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作者：Kwon, Sung-Wook; Feiock, Richard C.
作者单位：Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：Interlocal cooperation through service-sharing agreements has a long history, but its use has increased in popularity during the last 20 years. The decisions of local government units to collaborate through intergovernmental service agreements are best understood as a two-stage process. The first stage, in which communities decide whether to consider interlocal cooperation, involves the nature of the immediate problem faced plus specific demands for performance and efficiency gains that can re...
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作者：Morcoel, Goektug; Wolf, James F.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要：What is the current state of research on business improvement districts (BIDs)? What is an appropriate framework for analysis? What are key questions for advancing future BID research? BIDs can be understood best within a network governance framework. The research shows, first, a blurring of the line between the public and private spheres as a result of BIDs; second, BIDs are increasingly important actors in urban governance; third, BIDs engage in collaborative, conflictual, and co-optative re...
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作者：Dull, Matthew
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要：Few topics in the study of contemporary public organizations better illustrate the burdens-and potential benefits-of sustaining dialogue between practitioners and scholars than the interplay between leadership, organizational culture, and public sector performance. Following two decades of intensive research and advocacy, the last 10 years have seen diminished scholarly attention to this subject, while efforts to shape culture remain central to the leadership of public organizations. This essa...
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作者：Hartmann, Jim; Khademian, Anne M.
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要：Despite a declining interest in the relationship between leadership, culture, and performance in the scholarly literature, culture change is alive and well among leaders in the public sector as a means to improve performance. This essay reviews the trajectory of culture studies and proposes a modest model of organizational culture that sets aside many of the conceptual and methodological arguments about culture, focusing instead on what leaders actually do to change culture. The model is exami...
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作者：Roberts, Alasdair
作者单位：Suffolk University
摘要：India's 2005 Right to Information Act (RTIA) is among dozens of national laws recently adopted similar to the U. S. Freedom of Information Act. Drawing on several large studies examining the act's implementation, the author finds that Indian citizens filed about 2 million requests for information under the RTIA during its first two and half years. However, use of the law was constrained by uneven public awareness, poor public planning, and bureaucratic indifference or outright hostility. Requi...
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作者：Dreyfus, Francoise
作者单位：heSam Universite; Universite Pantheon-Sorbonne
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作者：Montjoy, Robert S.
作者单位：University of Louisiana System; University of New Orleans
摘要：Changes during the last decade have significantly altered the nature of election administration and driven up its costs. Interviews with practitioner representatives from the elections community reveal a number of issues that continue to influence this field. Expense data from two counties illustrate how policy changes affect election costs. Scheduled ending of federal funding threatens a perfect storm in election finance that may undermine hard-won advances from 2000 to 2010. Possible cost re...
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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：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...
