作者：Durant, Robert F.
作者单位：American University
摘要：Prior research has leavened substantially our understanding of how, why, and with what consequences public organizations respond to pressures for administrative reforms. Left underdeveloped theoretically, however, is the hypothesis that agency actors may also assess the ability of administrative reforms both to advance their policy goals and to become weapons in battles within agencies for advancing them. To illustrate this possibility, this article analyzes how the Clinton administrations Nat...
作者：Gazley, Beth
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Privatization research lacks an understanding of the scope and nature of informal service delivery relationships between nonprofits and local government. This article reports on a study of local service delivery partnerships in Georgia using survey and interview data. In addition to assessing the frequency of noncontractual partnerships, this study builds on B. Guy Peters's definition of public private partnerships to delineate the control formality dimensions of these partnerships more clearl...
