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作者:Durant, Robert F.
作者单位:American University
摘要:With polarization in Congress persistent, with staggering issues and international threats facing the nation, and with fiscal stress an enduring fact of life, presidents have for decades turned to the tools of the administrative presidency to advance and implement their policy agendas. As the Barack Obama administration completed its first six months in office amid great challenges and hopes, the president was no exception in counting on his appointees to wield the tools of the administrative ...
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作者:Dawes, Sharon S.; Cresswell, Anthony M.; Pardo, Theresa A.
作者单位:State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要:As pressures to engage in cross-agency and cross-sectoral partnerships become more widespread, information sharing becomes an ever more critical and daunting aspect of public administration. In this edition's exchange among scholars and practitioners, Sharon S. Dawes, Anthony M. Cresswell, and Theresa A. Pardo of the Center for Technology in Government at the University at Albany, State University of New York, offer a baker's dozen of lessons they have culled from research and their own action...
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作者:West, William F.; Lindquist, Eric; Mosher-Howe, Katrina N.
作者单位:Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Bush School of Government & Public Service; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要:Some scholars have argued that environmental regulatory pressures constrain organizations' financial opportunities, while others maintain that environmental regulations can spur product and technology innovations and encourage greater operational efficiencies. Advocates on both sides have evidence in support of their positions. However, considering both perspectives in tandem and recognizing that other factors may be associated with improved financial performance, we may find that neither posi...
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作者:Dahlstrom, Timothy R.
作者单位:Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
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作者:Im, Tobin
作者单位:Seoul National University (SNU)
摘要:This article elucidates the temporal dimension of time stress among employees in public organizations. Employees working at five agencies in Indiana were surveyed. Job characteristics and personal variables such as overtime, repetitiveness, gender, family obligation, and age group were found to be insignificant as time stressors. However, political factors such as level of government, goal awareness, political sensitivity, and time allotted for meetings were significant independent variables a...
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作者:Witesman, Eva M.; Wise, Charles R.
作者单位:Brigham Young University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要:We hypothesize that the structural characteristics (i.e., centralization versus decentralization) of government affect the availability of training in values and skills that are fundamental to democratization. We test our hypothesis in statistical models predicting anticorruption training and policy skills training, using a model of technical skills training for comparison. We find that centralized government structure significantly increases the odds of receiving both anticorruption training ...
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作者:Kapucu, Naim
作者单位:State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida
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作者:Farazmand, Ali
作者单位:State University System of Florida; Florida Atlantic University
摘要:The twenty-first century is characterized by rapid change, globalization, hyper-competition, and hyper-uncertainty. Traditional models of governance and public administration are no match for the challenges of this chaotic environment. This essay argues for building new administrative capacity in response to these serious governance dilemmas. Offered as a modest prescription, this new administrative capacity is proposed to cope more effectively with an increasingly unknowable world. The articl...
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作者:Su, Xuhong; Bozeman, Barry
作者单位:University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要:Policy makers and public managers emphasize the importance of bringing private sector experience and skills into the public and nonprofit sectors. One result is an increased focus on privatization and contracting out, developments to which researchers have been attentive. However, the long-standing practice of hiring people with industrial experience into the public and nonprofit sectors has received remarkably little attention. This study, based on questionnaire responses from mid- and upper-...
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作者:Ye, Lin
作者单位:Roosevelt University
摘要:A comparative analysis of regional governance policies in China and the United States is presented from multiple perspectives, including jurisdictional structure, intergovernmental relationship, and performance outcomes. Policy reviews and case studies contrast how regional approaches may assist governments to learn seminal lessons from multinational experiences.