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作者：Ellison, Brian A.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; Appalachian State University
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作者：Callahan, Kathe
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark
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作者：Stanton, Thomas H.
作者单位：Johns Hopkins University
摘要：The federal government uses government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to allocate credit to sectors such as housing and agriculture that are considered to deserve special support. The GSEs illustrate the importance of life cycle in the design and accountability of federal agencies and instrumentalities. Four case studies are presented here. In general market and political dominance and rapid growth are inherent in GSE design. Dominance means inadequate feedback, which can foster poor management ...
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作者：Schachter, Hindy Lauer
作者单位：New Jersey Institute of Technology
摘要：Since the Progressive Era, efficiency has been a cherished administrative value and a key concept in the study of public administration. Despite contemporary attention to other criteria, such as responsiveness and equity, efficiency remains a guiding governmental value and a focus of scholarly writing. Although efficiency is often considered an apolitical value, this article argues that public sector efficiency receives meaning through a political framework. The analysis explores changing defi...
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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：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：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...
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作者：Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：This article describes the evolution of a performance measurement system in a government job training program. In this program, a federal agency establishes performance measures and standards for substate agencies. The performance measurement systems evolution is at least partly explained as a process of trial and error characterized by a feedback loop: The federal agency establishes performance measures, the local managers learn bow to game them, the federal agency learns about gaming and ref...
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作者：Ellison, Brian A.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; Appalachian State University
