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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...
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作者：Mahoney, Christine
作者单位：Syracuse University
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作者：Riccucci, Norma M.; Thompson, Frank J.
摘要：This article examines the George W. Bush administration's efforts to apply New Public Management reforms to the Department of Homeland Security. The primary focus is the administration's attempt to implement the law. The managerial strategy that Department of Homeland Security and Office of Personnel Management executives used to carry out the law in the massive new department receives attention, with a special focus on the approach used in dealing with the federal courts. The article suggests...
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作者：Moynihan, Donald P.; Silva, Carol L.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：Local election officials are the administrators of democracy, but we know little about their views. This paper draws from two national surveys of local election officials. The authors find that local election officials generally support the goals of the federal Help America Vote Act but are less enthusiastic about the actual impact of the legislation. Implementation theory helps explain their evaluation of federal reforms. Goal congruence with reform mandates, resource availability, and a will...
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作者：Cain, Bruce E.; Mac Donald, Karin; Murakami, Michael H.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：While there is a growing academic literature about mail-in ballots, there has been no serious academic research to date on overseas voters, even though the counting of overseas military ballots figured into the 2000 presidential election controversy. The participation of nearly 4 million overseas voters, both civilian and military, is governed by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. The authors examine the reported perceptions of military and nonmilitary voters covered by t...
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作者：Montjoy, Robert S.
作者单位：University of Louisiana System; University of New Orleans
