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作者：Pfiffner, James P.
作者单位：George Mason University
摘要：For most of U.S. history, presidents have issued signing statements to comment on bills being signed into law. These statements often are hortatory and comment on the merits of the new law. In recent decades, presidents also have used signing statements to indicate portions of laws that they consider unconstitutional. Pointing out such parts of new statutes is not a problem, but indicating that the president may not execute part of the law is problematic. President George W. Bush used signing ...
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作者：Somers, Scott; Svara, James H.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Ensuring that a community is prepared to deal with a disaster is among the many tasks public managers are charged with addressing. Disaster preparedness and response requires adherence to standard planning practices, yet disasters are typically unpredictable. Dealing with disasters, therefore, requires a blend of traditional management skills and improvisation. Furthermore, like other aspects of administrative leadership, the top administrator must blend initiation and responsiveness in intera...
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作者：White, Joseph
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
摘要：Budget reform requires goals that are both good public policy and achievable. The core purpose of budgeting is to consider and relate details and totals. Common demands for reform are dubious because they slight consideration of details. For this reason, too strict a definition of balance would be bad policy; the demand for balance over many decades is neither good policy nor realistic; and multiyear discretionary spending caps can be both bad policy and impractical. Concern about passing annu...
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作者：Williams, Daniel W.
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
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作者：Lambright, W. Henry
作者单位：Syracuse University
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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：Carrizales, Tony
作者单位：Marist College
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作者：Kemp, Roger L.
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作者：Portillo, Shannon; DeHart-Davis, Leisha
作者单位：George Mason University; University of Kansas
摘要：A long-standing contention in the public and private management literatures is that women use rule abidance as a way to compensate for their relative lack of organizational power. Many of the studies making this assertion rely on anecdotal evidence rather than theory-guided empirical studies. In this paper, the authors use survey data collected from four cities in a midwestern state to empirically test gender dimensions of rule abidance. The findings support long-asserted gender differences in...
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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...
