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作者：Levine, Aaron D.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Five states now provide funding for stem cell research, and many states are developing or debating stem cell research policies. Despite this interest, little data exist to help policy makers design policies or forecast the impact of new legislation. This article reports novel data from two surveys: one directed at those most affected by these policies-stem cell scientists-and one at a group of biomedical researchers working in less contentious fields. These data identified relatively high mobi...
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作者：Hood, Christopher
作者单位：University of Oxford
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作者：Tolbert, Caroline J.; Mossberger, Karen; McNeal, Ramona
作者单位：University of Iowa; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; University of Northern Iowa
摘要：Examining the rankings of American states in one fast-growing policy area, e-government, states with the most sophisticated and comprehensive policies varied over a five-year period. What factors account for change in digital government policy innovation over time? Using time-series analysis and 50-state data, the authors find that state institutional capacity is important for continued innovation. They also find an association between reinvention in state governments and the institutionalizat...
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作者：Hildebrand, David L.
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver
摘要：In the foregoing essay, Patricia M. Shields argues that public administration and administrators should support a much greater incorporation of classical pragmatism than has been the case to date. This paper supports that conclusion by focusing on classical pragmatism's central benefit to public administration: its ability to provide the field with a claim to objectivity that it badly needs, but which Shields barely mentions. It shows how objectivity is closely connected to a pragmatic concept...
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作者：Overeem, Patrick
作者单位：Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University
摘要：Dwight Waldo (1913-2000) is commonly known as a heterodox critic of the dichotomy between politics and administration. But is this reputation supported by his writings? It seems to be primarily based on The Administrative State (1948) and other early publications, in which he conceptualized politics/administration narrowly as deciding/executing and, indeed, sharply criticized it. Waldo's later publications, by contrast, offer much broader conceptualizations and a more ambivalent, even positive...
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作者：Chapman, Jeffrey I.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：At the state and local level, fiscal sustainability is the long-run capability of a government to consistently meet its financial responsibilities. It reflects the adequacy of available revenues to ensure the continued provision of the service and capital levels that the public demands. After examining separate revenue and expenditure trends for state and local governments, this article identifies three specific sets of pressures that affect subnational fiscal sustainability-cyclical, structur...
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作者：Svara, James H.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：The Winter Commission report of 1993 stressed cities with the mayor-council form of government and emphasized removing barriers to executive authority in large cities. In order to assess and update the report, it is important to recognize that a majority of cities with populations over 100,000 use the council-manager form, in which restrictions on the executive and fragmented authority are unlikely to be present because of the constitutional principles on which the form is based. There has bee...
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作者：Hall, Jeremy L.; Jennings, Edward T., Jr.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Kentucky
摘要：Recent attention to best practices has resulted in a complex array of terminology and a number of compendia of effective practices that may be daunting to public policy makers and administrators seeking solutions to important public problems. This study clarifies these distinctions and builds on them to create a decision tool that will help policy makers as they use best practice information in program adoption or development. Decision makers must know their goals in seeking out best practices...
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作者：Anagnoson, J. Theodore
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Los Angeles
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作者：Thompson, Frank J.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要：This article draws on the contributions to this issue and related evidence to assay the extent to which the states and larger local governments have moved in directions endorsed by the Winter Commission in 1993. The commission's recommendations targeted (1) the political context of state and local governance, with a particular focus on executive leadership, campaign finance reform, and citizen engagement; (2) the specifics of public administration, with primary emphasis on empowering managers ...
