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作者:Berry, Carolyn; Krutz, Glen S.; Langner, Barbara E.; Budetti, Peter
作者单位:New York University; New York University; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; University of Kansas; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Tulsa
摘要:Many policy problems require governmental leaders to forge vast networks beyond their own hierarchical institutions. This essay explores the challenges of implementation in a networked institutional setting and incentives to induce coordination between agencies and promote quality implementation. It describes the national evaluation of the Assuring Better Child Health and Development program, a state-based program intended to increase and enhance the delivery of child development services for ...
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作者:Moynihan, Donald P.
作者单位:University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要:This article examines learning in networks dealing with conditions of high uncertainty. The author examines the case of a crisis response network dealing with an exotic animal disease outbreak. The article identifies the basic difficulties of learning under crisis conditions. The network bad to learn most of the elements taken for granted in more mature structural forms-the nature of the structural framework in which it was working, bow to adapt that framework, the role and actions appropriate...
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作者:Howell-Moroney, Michael
作者单位:University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Birmingham
摘要:More than five decades have passed since Charles Tiebout wrote his seminal 1956 paper, often cited as the classic apologetic for locally based systems of metropolitan governance. This essay traces the impact of Tiebout's work and subsequent scholarship in public choice, identifying important lessons and lingering issues. Although public choice has demonstrated that polycentric systems are adept and flexible in producing and providing municipal services and a variety of interlocal agreements, t...
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作者:Billis, David
作者单位:University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
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作者:Bryer, Thomas A.
作者单位:State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida
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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:Potoski, Matthew
作者单位:Iowa State University
摘要:The Winter Commission proposed a state and local government procurement reform agenda that placed public managers at the core of a depoliticized, deregulated, and more pragmatic public sector contracting process. Drawing on the literature and data from several state and local government surveys, this article shows that between 1992 and 2003, state and local governments' contracting practices moved in directions consistent with the commission's reform agenda. By 2003, state and local government...
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作者:Feiock, Richard C.; Moon, M. Jae; Park, Hyung Jun
作者单位:State University System of Florida; Florida State University; Yonsei University; Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
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作者:Mahoney, Christine
作者单位:Syracuse University
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作者:King, Cheryl Simrell; Beeby, Megan
摘要:Colleen Jollie, the state tribal liaison at the Washington State Department of Transportation, practices a form of transformational public administration that, at its heart, reflects a Coyote or trickster style of management. In indigenous stories across the world, the trickster uses his or her wiles to disrupt, refuse, and dismantle ways that are not working in order to creatively, and sometimes chaotically, build new ways. Jollie's work as lead tribal liaison has transformed the agency, the ...