Sanjay K.
作者单位：University of Kansas; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark
摘要：Local governments increasingly confront policy problems that span the boundaries of individual political jurisdictions. Institutional theories of local governance and intergovernmental relations emphasize the importance of networks for fostering service cooperation among local governments. Yet empirical research fails to examine systematically the effects of social networks on interlocal service cooperation. Do the individual networks of local government actors increase their jurisdiction's le...
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作者：O'Leary, Rosemary; Van Slyke, David M.
作者单位：Syracuse University; Syracuse University
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作者：Liebert, Saltanat
作者单位：Virginia Commonwealth University
摘要：Immigration is a sensitive topic on the American political, social, and economic agenda. Globalization as well as the end of the Cold War have meant that people are on the move worldwide as never before. Millions of people from poor countries migrate to richer ones to provide better lives for themselves and their families through legal and illegal channels. Heated debates surround this subject. A dramatic divide persists between proponents, who equate immigration policy with civil rights, and ...
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作者：Roberts, Nancy C.
作者单位：United States Department of Defense; United States Navy; Naval Postgraduate School
摘要：How do nongovernmental (NGO), international (IO), and military organizations cope with their dependencies and address their perceptual and real differences in order to coordinate their field operations? This question is addressed through the creation of a matrix grouping civilian (NGOs and IOs) and military operations into four general types: peacekeeping; disaster relief; complex humanitarian emergencies/warfare; and stabilization and reconstruction. Second, using Galbraith's information proc...
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作者：Mesch, Debra J.
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Purdue University in Indianapolis
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作者：Hoyman, Michele M.; McCall, Jamie R.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; North Carolina State University
摘要：Eminent domain is an urgent problem facing local government administrators and scholars throughout the United States. However, the literature is sparse regarding how local leaders make decisions on this hot-button issue. A 2006 Government Accountability Office report noted a lack of data about local governments' use of their eminent domain authority. A survey of county managers in North Carolina was conducted to redress this apparent knowledge gap. Although the findings are primarily generaliz...
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作者：Stensota, Helena Olofsdotter
作者单位：University of Gothenburg
摘要：While a growing body of research argues for increased attention to ethics within public administration, scholars diverge on how to conceptualize the character of public ethics. Likewise, empirical evidence regarding the role that ethics plays in the quality of service delivery is rare. The author argues that the concept of a public ethics of care is useful for public administration in welfare states. She examines the idea empirically through a large-N analysis of frontline bureaucrats within t...
