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作者：Garnett, James L.; Marlowe, Justin; Pandey, Sanjay K.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; University of Kansas
摘要：The role of communication in public administration has been emphasized over time in public administration theory. Nonetheless, communication-with the exception of political communication-has been neglected in scholarship. Garnett's performance predicament posits the difficulty of showing linkages between communication and performance. This paper explores the role that communication plays in achieving organizational performance through a review of research that bears on communication direct and...
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作者：Ferguson, Margaret R.; Bowling, Cynthia J.
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Purdue University in Indianapolis; Auburn University System; Auburn University
摘要：One of the key recommendations of the Winter Commission was the empowerment of governors over the executive branch. However, key institutions have not evolved in this direction; the long ballot still exists in most states, and the formal powers of governors have strengthened to their probable capacity. The authors suggest that a quasi-formal power-the gubernatorial use of executive orders-may be a significant tool for empowering the governor in the state administrative realm. Analyzing all exe...
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作者：Hird, John A.
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
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作者：Nigro, Lloyd G.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
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作者：Ni, Anna Ya; Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei
作者单位：California State University System; California State University San Bernardino; Indiana University System; Indiana University Indianapolis
摘要：In 2005, Congress passed the Real ID Act despite decades of stalemate in reforming the U.S. national ID system. Using John Kingdon's policy streams framework, the authors examine the development of reform ideas, the opening of a policy window and the shift in the national mood after the 9/11 attacks, and the legislative tactics by the George W. Bush administration that led to the passage of the act. The analysis illustrates the significance of policy entrepreneurship in national crises but als...
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作者：Vizzard, William J.
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Sacramento
摘要：No civilian government agency in the United States has received as much attention from authors as the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Much of the early writing consisted of laudatory pieces that parroted the output of the agency's extensive public relations apparatus. This was followed by a reactive era of critical literature following the Watergate scandal and the death of J. Edgar Hoover. This article surveys the key literature on this controversial agency, including both perspectives and i...
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作者：Klingner, Donald E.
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
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作者：Klingner, Donald E.
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
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作者：Trottier, Tracey; Van Wart, Montgomery; Wang, XiaoHu
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University South Bend; California State University System; California State University San Bernardino; State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida
摘要：Though the mainstream organizational literature has advanced in the last 20 years with the integration Of transformational and distributed leadership theories, as well as genuine attempts at comprehensive models, the public sector literature has lagged, especially in utilizing large-scale empirical studies. This study takes advantage of a very large government data set to test the utility of one of the best known theories, the full range leadership theory of Bernard Bass. It addresses three im...
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作者：Demir, Tansu; Nyhan, Ronald C.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Springfield; State University System of Florida; Florida Atlantic University
摘要：The politics-administration dichotomy has been one of the most disputed theories of public administration. Despite serious critiques, neither the theoretical utility nor the normative power of the dichotomy has totally disappeared over the past decades. The dichotomy has been advocated on the grounds that the dichotomous division of labor and authority between elected and administrative officials increases the democratic accountability and planning ability of public administrators. This articl...
