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作者:Coe, Charles K.
作者单位:North Carolina State University
摘要:What type of oversight should states exercise over local units in order to prevent fiscal crises? This article discusses a sequence of three best practices that some states use to prevent fiscal emergencies. They first monitor local government finances to predict fiscal distress. After detecting signs of fiscal distress, states actively assist local units in ameliorating the problem. Finally, assistance notwithstanding, if a situation becomes grave, states require local units to take strong re...
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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:Hird, John A.
作者单位:University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
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作者:Hood, Christopher
作者单位:University of Oxford
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作者:Lejano, Raul
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要:This essay develops a theory of how institutions can work through the web of social relationships that exist in a place rather than through formal, bureaucratic lines of authority. In contrast to models that characterize institutions as organizational structures, roles, and patterns of exchange, this model depicts institutions as constituted primarily through the active working and reworking of relationships. Rather than adopt the network literature's focus on the overall pattern of relationsh...
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作者:Rosenbloom, David H.
作者单位:American University
摘要:This article distinguishes the competing interpretations of the politics-administration dichotomy, noting that as, originally framed, it was intended to detach partisan politics and patronage from sound public management. Waldo, the author suggests, concerned himself with the later, more expansive conception of the dichotomy, which included the process of policy making.
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作者:Perry, James L.; Brudney, Jeffrey L.; Coursey, David; Littlepage, Laura
作者单位:Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University
摘要:This study examines the relationship between public service motivation and antecedents believed to be important determinants of moral commitment. Research conducted during the past decade indicates that public service motivation is a valid construct that is useful for predicting outcomes that are important to public organizations and to society. The sample for the empirical study consists of winners of the Daily Point of Light Award and the President's Community Volunteer Award. Antecedents st...
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作者:Stephenson, Max O., Jr.
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作者:Fn'Piere, Patricia A
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作者:Wichowsky, Amber; Moynihan, Donald P.
作者单位:University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要:Governments increasingly require administrators to develop outcome measurements that reflect a program's impact on society. But standard approaches to performance measurement have neglected the impact on citizenship outcomes-the individual civic capacities and dispositions and social bonds of civic reciprocity and trust. The concept is adapted from the growing policy feedback literature in political science, which offers strong empirical evidence that certain policies have measurable effects o...