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作者：LeRoux, Kelly
作者单位：University of Kansas
摘要：Can a more collaborative form of public management correct for the historical link between social and economic status (SES) and political participation? New initiatives to involve the citizen directly in public decision making-citizen governance-aim to include a wider representation of groups in society because they draw from service users and seek to recruit hard-to-reach groups. To test the claim that citizen governance may be more representative than other acts of political participation, t...
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作者：Mostel, Claire
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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：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：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：Kim, Chulwoo
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark
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作者：Justice, Jonathan B.
作者单位：University of Delaware
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作者：Naff, Katherine C.
作者单位：California State University System; San Francisco State University
摘要：In most local developing settings, the political leader and the municipal manager are embodied in the same figure, the directly elected mayor. This research explores the impact of mayoral quality on local public finances in a developing country. Mayoral quality is operationalized as educational background and job-related expertise to analyze its impact on two local financial indicators: property tax collection and social spending per capita. The mayoral quality thesis is tested across 40 Colom...
