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作者：Feeney, Mary K.; Bozeman, Barry
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Despite the abundance of red tape literature and the growing popularity of outsourcing in the public sector, no study has yet investigated red tape in consulting relationships. Using survey data from public managers and the contractors with whom they work, the authors investigate public managers' and private consultants' perceptions of organizational and contracting red tape. They identify the determinants of red tape perceptions, variation in those perceptions, and the characteristics of resp...
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作者：Peretz, Paul; Schroedel, Jean Reith
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Fullerton; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Brown University; Cornell University; Columbia University; Claremont Colleges; Claremont Graduate University; Claremont Colleges; Claremont Graduate University
摘要：Peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1837.
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作者：Koppenjan, Joop F. M.; Enserink, Bert
作者单位：Delft University of Technology
摘要：The speed and scale of urbanization provide serious challenges for governments all over the world with regard to the realization, maintenance, and operation of public urban infrastructures. These infrastructures are needed to keep up with living standards and to create conditions for sustainable development. The lack of public funds and the inefficiencies of public service provision have given rise to initiatives to stimulate private parties to invest their resources in public urban infrastruc...
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作者：Haras, Catherine
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Los Angeles
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作者：Perry, James L.; Engbers, Trent A.; Jun, So Yun
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
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作者：Klingner, Donald
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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作者：Sullivan, Terry
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Can the current presidential appointments process be improved? This essay highlights three kinds of problems: inexperienced appointees, a lengthening process, and tedious and adversarial inquiry. While the essay side-steps trying to affect the prerogatives of institutions involved in the tussle over appointments, it concentrates on improving the support of presidential personnel operations and the process of inquiry that nominees face, and it identifies patterns of repetitiveness among the rou...
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作者：Kickham, Kenneth; Ford, David A.
作者单位：University of Central Oklahoma
摘要：The central question addressed by this article is the effect of state-level marriage initiatives on divorce and childhood poverty rates. State divorce rates have been problematic for researchers because of variation across states in the way they are compiled. This research takes a different approach, measuring instead the prevalence of divorce rather than the number of divorces granted in a given state or year. The authors use this indicator, derived from Current Population Survey data, as an ...
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作者：Zeemering, Eric
作者单位：California State University System; San Francisco State University
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作者：Morgeson, Forrest V., III; Mithas, Sunil
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：This paper examines the federal government's success in implementing and providing high-quality service through e-government, something that has received very little attention. We define quality from the perspective of the end users of federal agency Web sites, as measured through customer survey data. Using data from the American Customer Satisfaction Index, we compare the performance of federal agency Web sites across a range of relevant variables with a private sector equivalent, e-business...
