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作者：Raffel, Jeffrey A.
作者单位：University of Delaware
摘要：Although education accounts for one-quarter of the United States' state and local government spending, employs one-third of all govern mental employees, and consistently ranks as a high priority of citizens, public administration has neglected public education. This article considers the neglect of public education by public administration scholars, researchers, and practitioners and documents the sparse coverage of public education in textbooks, journals, books, professional association activ...
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作者：Stivers, Camilla; Hummel, Ralph P.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University; University System of Ohio; University of Akron
摘要：Personnel management is vitally important to the maintenance and preservation of the administrative state and its democratic institutions. This reaction critically examines the personnel recommendations made by Floyd W. Reeves and Paul T. David in their study Personnel Administration in the Federal Service. It questions the degree to which there is a coherent set of political and constitutional expectations marking the progress of personnel policy that might enable us to forecast the future, b...
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作者：Thompson, Fred; Gates, Bruce L.
作者单位：Willamette University
摘要：Accurately predicting revenue growth is nearly impossible. Predicting the peaks and valleys of the business cycle is even more hopeless. This matters because tax revenues are largely driven by economic growth. Volatile, unpredictable revenue growth causes all sorts of unpleasant responses on the part of governments, most commonly manic-depressive patterns of spending and taxing. Fortunately, modern financial economics gives us a set of tools that can be used to manage volatility. This article ...
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作者：Nabatchi, Tina
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：This article uses resource dependence and institutional theory to examine the implementation of the Administrative Dispute Resolution Acts of 1990 and 1996. The insights from these theories are employed to explain the diffusion of and variation in the application of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to different programmatic areas. Although agencies have generally complied with the direct requirements of the acts, their intent has not been fully realized. Several factors have complicated th...
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作者：Yang, Kaifeng; Hsieh, Jun Yi
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：The research on government performance measurement has been largely descriptive and prescriptive, with only limited attention paid to hypothesis testing and middle-range theory construction. Although researchers have made prescriptions about how to make performance management work, the validity of those prescriptions has not been systematically examined. In particular the role of the external political environment and stakeholder participation, two important factors for public sector managemen...
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作者：Heikkila, Tanya; Isett, Kimberley Roussin
作者单位：Columbia University; Columbia University
摘要：Performance management and citizen participation are being used by local governments to improve government accountability and responsiveness. In some cases, local governments are integrating these two trends. One area of local government in which this trend has not been assessed is special districts. This paper uses data from a study of nine special districts in the state of Texas to fill this void. To assess citizen participation in performance management among the districts, we interviewed d...
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作者：Sanchez, Thomas W.; Wolf, James
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
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作者：Van Wart, Montgomery
作者单位：California State University System; California State University San Bernardino
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作者：O'Keefe, Sean
作者单位：Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University
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作者：DeHart-Davis, Leisha
作者单位：University of Kansas
摘要：After 60 years of scholarship on the rule-bound bureaucratic personality, this article turns attention to the un bureaucratic personality. Identified by a willingness to bend rules, the unbureaucratic personality is thought to be influenced by individual and workplace attributes. The individual attributes investigated in this article include nonconformity, risk propensity, and public service commitment, all of which are expected to stimulate the unbureaucratic personality. Workplace attributes...
