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作者：Limbocker, Scott; Resh, William G.; Selin, Jennifer L.
作者单位：United States Military Academy; United States Department of Defense; United States Army; University of Southern California; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
摘要：To preserve democratic accountability, the actions of federal agencies remain subject to review by elected officials in the legislative and executive branches. Yet given the vast scope and complexity of the modern federal government, elected officials cannot possibly intervene in all agency matters. This leaves the courts to evaluate agency actions. Applying Rosenbloom's separation of powers theory of public administration to Nagel's theory of power as anticipated exchange, we expect that agen...
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作者：Sulitzeanu-Kenan, Raanan; Tepe, Markus; Yair, Omer
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Carl von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg
摘要：This study presents a theoretical model of honest behavior in the public sector (public-sector honesty) and its relationship with corruption. We test this model empirically by utilizing and extending a unique data set of honest behavior of public- and private-sector workers across 40 countries, gathered in a field experiment conducted by Cohn et al. (N = 17,303). We find that public-sector honesty is determined by country-level societal culture and public-sector culture; public-sector honesty ...
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作者：Shoub, Kelsey
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：The deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor brought discussions of race and policing to the forefront in the summer of 2020 in the United States, spurring protests and calls for policing reform. However, enacting successful reforms curtailing racially biased policing requires understanding whether bias is widespread, likely tied to systemic sources, or the work of a few racist officers. This study elaborates on these perspectives by drawing on theories of systemic and individual bias that ma...
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作者：Xiao, Shiyang; Zhu, Xufeng
作者单位：Syracuse University; Tsinghua University
摘要：Bureaucratic control, the constraint that a superior imposes on subordinate agencies' discretion through guidelines, is ubiquitous in administrative organizations. Despite scholarly discussions on the merits and shortcomings of bureaucratic control, we still know little about the impact of the extents of bureaucratic control on subordinates' compliance patterns. In this article, we argue that bureaucratic control might intensify subordinates' burdens and incentivize them to strategically reduc...
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作者：Lee, Sungyoon; Chen, Gang
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：The increasing risk of natural and human-induced disasters has caused considerable costs to governments. Governments' savings can function as a mechanism to mitigate such revenue or expenditure shocks due to disasters. While past studies have examined how recessions affect government reserves, to date, few studies have tested how a government's past experiences of natural disasters affect the level of its savings. In this study, we use organizational learning theory as a framework to explain t...
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作者：Zambrano-Gutierrez, Julio C.; Puppim de Oliveira, Jose A.
作者单位：Getulio Vargas Foundation; Getulio Vargas Foundation; Technical University of Munich
摘要：Understanding the effects of different sources of knowledge acquisition in public organizations has become widely promoted for overcoming sociotechnical challenges through innovation. This study divided the sources of knowledge into external and internal learning mechanisms to assess their divergent effects on incremental and transformative innovations in 82 local governments involved in green and blue infrastructure projects. First, the study tests whether more diverse external sources of kno...
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作者：Struthers, Cory L.; Scott, Tyler A.; Fleischman, Forrest; Arnold, Gwen
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of California System; University of California Davis; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Research on political control over government bureaucracy has primarily focused on direct exercises of power such as appointments, funding, agency design, and procedural rules. In this analysis, we extend this literature to consider politicians who leverage their institutional standing to influence the decisions of local field officials over whom they have no explicit authority. Using the case of the US Forest Service (USFS), we investigate whether field-level decisions are associated with the...
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作者：Assouline, Michaela; Gilad, Sharon; Bloom, Pazit Ben-Nun
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：Exploiting rare access to doctors' real-world judgments of incapacity benefits applications to an Israeli governmental program (2015-17), we examine the prevalence and underlying mechanisms of discrimination against Muslims versus Jews. To mitigate confounding explanations for unequal treatment, we restrict the analysis to claimants whose applications passed a strict medical-disability threshold so that their medical condition was undisputed. Theoretically, we offer a comprehensive theoretical...
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作者：Linos, Elizabeth; Ruffini, Krista; Wilcoxen, Stephanie
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Georgetown University
摘要：Government agencies around the world struggle to retain frontline workers, as high job demands and low job resources contribute to persistently high rates of employee burnout. Although four decades of research have documented the predictors and potential costs of frontline worker burnout, we have limited causal evidence on strategies that reduce it. In this article, we report on a multicity field experiment (n = 536) aimed at increasing perceived social support and affirming belonging among 91...
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作者：Coupet, Jason; Schehl, Madeline
作者单位：North Carolina State University
摘要：Nonprofits engaged in public service provision can receive funding from both donors and governments. Much of the nonprofit performance theory suggests that donors are unlikely to base donation decisions on nonprofit production. However, governments may prioritize performance in nonprofit funding decisions. We combine study internal production reports for the years 2010-2016 from 535 Habitat for Humanity Affiliates with financial data from IRS Form 990 reports and housing price data from the FH...
