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作者：An, Brian Y.; Tang, Shui-Yan
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Southern California
摘要：Most studies in collaborative governance examine system-level or agency-level drivers of the horizontal dimension of collaboration, that is, the specific forms of collaboration among an existing set of actors. Few have examined the vertical dimension, that is, what actors are involved and the scope of collaboration. This study examines the latter issue by studying the implementation of the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), passed in 2014, mandating collaboration among l...
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作者：Madsen, Jonas Krogh; Baekgaard, Martin; Kvist, Jon
作者单位：Roskilde University; Aarhus University
摘要：Financial scarcity is a fundamental condition for recipients of social welfare. We draw on scarcity theory to suggest that the condition of scarce resources may have a range of important psychological consequences for how welfare recipients' cope with their problems, navigate citizen-state interactions, for their perceived ability to deal with their problems, and for their psychological well-being. In a field experiment using Danish unemployed social assistance recipients (N = 2,637), we test ...
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作者：Loberg, Ida Bring
作者单位：Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet)
摘要：Street-level bureaucrats assess increasing amounts of digital, often text-based, client representations. These representations have been criticized for oversimplification. However, frontline workers have also been known to develop simplified perceptions, or shortcuts, in their work. This study explores frontline workers' assessments of digital client representations using observations of 15 needs assessments and 7 follow-up interviews from the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV). ...
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作者：Greer, Robert A.; Moldogaziev, Tima T.; Scott, Ryan P.; Scott, Tyler A.
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Bush School of Government & Public Service; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Colorado State University System; Colorado State University Fort Collins; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Local governments consider a wide range of policies to increase resilience in the face of myriad risks and employ a variety of tactics to communicate about these policies to external actors. An important platform to signal resilience as a policy priority is through the budget process wherein local communities decide who gets what, when, and how. Using computational text mining techniques, we assess how county governments in California signal efforts toward resilience in their budgets during th...
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作者：Park, Joohyung; Favero, Nathan
作者单位：American University
摘要：Despite burgeoning research on representative bureaucracy theory, there is limited examination of how environmental contexts shape the manner in which the demographic makeup of a bureaucracy is linked to distributional bureaucratic outcomes. Scholars in the field of social psychology, however, have suggested that community-level variation in the pervasiveness of biases against particular social groups helps to explain inequitable outcomes in such diverse settings as education, policing, and he...
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作者：Emrich, Colin
作者单位：Gwynedd Mercy University
摘要：Do governmental institutions constrain state actors? I investigate this question by examining the relationship between the design of state legislative fiscal offices and the health of state budgets. These budgetary bodies serve a supporting role for legislatures, designed to advance sound fiscal policy and sustainable public finance. With an original data set encompassing all state legislative budgetary bodies from 1963 to 2014, I estimate the causal effects of nonpartisan fiscal offices on bu...
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作者：Zhang, Fengxiu; Welch, Eric W.
作者单位：George Mason University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Climate change can bring about large-scale irreversible physical impacts and systemic changes in the operating environment of public organizations. Research on preconditions for organizational adaptation to climate change has produced two parallel lines of inquiry, one focusing on macro-level norms, rules, and expectations and the other on meso-level culture, design, and structure within the organization. Drawing on the meta-theory of institutional logics, this study proposes a configurational...
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作者：Wang, Qiushi; Guan, Zhen
作者单位：Sun Yat Sen University
摘要：Transparency has often been hailed as a golden tool to bolster citizens' trust in government and improve public governance. However, there is a considerable disparity in theoretical reasoning and empirical findings. Through a meta-analysis of 49 studies with 436 effect sizes, this study provides novel perspectives for understanding the effect of transparency on citizens' trust in government. To test these mechanisms, we draw on various social science theories such as agency theory, deliberativ...
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作者：Blume, Grant H.
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：This article posits that racialized administrative power is the status quo in the United States and results from a wicked problem broadly construed as institutional racism. Acknowledging a baseline reality of racialized administrative power in the United States allows public administration theory to more directly grapple with the institutional racism that paradoxically may seem too big and complex to empirically study yet simultaneously too important and urgent to ignore. This article offers t...
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作者：Compton, Mallory E.; Young, Matthew M.; Bullock, Justin B.; Greer, Robert
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Scholars have long recognized the role of race and ethnicity in shaping the development and design of policy institutions in the United States, including social welfare policy. Beyond influencing the design of policy institutions, administrative discretion can disadvantage marginalized clientele in policy implementation. Building on previous work on street-level bureaucracy, administrative discretion, and administrative burden, we offer a theory of racialized administrative errors and we exami...
