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作者：Ressler, Robert W.; Paxton, Pamela; Velasco, Kristopher; Pivnick, Lilla; Weiss, Inbar; Eichstaedt, Johannes C.
作者单位：Brandeis University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Stanford University
摘要：Looking to supplement common economic indicators, politicians and policymakers are increasingly interested in how to measure and improve the subjective well-being of communities.Theories about nonprofit organizations suggest that they represent a potential policy-amenable lever to increase community subjective well-being. Using longitudinal cross-lagged panel models with IRS and Twitter data, this study explores whether communities with higher numbers of nonprofits per capita exhibit greater s...
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作者：Kalesnikaite, Vaiva; Neshkova, Milena, I
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport; State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：Prior research identifies problem severity as an important antecedent of collaboration. Yet, little is known about how problem severity shapes collaborative behavior of public organizations beyond the initial decision to engage in such action. This study adds to the theory of collaboration by linking problem severity to the stage of collaborative activity and partner selection. We empirically test the validity of these linkages in the context of US local governments and examine how they respon...
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作者：Baekgaard, Martin; Mikkelsen, Kim Sass; Madsen, Jonas Krogh; Christensen, Julian
作者单位：Aarhus University; Roskilde University
摘要：State actions impact the lives of citizens in general and government benefit recipients in particular. However, little is known about whether experiences of psychological costs among benefit recipients can be relieved by reducing compliance demands in interactions with the state. Across three studies, we provide evidence that reducing demands causes relief. In a survey experiment, we show that psychological costs experienced by Danish unemployment insurance recipients change in response to inf...
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作者：Bolton, Alexander; de Figueiredo, John M.; Lewis, David E.
作者单位：Emory University; Duke University; Vanderbilt University
摘要：A defining feature of public sector employment in the United States is the regular change in elected leadership. We describe how these changes alter policy and disrupt civil servants' influence over agency decisions, potentially shaping their career choices. Using data on careers from over three million federal employees in the United States from 1988 to 2011, we evaluate how administration changes influence turnover in a series of regression analyses. We find substantial stability in the civi...
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作者：Deslatte, Aaron; Swann, William L.; Feiock, Richard C.
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Children's Hospital Colorado; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：A normative assumption of government reform efforts such as New Public Management is that fostering a more innovative, proactive, and risk-taking organizational culture-developing what has been described as an entrepreneurial orientation (EO)-improves performance. But in arenas like urban sustainability, performance can be an ambiguous, multifaceted concept. Managers' assessments of their own nimbleness, innovative thinking, and risk culture are also likely to influence how they interpret the ...
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作者：Lavee, Einat
作者单位：University of Haifa
摘要：Street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) nowadays provide services under conditions of increased demand for public services coupled with scarcer financial resources. The literature that focuses on how workers adapt to this situation mainly examines their provision of formal resources as part of their job. What researchers have not systematically examined is the delivery of informal personal resources (IFRs) by street-level workers to clients. Understanding the provision of IFRs is particularly importan...
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作者：Ventriss, Curtis
作者单位：University of Vermont
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作者：Marvel, John D.
作者单位：George Mason University
摘要：We examine how occupation, race, and sex interact to affect employees' probability of promotion to the upper reaches of federal agencies' personnel hierarchies. Three interrelated questions draw our attention. First, we are interested in whether employees who are members of an agency's dominant occupational group are more likely to be promoted to Senior Executive Service (SES) positions than employees who are members of non-dominant occupational groups. Second, we are interested in whether any...
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作者：Baker, Daniel Brice; Hassan, Shahidul
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：This article contributes to our understanding of the role of gender in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion. We use administrative data from a prosecutor's office in a large urban county to estimate the direct and interactive effects of defendant and prosecutor gender on accepting initial charges brought by law enforcement officials. After implementing coarsened exact matching, Probit regression results suggest that prosecutors, on average, are more likely to accept charges against male de...
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作者：Guy, Mary E.
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver
