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作者:Brinkerhoff, Derick W.
作者单位:Research Triangle Institute
摘要:Today's global concerns with poverty, instability, and terrorism link international development and security in unprecedented ways and assemble new actors in the foreign policy arena. The lessons of past experience need to better inform current policy and practice. The evolution of thinking on the role of the state, the citizen, and international development management provides clues regarding what works and what research questions remain to be answered. Institutional barriers to cooperation a...
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作者:Stanton, Thomas H.
作者单位:Johns Hopkins University
摘要:The reputation of a president can be enhanced or diminished depending on the quality of federal management. This transition memorandum draws on the insights of the fellows of the National Academy of Public Administration. It urges the next president to (1) set a tone and strengthen organizational infrastructure to promote effective management across government, (2) create an office to monitor potential major risks and ensure adequate response, and (3) pass on to his successor more capable gove...
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作者:Walker, Richard M.; Brewer, Gene A.
作者单位:University of Hong Kong; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要:This article adopts an organizational echelon approach to the study of red tape in public organizations and argues that the nature and extent of red tape will vary at different levels of the organizational hierarchy. These propositions are tested with a multiple-informant survey using a lagged model. The empirical results across the three organizational echelons sampled indicate modest variations in the levels of perceived red tape and major variations in its determinants. Results from the mor...
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作者:Lambright, W. Henry
作者单位:Syracuse University
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作者:Khovanova, Kseniya M.
作者单位:University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
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作者:Rooney, David; McKenna, Bernard
作者单位:University of Queensland
摘要:This article explores a sociological account of practical wisdom in public administrations. Very little research on contemporary applications of wisdom exists, and what research there is has a cognitive bias, largely ignoring sociology. For public organizations to create the conditions for wise practice within themselves and within individual administrators, an understanding of the social relational structures and processes that build and sustain practical wisdom is crucial. Furthermore, given...
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作者:Stephenson, Max O., Jr.
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作者:Plant, Jeremy F.
作者单位:Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要:Rail safety has emerged as a significant issue in the past two years as a result of two major factors: a statistical lack of improvement in rail safety in the past decade, and a catalytic event in the form of a major derailment involving loss of life at Graniteville, South Carolina, in January 2005. The convergence of long-term leveling of rail safety indicators and the shock of a major rail accident prompted the Senate Appropriations Committee to ask the Government Accountability Office to as...
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作者:Berman, Evan M.; West, Jonathan P.
作者单位:Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University; University of Miami
摘要:This study assesses perceptions of managerial emotional intelligence in local government, as well as the practices and polices affecting it. Though few cities offer training programs for managers that are called emotional intelligence, many cities engage in activities that target or address EI skills. This study finds improvement opportunities for managers to become better attuned to the feelings of others and themselves, to better know their own strengths and weaknesses, to better deal with t...
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作者:Khovanova, Kseniya M.
作者单位:University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital