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作者：Shields, Patricia M.
作者单位：Texas State University System; Texas State University San Marcos
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作者：Ingraham, Patricia Wallace
作者单位：Syracuse University
摘要：The federal civil service has developed in fits and starts, with specific reforms fashioned in reaction to the particular political considerations of a given time. Yet the concept of merit has remained a central, albeit malleable, sometimes neglected, and perhaps quaint ideal. Reinvention, efficiency, and effectiveness must honor excellence and the notion of public service as a calling.
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作者：Candreva, Philip J.
摘要：Two recent examinations Of management practices in three federal departments provide contemporary evidence of the need to incorporate procedures like those of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the public sector. Although each department established what appeared to be well-designed internal controls, all lacked sufficient monitoring and assessment of the efficacy of those controls. By requiring senior management to attest to the strength of their control mechanisms, as required by the newly revised OM...
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作者：Scott, James K.
作者单位：University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
摘要：To what extent do local government Web sites support practical meaningful public involvement? Fifteen years after the adoption and diffusion of the World Wide Web, the answer to this question remains cloudy and controversial. The promise - and peril - of Web-based public involvement, known as e-democracy, has been widely debated. Much of the debate has focused on theoretical abstractions or extrapolations of current political or technological trends. Empirical studies have been limited to repo...
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作者：Andranovich, G
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Los Angeles
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作者：Bertelli, Anthony
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：This paper employs theories of structural politics and delegation to develop a set of propositions about the legislative delegation of authority to quasi-governmental entities, known as quangos. Legislators have incentives to condition their choice of structure for an organization charged with implementing policy on their own political attitudes toward good government. The quasi-independence of quangos provides credibility for legislators to commit to a process that takes policy making out of ...
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作者：Brandsen, Taco; Boogers, Marcel; Tops, Pieter
作者单位：Tilburg University
摘要：Soft governance is an approach to policy implementation in which the central government relies less on hierarchy than on information to steer local organizations. This allows for a combination of formal accountability and professional autonomy that improves the quality of public services in both the short and the long term. Guidelines of an advisory, unofficial status are one tool that central government can use for this purpose. However, an inherent problem with this approach is that even tho...
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作者：Eisinger, Peter
作者单位：The New School
摘要：The terror attacks of September 11, 2001, posed a set of security challenges for the nation's cities that the increasingly decentralized federal system was poorly prepared to meet. Although it was generally agreed that domestic security required a close intergovernmental partnership, strong national leadership and support were lacking in creating and guiding this partnership. To make matters more difficult, political considerations in Congress generally trumped the assessment of security risks...
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作者：Rouse, John
作者单位：Ball State University
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作者：Meyers, RT
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore County
