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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：Demir, Tansu; Nyhan, Ronald C.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Springfield; State University System of Florida; Florida Atlantic University
摘要：The politics-administration dichotomy has been one of the most disputed theories of public administration. Despite serious critiques, neither the theoretical utility nor the normative power of the dichotomy has totally disappeared over the past decades. The dichotomy has been advocated on the grounds that the dichotomous division of labor and authority between elected and administrative officials increases the democratic accountability and planning ability of public administrators. This articl...
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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：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：Azimi, Vida
作者单位：Universite Paris-Pantheon-Assas
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作者：Plant, Jeremy F.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University
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作者：Warner, Mildred E.; Hefetz, Amir
作者单位：Cornell University; Technion Israel Institute of Technology
摘要：The privatization experience of U.S. municipalities shows declining use of complete contracts and a dramatic rise in mixed public private delivery (joint contracting) of city services. The analysis here shows that city managers have recognized the need to move beyond a simple dichotomy between market delivery and public planning to an approach that balances concerns with efficiency, market management, and citizen satisfaction. The New Public Management stresses the importance of competition an...
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作者：Svara, James H.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Dwight Waldo's conception of the politics-administration question might be better understood as a relationship that contains elements of separation and intermixture rather than a dichotomy, according to this author-commentator. To suggest that Waldo came to support the dichotomy presumes agreement about the meaning of the concept that is missing in Waldo's writings and in the public administration literature.
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作者：Lambright, W. Henry
作者单位：Syracuse University
摘要：The U.S. government-science relationship, which helped win World War II, put a man on the moon, unravel the human genome, and nurture economic growth, is troubled. Money is one reason. However, far more than funding, the tensions between government and science are about politics and policy management. Many scientists and their allies argue that the Bush administration has crossed the line separating appropriate control of information from political interference. That is, there has been a polit...
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作者：Auer, Matthew R.
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：The pathologies of the presidential appointment process are well documented and include appointees' frequent lack of federal government work experience and their short appointment tenures. Less well understood are whether and to what extent these problems affect different subsets of high-level appointees, such as administrators in the environmental bureaucracy. Top-tier environmental appointees tend to stay longer in their appointed positions than do presidential appointees generally, and more...
