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作者：O'Connell, L
作者单位：University of Kentucky
摘要：This article applies the concepts of organization field and accountability environment to a government-funded program. It argues that the formula for accountability inspired by agency theory-define performance standards, measure performance, and sanction based on measured performance-is frequently impossible to apply because program accountability can be an emergent property arising from the actions of the major actors in a program's field. Studying a program reform of social service transport...
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作者：Rethemeyer, RK
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
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作者：De Vita, CJ; Twombly, EC
摘要：The Bush administration and some states have promoted charitable tax credits as a way to increase private charitable giving, to support antipoverty programs, and to allow taxpayers to directly determine the utility and effectiveness of nonprofit services. Looking at Arizona's charitable tax credit program, this study assesses the strengths and limitations of this policy approach. Although charitable giving increased during the first two years of the program (1998 and 1999), tax returns from 20...
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作者：Rethemeyer, RK
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
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作者：Rethemeyer, RK
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
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作者：May, PJ
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：This research examines how traditional regulatory and voluntary approaches affect motivations to address potential harms to water quality. The traditional approach consists of governmental enforcement of mandatory requirements; the voluntary approach consists of government calling attention to potential harms and facilitating actions to address them. These approaches are best thought of as ends of a continuum rather than as the sole choices. Three sets of findings emerge from the research. One...
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作者：Norris, DF; Moon, MJ
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore County
摘要：American grassroots governments have rushed to join the e-government revolution. Although there is a growing body of e-government literature, little of it is empirical. Using data from two nationwide surveys, we conduct a longitudinal examination of local government adoption of e-government, Web site sophistication, the perceived impacts of e-government, and barriers to the adoption and sophistication of e-government. We also discuss correlates of e-government adoption and sophistication with ...
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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：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...
