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作者：[Anonymous]
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作者：Schulze, Kai; Schoenefeld, Jonas J.; Nicolay, Marco
作者单位：Technical University of Darmstadt; University of East Anglia; Hochschule Darmstadt
摘要：Many cities and municipalities aim to address climate change, yet their rigid administrative structures often constrain effective action. Therefore, local authorities must innovate to build administrative capacity and enable work across departmental silos. However, we lack knowledge of how such administrative innovations emerge and become more widespread. To address this gap, this article examines administrative innovation from a diffusion perspective, drawing on a novel theoretical framework ...
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作者：Nemeth, Patricia
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System
摘要：Max Weber's rational-legal bureaucracy remains a vital safeguard amid populist backlash, civil service politicization, and democratic backsliding. This article reframes bureaucracy as a conditional democratic safeguard-one that depends on ethical orientation and professional integrity, not technical capacity alone. When legality is hollowed out through obedience or anticipatory compliance, institutions corrode from within. Evidence from recent cases of executive politicization illustrates how ...
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作者：Wang, Jiali; Zhu, Junming; Du, Huibin
作者单位：Tianjin University; Tsinghua University
摘要：Government attention is crucial to policy change and outcome. For local agents, their attention is explained by various factors, and a thorough understanding is needed to integrate diverse perspectives. Combining vertical, horizontal, local, and personal influences, we formulate a conditional embeddedness framework for local agents. The framework explains that agents' attention is primarily directed by principals, but this directed shift is horizontally and locally shaped by political and econ...
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作者：Stalebrink, Odd J.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University
摘要：Bethpage State Park's Black Course offers a rare historical case of administrative capacity emerging under conditions of uncertainty, fiscal constraint, and urgent public purpose during the Great Depression. Built with relief labor and without the benefit of fully developed public administration or budgeting doctrines, the project required administrators to invent workable practices as construction unfolded. Drawing on extensive archival records, this article reconstructs Bethpage as a histori...
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作者：Jiang, Hanchen
作者单位：University of International Business & Economics
摘要：The administrative burden framework suggests that citizens experience psychological costs when interacting with the state. Previous research has primarily focused on context-specific psychological costs, such as stress and loss of autonomy related to particular policies or encounters. This study expands the framework by integrating it with the relational model of authority and the stress and coping theory, and proposes that negative bureaucratic encounters have an adverse impact on citizens' g...
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作者：Yang, Wenhui; Zhu, Ruoyan
作者单位：Peking University; Xiamen University
摘要：Most networking activities in the public administration literature focus on formal networks, yet less attention has been paid to the function of informal networks, which are critical mechanisms for transmitting information and knowledge. This study fills this gap by examining the impact of informal networks on policy tourism, an important channel for policy learning and intergovernmental collaboration. Using China as a case, we indicate that local leaders' informal networks facilitate the init...
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作者：Boykin, Emily; McCue, Clifford; Goldman, David
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Augusta University; State University System of Florida; Florida Atlantic University
摘要：This study examines the persistent gap between budget theory and practice in local governments, using the Government Finance Officers Association's (GFOA) Rethinking Budgeting Initiative as a case study. Analyzing 32 GFOA publications from 2020 to 2024, we identify four key themes in the GFOA's attempt to modernize budgetary decision-making: public values, behavioral science, coordination and collaboration, and fiscal prudence. Through a narrative synthesis grounded in budget theory, we find n...
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作者：Tu, Wenyan; Xiao, Hanyu; Ni, Xing
作者单位：Fudan University; Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK); Renmin University of China
摘要：The intriguing paradox of wide public disdain for corruption alongside popular corrupt politicians exists globally. By speaking to public ethics theory and rational choice theory, this study examines the trade-off in which citizens tolerate corrupt officials in exchange for their competence to deliver public benefits. Using a conjoint experiment embedded in a sample of 30,521 surveys across 60 cities from 33 nationalities (regions) in 2023, this study yields three findings. First, mayoral cand...
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作者：Vantaggiato, Francesca; Lubell, Mark; Nowlin, Matthew C.; Yusuf, Juita-Elena (Wie); Shafiee-Jood, Majid
作者单位：University of London; King's College London; University of California System; University of California Davis; University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington; Old Dominion University; University of Virginia
摘要：Adaptation to sea-level rise confronts coastal communities worldwide with a new set of collective action problems that require collaboration. When does collaboration result in concrete action for adaptation? To address this question, we combine the Ecology of Games and Collaborative Governance frameworks using a comparative analysis of three coastal regions in the United States. We leverage original survey data from the San Francisco Bay Area in California (2018, N = 878), the Tri-County (Char...
