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作者：Feldman, MS; Khademian, AM
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Governance structures constrain and enable the actions of public managers. Principal-agent theory has played a dominant role in our understanding of governance structures. This theory suggests that politicians create relatively static governance structures in a top-clown fashion and hold managers accountable for mandated results. In other words, public managers are influenced by governance structures but do not affect governance structures.. However, we argue that public managers do affect gov...
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作者：McGuire, M
作者单位：University of North Texas System; University of North Texas Denton
摘要：Measuring management in networks is difficult because the allocation of managerial resources in network structures is fluid-that is, the utilization of management behaviors varies across time and space within a given program or project. As a means of focusing the network management research agenda, propositions based in contingency logic are suggested to test ideas regarding when, why, and how network managers undertake these behaviors. The propositions ore intended to identify the vast invent...
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作者：Thurmaier, K; Wood, C
作者单位：Iowa State University; University of Kansas
摘要：Public policies addressing complex issues require transjurisdictional solutions, challenging hierarchical modes of public-service delivery. Interlocal agreements (ILAs) are long-established service-delivery instruments for local governments, and research suggests they are plentiful, with a majority of cities and counties involved in at least one ILA. Although ILAs are an established feature of local government operations, previous research is atheoretical, largely descriptive, and unsystematic...
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作者：Kim, S
作者单位：Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Las Vegas
摘要：Researchers and practitioners in both the public and private sectors agree that participative man agement improves employees' job satisfaction. Public agencies have also turned to strategic planning to enhance government performance and accountability This study explores the relationship between participative management in the context of the strategic planning and job satisfaction in local government agencies. The results of multiple regression analysis show that managers' use of a participati...
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作者：Kennedy, SS; Bielefeld, W
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Purdue University in Indianapolis; Purdue University System; Purdue University; Purdue University in Indianapolis
摘要：As President Bush plans to expand Charitable Choice, civil libertarians worry that the legislation is part of a new assault on separation of church and state. Religious Right activists demand assurances that funds will not flow to groups like the Nation of Islam or Scientologists. African American pastors in urban areas-arguably the main targets of the initiative-are concerned that government shekels will be accompanied by government shackles, that the costs and regulatory burdens accompanying...
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作者：Segal, L
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System
摘要：Reformers hove traditionally assumed that agencies can combat corruption through controls such as tighter oversight, increased regulation, internal audits, reorganizations, and performance accountability mechanisms. But this case study of the New York City school custodial system shows how a corrupt agency can derail these devices. New York City's $500,000,000 custodial system, responsible for maintaining its 1,200 schools, has been unleashing scandals since the 1920s despite decades of regula...
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作者：Bozeman, B
摘要：The familiar market-failure model remains quite useful for issues of price efficiency and traditional utilitarianism, but it has many shortcomings as a standard for public-value aspects of public policy and management. In a public-value-failure model, I present criteria for diagnosing values problems that are not easily addressed by market-failure models. Public-value failure occurs when: (1) mechanisms for values articulation and aggregation have broken down; (2) imperfect monopolies occur; (...
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作者：Beckett, J
作者单位：University System of Ohio; University of Akron
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作者：Moser, M; Rubenstein, R
作者单位：George Washington University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：For over 30 years, the distribution of educational opportunities and the equality of education funding across communities has generated considerable interest among policy makers, the public, and the courts. This article takes advantage of national data sets to examine funding equality across school districts in 49 states for fiscal years 1992 and 1995. It presents rankings of each state's funding equality and explores factors that may be related to the level of equality within states and to ch...
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作者：Dubnick, MJ
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark
