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作者：Hou, Yilin; Brewer, Gene A.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Governments often use multiple policy instruments for pursuing policy goals with mutually reinforcing effects. These effects include supplementation and substitution. This article examines both effects by studying two instruments of state budget stabilization policy: general fund balances and budget stabilization funds. States normally maintain budget surpluses in the general fund. In recent decades, many also created separate budget stabilization funds to guard against economic downturns. Emp...
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作者：Lyles, Alan
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Baltimore
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作者：Paarlberg, Laurie E.; Lavigna, Bob
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Wilmington
摘要：Despite growing evidence about prosocial motivations and their effects on employee behavior, how can new public service motivation research translate into more effective management practices-which, so far, regrettably remain underdeveloped? Increasingly, public service motivation studies have moved from understanding what motivates public servants to exploring how public service motives influence performance. Similarly, greater attention is now paid to the practices of transformational leaders...
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作者：Seibel, Wolfgang
作者单位：University of Konstanz
摘要：The political role of public administration holds an ambiguous status in public administration theory. The dominant paradigms of the discipline offer more or less negative perspectives. Max Weber's notion of bureaucracy conceives public administration as the apolitical tool of government, while the public choice school conceives it as the realm of individual selfishness and rent seeking at taxpayers' expense. In this unfavorable epistemological environment, positive concepts of what makes publ...
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作者：Kraeger, Patsy
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
