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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：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...
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作者：Wang, XiaoHu; Van Wart, Montgomery
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida; California State University System; California State University San Bernardino
摘要：This study empirically assesses the argument that public participation enhances public trust. A model was constructed to include five intermediate factors that might link participation and trust: consensus building, ethical behaviors, accountability practices, service competence, and managerial competence. As expected, participation does explain a significant amount of public trust. However, using path analysis, only two intermediate factors-ethical behaviors and service competence-were found ...
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作者：Jones, L. R.; Klingner, Donald E.
作者单位：United States Department of Defense; United States Navy; Naval Postgraduate School; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：Ferrel Heady died on August 16, 2006, at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Together with Fred Riggs, he is widely known and respected as one of the founders of comparative public administration. In this tribute to our friend and colleague, we touch on the highlights of his distinguished career as a scholar, an academic administrator, and a person who lived up to his own high standards of honesty and integrity in every aspect of his life. We assess his body of work, attempt to summarize its ...
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作者：Rethemeyer, R. Karl
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：For at least a decade, scholars have sought ways to remedy citizen dissatisfaction with representative democracy. Recently, the development and deployment of the Internet has been heralded as a technical solution to this problem. Observers often base their optimism on analysis of the Internet's impact on elections and public comment processes. Yet elections do not generate the policies that people resent-policy processes do. So far, we know little about the Internet's role in this critical soc...
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作者：Spicer, Michael W.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University
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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：Page, Stephen
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：In this reply to Catlaw and Chapman's commentary, Dr. Page acknowledges that attention to New Public Management theory is all well and good, but it should not come at the expense of field observation of the associated phenomena.
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作者：Spicer, Michael W.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University
