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作者：Kim, Chulwoo
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark
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作者：Woods, Neal D.
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Nonprofits represent a substantial group of third-party agents that deliver public services, yet little is known about the extent to which these organizations embrace participatory governance practices. Using survey data from nonprofit social service agencies in Michigan, the author examines how these organizations provide opportunities for client participation and identifies factors that contribute to these practices. Four methods of securing client involvement are examined: participation in ...
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作者：Bryer, Thomas A.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida
摘要：Between 2003 and 2006, researchers facilitated a collaborative learning process with representatives of Los Angeles neighborhood councils and officials from city agencies. In two cases, each involving a large city agency, the quality of responsiveness on the part of agency officials to participating citizens was substantially different. This study considers the reasons why agency officials differed in their responsiveness. Using an inductive qualitative and quantitative content analysis across...
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作者：Svara, James H.
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作者：Zhao, Zhirong Jerry
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Since China's 1994 fiscal reform, increasing concerns have been voiced about fiscal disparities across the country. Can local governments fairly and effectively fulfill basic public services such as primary education, public health, and social welfare? This essay traces the evolution of intergovernmental relations in China since 1978. The fluctuation of provincial level fiscal distribution over time and the underlying factors behind fiscal inequality, as compared to a decentralized American re...
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作者：Eikenberry, Angela M.
作者单位：University of Nebraska System
摘要：ASPA's future is intertwined with institutional trends in public administration, shaped especially by the directions of today's network governance. The implications for the future of ASPA and of other public administration professional associations are significant. In the author's view, ASPA must hold on to its unique generalist niche, but she counsels that ASPA should pay closer attention to advancing democratic and social equity issues throughout government.
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作者：Albalate, Daniel; Bel, Germa
作者单位：University of Barcelona
摘要：Congestion costs are emerging as one of the most important challenges faced by metropolitan planners and transport authorities in developed economies. In the United States, these costs were as high as $78 billion in 2005 and are growing as a result of rapid increases in travel delays. In order to solve the current and severe levels of congestion, the U.S. Department of Transportation has recently started a program to initiate congestion pricing in five metropolitan areas. In this context, it i...
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作者：Savage, James D.
作者单位：University of Virginia
摘要：The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration instituted a Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES) in 2002. As supplemented by matrix management, PPBES was appealing as an effort to rationalize the performance of an agency with an especially high degree of functional overlap among its component parts. Although PPBES has had some salutary effects, the agency's experience to date consistent with accounts of the difficulties that led to the abandonment of program budg...
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作者：Bowman, James S.; West, Jonathan P.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University of Miami
摘要：This study examines the ethical content of legislation regulating the political activities of civil servants. The analysis is done using the ethics triangle, a tool that encompasses the interdependence of results-based utilitarian ethics, rule-based duty ethics, and virtue-based character ethics. The discussion begins with the importance of the problem, followed by its evolution and current status. After describing the methodology, the central section investigates the values at stake. The conc...
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作者：Lee, Jack Yun-jie; Wang, XiaoHu
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida
摘要：What is the impact of performance-based budgeting (PBB) on governmental spending? Do various PBB implementation strategies result in different outcomes? The authors, Jack Yun-jie Lee of National Open University in Taiwan and XiaoHu Wang of the University of Central Florida, gathered data from the United States, Taiwan, and China (Guangdong Province) to explore the possible intermediate- and long-term results of PBB. The data demonstrate how the impacts of PBB vary across countries and regions.
