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作者：Robinson, Chester A.; Hoyer, Thomas; Blackford, Carol
作者单位：East Tennessee State University
摘要：This case study traces the creation and evolution Of Medicare hospice policy. The Medicare hospice benefit, created in 1982, emphasizes palliative rather than curative care. It focuses on quality of life for the dying patient and family and encompasses medical, psychological, and spiritual care. Because no standard hospice care practices existed before this benefit was implemented. Medicare rules almost exclusively dictated the structure and delivery of services. Despite initial concerns about...
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作者：Rosenbloom, David H.
作者单位：American University
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作者：White, Joseph
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
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作者：Drori, Israel; Weizmann, Chaim
作者单位：American University
摘要：This case study considers how a minority stakeholder group of Israeli settlers blocked Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's peace initiatives. Drawing on interviews with those who served in Rabin's administration and with the settlers' leaders, this article contends that the prime minister's use of adversarial public rhetoric against the settlers denied the legitimacy of an influential stakeholder group, triggering a backlash of intense militancy from the right-wing minority. This, coupled with Rabi...
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作者：Yang, Kaifeng; Callahan, Kathe
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark
摘要：This article addresses the efforts of local governments to involve citizens in administrative processes. In particular, we explore the following questions: What social and political groups in the community promote citizen involvement? Which groups awre likely to succeed? What barriers obstruct citizen involvement efforts? Do administrative attitudes make a difference in undertaking citizen involvement? Using survey data, this study tests a framework that assumes the decision to involve citizen...
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作者：Wadsworth, Lori L.; Owens, Bradley P.
作者单位：Brigham Young University
摘要：This study examines the impact of social support on work-family conflict and work-family enhancement. Data from 341 employees of public organizations showed that social support, especially from work sources, reduced the level of work interference with family, one direction of work-family conflict. In addition, all nonfamily sources of social support related positively to work enhancement of family, and all sources of social support, except that received from a supervisor positively correlated ...
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作者：Stephen, K. Ma
作者单位：Syracuse University
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作者：Moynihan, Donald P.; Pandey, Sanjay K.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Kansas
摘要：In seeking to explain the antecedents of public service motivation, James Perry focuses on the formative role of sociohistorical context. This study tests Perry theory and examines the role that organizational factors play in shaping public service motivation, based on responses from a national survey of state government health and human service managers. The findings support the role of sociohistorical context, showing that public service motivation is strongly and positively related to level...
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作者：Derthick, Martha
作者单位：University of Virginia; Brookings Institution
摘要：The governmental response to Hurricane Katrina was not the unalloyed failure that is often portrayed. The response was a mixture Of Success and failure. Successes occurred when a foundation had been laid for intergovernmental cooperation, as with the largely successful pre-landfall evacuation of Greater New Orleans, the multistate mobilization of the National Guard, and the search and rescue operations of the U.S. Coast Guard and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. Postmortems ...
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作者：Mathur, Navdeep; Skelcher, Chris
作者单位：University of Birmingham; University of Birmingham
摘要：Network governance can enhance democratic practice by furnishing new routes for actors to deliberate, make, and execute public policy. But it is hindered by a lack of political oversight, limited democratic competence of new organizational forms, and informality of operation. Little research has been conducted on the democratic performance of governance networks, and the methodology is poorly developed. Quality-of-democracy studies of national governmental and political systems offer a startin...
