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作者：Provan, KG; Veazie, MA; Staten, LK; Teufel-Shone, NI
作者单位：University of Arizona; University of Arizona
摘要：Community partnerships or networks of collaborating public and nonprofit organizations ore an important way of addressing a wide range of problems and needs that communities face. In the academic literature, network analysis has been used to analyze and understand the structure of the relationships that make up multiorganizational partnerships. But this tool is not well-known outside the small group of researchers who study networks, and it is seldom used as a method of assisting communities. ...
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作者：Kloha, P; Weissert, CS; Kleine, R
作者单位：Michigan State University; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：One of the thorniest issues of intergovernmental fiscal relations Is state oversight of local fiscal affairs. States have oversight responsibility and must take action when local governments run afoul of responsible fiscal behavior Less accepted is how states can detect local financial difficulties before they become emergencies that require state takeover. Research in the 1970s provided some assistance to states wishing to recognize local financial emergencies. But the time has come to look a...
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作者：Lewis, CW
作者单位：University of Connecticut
摘要：This study examines U.S. public opinion on civil liberties and security in response to the politically pivotal events of September 11, 2001 -what shape it Is in, what shapes it, and what it shapes. Public opinion is a critical restraint on political and administrative action today because so many regulators, rule makers, and law enforcers are making decisions or advocating policies that directly affect the balance between liberty and security. The general importance that is popularly attribute...
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作者：Page, S
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Interpretations of the emergence of the New Public Management are split. The champions of the movement present it as a new administrative paradigm that departs sharply from past thinking and practice, whereas skeptics argue it has evolved incrementally from past administrative traditions. To assess these views, this article examines recent administrative innovations in the human services that broadly reflect the New Public Management. The findings suggest that these innovations have built incr...
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作者：Boyte, HC
摘要：Developments in public affairs that stress governance-not simply government-hold possibilities for reframing democracy. Governance intimates a paradigm shift in the meaning of democracy and civic agency that is, who is to address public problems and promote the general welfare? The shift involves a move from citizens as simply voters, volunteers, and consumers to citizens as problem solvers and cocreators of public goods; from public leaders, such as public affairs professionals and politician...
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作者：Cogburn, JD
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要：Texas is unique among American state governments in its approach to human resources because it has no central human resource (HR) or personnel office and no comprehensive set of centrally prescribed HR policies and procedures. Given contemporary calls for HR decentralization, Texas is an excellent case study of the practical implications of a decentralized approach to HR. This article examines findings from a survey of state agency HR directors. The results suggest that respondents do not see ...
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作者：Kelly, JM
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University
摘要：The relationship between administrative service performance and citizen satisfaction has been assumed, but not demonstrated, in the application of market models to public service delivery. Although the citizen satisfaction literature cautions that the link between objective and subjective measures of service quality is tenuous at best, public-sector professional organizations define a managerial focus on objective measures of service performance as accountability to citizens for outcomes. What...
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作者：Painter, M
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong
摘要：Hong Kong has been depicted as an administrative state where the civil service is insulated from political and societal forces and enjoys a stable pattern of growth in rewards and status. In these respects, it is similar to other Asian developmental states. In Asia, as in the West, traditions underlying the administrative state are being challenged. The Hong Kong civil service has recently come under serious criticism as a result of a major fiscal crisis and a series of administrative failures...
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作者：Miller, HT; Jaja, C
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida Atlantic University
摘要：This article investigates the discipline of public administration as it is manifested in symposium articles published during the period 1985-99. What was the field trying to accomplish? The method of investigation is narrative analysis. Using specific discourse markers (method, substantive contents, and authorial intentions), the authors found a wide variety of purposes and projects in the symposia investigated. The condition of public administration, they conclude, is distinguished by a radic...
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作者：Srinivas, N
