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作者：Malatesta, Deanna; Cheema, Faisal Saeed
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：This study extends relational contract theory by showing how behavioral reference points can be established through policy. We theorize that contracts are governed by dual anchors: backward-looking relational history and forward-looking renewal expectations. Analyzing 430 public legal service contracts using Heckman selection models, we find relational history increases prices in amendments, revealing its dark side. A nonbinding renewal clause, however, significantly attenuates this effect, re...
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作者：Ba, Yuhao
作者单位：National University of Singapore
摘要：We study the impact of policy venue specialization, the deliberate creation of domain-specific, expertise-intensive institutions, on environmental policy compliance. Leveraging a recent institutional reform in China, where municipal-level environmental courts were introduced to strengthen China's environmental governance, we use a multi-period difference-in-differences approach to assess their influence on environmental misconduct among a key group of policy targets: local businesses. Our find...
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作者：Seo, Danbi
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix
摘要：Sustaining collaboration over time is vital for its effectiveness and long-term success but presents challenges, especially for actors with capacity constraints. This study introduces capacity tensions as a central challenge in collaborative efforts, referring to the strain that arises when the capacity needed for effective engagement exceeds the capacity actors have available. This gap creates competing demands, as actors must balance what they can realistically contribute with what the colla...
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作者：Stark, Alastair; Gajural, Hridesh; Corbett, Jack; Grube, Dennis C.; Lovell, Heather; Scott, Rodney J.
作者单位：University of Queensland; Australian National University; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
摘要：Existing research suggests that a lack of institutional memory causes history to repeat in problematic ways within public administration agencies. However, this claim has not been well supported by theory or data that illuminate the process and effects of history repeating. To remedy this, the nascent concept of institutional amnesia is presented here as a means of theorizing repetitions of public administrative history. A sequential explanatory mixed method research design uses quantitative s...
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作者：Closs-Davies, Sara C.; Bartels, Koen P. R.; Merkl-Davies, Doris
作者单位：University of Manchester; Alliance Manchester Business School; University of Birmingham; Bangor University
摘要：Public administration plays a fundamental role in accountability relationships between citizens and the State, but how these take shape in public encounters is remarkably understudied. Analyzing relational dynamics within and around public encounters expands the relational perspective on accountability in public administration-challenging core assumptions of the principal-agent model underpinning studies of citizen-State accountability relationships. We conducted a critical-interpretivist ethn...
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作者：Page, Stephen
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：This article investigates how implementation collaborations between law enforcement and mental health organizations generate resilience to sustain and adapt themselves in volatile environments. Data come from interviews with practitioners and reviews of media and planning, and program documents in four distinct local settings. The study extends understanding of resilience in three ways. First, it examines practices to build interorganizational resilience from different strands of literature-bo...
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作者：Li, Yanwei; Yu, Hongbo
作者单位：Shandong University; Shandong University; Nanjing Normal University
摘要：Governments worldwide have established accountability as a key mechanism to promote public employees' work behaviors. In this study, we propose that changes in two critical aspects of accountability-intensity and obligation-have distinct effects on public employees' work drive. Increased accountability intensity, characterized by close supervision and strict sanctions, can reduce intrinsic motivation and decrease public employees' willingness to engage in their tasks proactively. Conversely, t...
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作者：Wong, Jade
作者单位：Monash University
摘要：Street-level organizations, which implement public policy on behalf of the state, often operate under unstable conditions. Workers routinely face resource shortfalls, complex client interactions, and ever-changing rules, prompting them to develop coping strategies. These instabilities, while disruptive, tend to be predictable, allowing those coping strategies to stabilize into routines that effectively constitute de facto, as distinct from de jure, policy. But what happens when instability bec...
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作者：Krause, George A.; Hong, Ji Hyeun
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：The timely disbursement of government program benefits is a core attribute of effective administration. In recent decades, American states charged with administering unemployment insurance programs have instituted information technology (IT) modernization reforms to improve the timely delivery of unemployment benefits. Variation among those 28 states instituting IT modernization reforms between 2002 and 2022 reveals that these reforms improved the timely delivery of initial unemployment benefi...
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作者：Kaplaner, Constantin; Knill, Christoph; Steinebach, Yves
作者单位：University of Munich; Zeppelin University; University of Oslo
摘要：Recent research suggests that additional public policies can sometimes decrease overall policy effectiveness rather than improve the problem-solving capacity of the state. This occurs when new policies are not supported by additional administrative capacities, leading to an overburdened administration. Public authorities handle the increased workload by employing policy triage, which involves reallocating resources among different policies. Despite this straightforward argument, a systematic u...
