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作者：Corder, J. Kevin
作者单位：Western Michigan University
摘要：The Federal Reserve System struggled to maintain order in U.S. credit markets as rapid declines in home prices led to huge write-downs in the value of mortgage-backed securities held by financial institutions. The Fed could have taken a number of steps-in the mortgage market or through broader regulatory actions-to either preempt or mitigate the impact of this market disruption. Broader regulatory actions-in the mortgage market, of risk taking by financial institutions, or in the form of actio...
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作者：Yang, Kaifeng; Hsieh, Jun Yi; Li, Tzung Shiun
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University of Taipei; Taipei Municipal University Education
摘要：Contracting out has become a popular strategy in public service delivery, but it remains uncertain whether and how government can ensure contracting performance. As a result, a growing literature emphasizes the importance of governments' contracting capacities. Yet very few studies have empirically assessed how contracting capacities relate to contracting performance. This article identifies four types of contracting capacities in terms of agenda setting, contract formulation, contract impleme...
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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：Feiock, Richard C.; Jang, Hee Soun
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; California State University System; California State University Fullerton
摘要：Despite the growing role that contracts with nonprofits play in local service delivery, only limited attention has been directed to why some cities rely more on nonprofit organizations to produce services or how political institutions influence the role nonprofits play in service delivery. To investigate these issues, the authors present a transaction cost explanation that focuses on how political system characteristics and structures of service markets shape the costs of negotiating, monitori...
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作者：Shields, Patricia M.
作者单位：Texas State University System; Texas State University San Marcos
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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：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...
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作者：Khademian, Anne M.
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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...
