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作者：Park, Jinsol; Butler, J. S.; Petrovsky, Nicolai
作者单位：Inha University; University of Kentucky; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：This study aims to advance our knowledge about the role of public participation in formulating budgetary decisions of local governments. By focusing on participatory budgeting as a prominent form of public participation in the budgetary process, we posit that participatory budgeting serves two important roles in aligning the fiscal outcomes of local governments with citizen preferences: (1) increased transparency of the local budget and (2) improved budget literacy of citizens. This study inve...
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作者：Grissom, Jason A.; Darling-Aduana, Jennifer; Hall, Richard
作者单位：Vanderbilt University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：A large body of research shows that clients of government services benefit from the presence of bureaucrats with whom they share race or ethnicity. These benefits arise from active or symbolic representation, which scholars argue are grounded in the shared backgrounds, language, and values that race and ethnicity proxy. We suggest that these shared connections are likely to be even more salient for clients and bureaucrats who share not just the same ethnicity but the same country of origin, an...
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作者：Barboza-Wilkes, Cynthia J.; Le, Thai, V; Resh, William G.
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：In recent years, there have been multiple calls for public administration scholars to adopt an intersectional approach to the study of diversity within public organizations. This paper empirically examines the simultaneous influence of multiple dimensions of individual identity on employee burnout. We advance a better understanding of disparities in individual well-being outcomes for public servants. Using conservation of resource (COR) theory and applied intersectionality, we systematically m...
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作者：Hansen, Gustav Egede; Bel, Germa; Petersen, Ole Helby
作者单位：Roskilde University; University of Barcelona
摘要：While the public and private labor markets are marked by significant differences in the institutions of wage formation, very few studies have examined workers' wages and employment in the public and private sectors when solving the same tasks. Focusing on government contracting out, we examine the changes in work income, employment, and government income benefits when public workers are transferred from a public to a private employer due to contracting out. Drawing on theories on wage gaps bet...
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作者：Boswell, John; Smedley, Stuart
作者单位：University of Southampton
摘要：The purpose of this article is to highlight meta-ethnography-the interpretive synthesis of ethnographic studies on a given theme-as a useful tool in the study of social policy and public administration. We claim this approach can maximize the impact of rich idiographic research to enable theory-refining and evidence-building efforts in the field. We illustrate these benefits through reference to a worked example focused on public encounters with social security in advanced liberal democracies....
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作者：Callens, Chesney
作者单位：University of Antwerp
摘要：Innovation in public services is propelled by collaborations between public actors, private actors, and service users. A substantial literature has centered on the benefits of user involvement in public services, but how user involvement can stimulate collaborative innovation is still largely unknown. This article develops and tests a theoretical framework based on the combined effect of (1) the empowerment of users, (2) specialized knowledge of the users, and (3) the absence of hindering rule...
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作者：Fazekas, Mihaly; Ferrali, Romain; Wachs, Johannes
作者单位：Aix-Marseille Universite; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Vienna University of Economics & Business
摘要：The impacts of money in US politics have long been debated. Building on principal-agent models, we test whether and to what degree companies' political donations lead to their favored treatment in federal procurement. We expect the impact of donations on favoritism to vary by the strength of control by political principals over their bureaucratic agents. We compile a comprehensive dataset of published federal contracts and registered campaign contributions for 2004-15. We develop risk indices ...
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作者：Lazzarini, Sergio G.; Cabral, Sandro; Firpo, Sergio; Teodorovicz, Thomaz
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作者：van der Voet, Joris
作者单位：Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University
摘要：Behavioral theory states that decision-makers engage in search in response to a performance shortfall. However, public administration research has remained remarkably inattentive of decision-makers' attention. This study conceptually disentangles problem-defining and solution-generation as two distinct search objectives, in order to test theoretical expectations concerning individual decision-makers' search in response to negative performance. Using a survey experiment among 1,562 political an...
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作者：Bell, Elizabeth; Meyer, Katharine
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Persistent disparities in program access jeopardize social equity and erode a key pillar of democratic governance. Scholars have uncovered the causes of these disparities, including administrative burden and front-line discrimination, but less attention has been devoted to identifying tools for reducing disparities. We build on this work by arguing that reducing street-level bureaucrats' workload may be a key lever for reducing disparities. We also argue that workload reductions will be especi...
