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作者：Plant, Jeremy F.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University
摘要：This essay examines the history of ASPA from internal and external vantage points, showing how the organization has continually adapted to demands from within and competition from without. ASPA is rooted in Progressive Era reforms that professionalized government during the first half of the twentieth century, spawning numerous associations of public officials dedicated to enhancing expertise and integrity throughout the public service. Changes in membership, mission, structure, conferences, p...
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作者：Khademian, Anne M.
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作者：Benito, Bernardino; Bastida, Francisco
作者单位：University of Murcia
摘要：This paper attempts, for the first time, to assess the relationship between transparency, fiscal situation, and political turnout using a comparative international approach. With this aim, the authors build a comprehensive index of budget transparency encompassing 40 budget features based on international standards for a sample of 41 countries. They find a positive relationship between national government fiscal balance and budget transparency. The more information the budget discloses, the le...
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作者：Rosenbloom, David H.
作者单位：American University
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作者：Stivers, Camilla
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University
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作者：Christensen, Robert K.; Wise, Charles R.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Federalism jurisprudence shapes the powers that public administrators have to achieve policy priorities. Federalism, however, is neither static nor simplistic as a concept, and a proper understanding of the environment in which public administrators work rests on a careful analysis of U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The authors review claims that a 2005 decision, Gonzales v. Raich, terminated a federalism revolution that had been ushered in a decade earlier. Does Raich in fact mark the end of th...
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作者：DeHart-Davis, Leisha
作者单位：University of Kansas
摘要：Ever since Max Weber identified formal rules as one attribute of bureaucratic organizations, scholars have uncovered a range of cooperative and uncooperative behavioral responses to organizational rules. The question for public management theory and practice is how to design and execute organizational rules in ways that elicit cooperation rather than resistance. Green tape, a theory of effective rules, provides one answer to this question. Green tape theory argues that the cooperation of stake...
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作者：Helfstein, Scott
作者单位：United States Military Academy; United States Department of Defense; United States Army; United States Department of Defense; United States Army; United States Military Academy
摘要：A preoccupation with network approaches in terrorism studies has inadvertently marginalized the fact that terrorist groups are subject to many of the same bureaucratic forces that impact all purposeful organizations. Because typical organizations are subsumed in the concept of networks, it is curious that scholars have been so quick to bypass more traditional models of organizations and bureaucracy that may help us understand network topology. This article relies on the new institutional appro...
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作者：Denison, Dwight V.; Hackbart, Merl; Moody, Michael J.
作者单位：University of Kentucky; University of Kentucky; University of Kansas
摘要：Discussions about congressional earmarking often focus on their direct costs in the federal government's appropriations bills. This article shows that this conventional view neglects the administrative costs of earmarking by examining the extensive transaction and opportunity costs that come with the political, budgetary, and programmatic management of these earmarked projects in Congress and in the Office of Naval Research. One policy conclusion from this study is that the executive branch sh...
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作者：John, Peter
作者单位：University of Manchester; University of Manchester
摘要：Nancy Alfaro is the quintessential practitioner of collaborative public management. More than that, she is a collaborative public manager focused on delivering customer service. Finding herself in the midst of a flurry of activity when San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom suddenly ordered her to allow same-sex marriages in 2004, she pulled together the resources to perform more than 1,000 weddings in three days. Now, as director of San Francisco's 311 Customer Service Center, Alfaro oversees an op...
