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• Reassessing Privatization Strategies 25 Years Later: Revisiting Perry and Babitsky's Comparative Performance Study of Urban Bus Transit Services AI翻译
  作者：Leland, Suzanne; Smirnova, Olga
  作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; University of North Carolina; East Carolina University
  摘要：Privatization appeals to citizen and politician desires for more cost-effective methods of service delivery. For this reason, it is important for public administrators to know when gains can be made by contracting out or privatizing services and when it is better to keep service provision in house. This article assesses the viability of contracting out and privatization of transit services. Following up on the 1986 work of James Perry and Timlynn Babitsky, which used data from the early 1980s,...
• Living in the Past? Change and Continuity in the Norwegian Central Civil Service AI翻译
  作者：Christensen, Tom; Laegreid, Per
  作者单位：University of Oslo; University of Bergen
  摘要：In this article, the authors describe the changes that have taken place in the Norwegian civil service over the past 30 years, focusing on demographic changes in education and gender and on changes in civil servants' tasks, attitudes, and contact patterns. The changes are analyzed using tenure, structural, and demographic perspectives. The unique empirical database is provided by surveys conducted every 10 years of civil servants in the ministries since 1976. The main empirical findings are th...
• Building a New Democracy in Ukraine: The Unacknowledged Issue of Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity in Public Administration Education and Training AI翻译
  作者：Kolisnichenko, Natalya; Rosenbaum, Allan
  作者单位：Odessa Regional Institute for Public Administration, National Academy for Public Administration; National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine; State University System of Florida; Florida International University
  摘要：The fall of the Soviet empire and the transition to democracy that has taken place in Central and Eastern Europe (and elsewhere) during the past three decades has focused new attention on both the processes of, and the issues involved in, democratic institution building. These experiences have shown that issues of linguistic and ethnic difference are often key elements in such matters. Ukraine, a country of considerable strategic importance, has struggled with both the transition to democracy ...