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作者：Jager, Nicolas W.; Newig, Jens; Challies, Edward; Kochskaemper, Elisa
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作者：Alonso, Jose M.; Andrews, Rhys
作者单位：Universidad de Cantabria; Cardiff University
摘要：Theories of sectoral advantage and failure suggest that collaborations between public and nonprofit organizations can create new collaborative capabilities that compensate for sector-specific weaknesses. Drawing on these perspectives, we investigate whether government-created nonprofit organizations (GCNPOs) can turn around public services regarded as failing by government agencies. In doing so, we analyze the transfer of all of the functions of a failing inner London local education authority...
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作者：Guul, Thorbjorn Sejr; Hvidman, Ulrik; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik
作者单位：Aarhus University; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Bristol
摘要：Quasi-markets that introduce choice and competition between public service providers are intended to improve quality and efficiency. This article demonstrates that quasi-market competition may also affect the distribution of users. First, we develop a simple theoretical framework that distinguishes between user sorting and cream-skimming as mechanisms through which quasi-markets may lead to high-ability users becoming more concentrated among one group of providers and low-ability users among a...
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作者：Andersen, Simon Calmar; Hvidman, Ulrik
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：Existing research demonstrates how governments can use insights from behavioral science to design policy and alter residents' behavior. This article proposes that the effect of behavioral interventions may be different in hierarchical organizations where the decision to change behavior and the execution of that decision are split between different individuals. We examine the effect of two small-scale interventions-personal reminders and financial incentives-in a large-scale field experiment wi...
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作者：Usman, Muhammad; Ali, Moazzam; Mughal, Farooq; Agyemang-Mintah, Peter
作者单位：COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI); University of Bath; Brunel University
摘要：In an era of New Public Management reforms, public sector policies often create a mismatch between social and economic values that can lead to public policy alienation-professionals' feelings of disconnection from public policies. Policy alienation can create unrest among public professionals and carry several negative repercussions for their wellbeing and work-related attitudes. The negative repercussions of policy alienation are likely to inhibit public service delivery. However, existing re...
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作者：Baekgaard, Martin; Moynihan, Donald P.; Thomsen, Mette Kjaergaard
作者单位：Aarhus University; Georgetown University; University of Southern Denmark
摘要：Administrative burdens affect peoples' experience of public administration but there is, to date, limited evidence to as why policymakers are willing to accept and impose burdens.To address this gap, we draw from the policy design and administrative burden literatures to develop the concept of burden tolerance-the willingness of policymakers and people more generally to passively allow or actively impose state actions that result in others experiencing administrative burdens. Drawing on a surv...
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作者：Kaufmann, Wesley; Haans, Richard F. J.
作者单位：Tilburg University; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：Public administration scholarship is facing a crisis of legitimacy, as academic research is viewed as both increasingly irrelevant for practice and methodologically underdeveloped. In this study, we put forward a so-called collocation analysis approach, which is a useful tool for studying the meaning of key concepts in public administration and (re)focusing academic research agendas to salient societal problems by identifying how concepts are talked about in different domains. To illustrate ou...
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作者：van der Veer, Reinout Arthur
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：Organizational reputation theory suggests reputational threats can induce public organizations to change their behavior. However, it offers few insights into how organizations in contexts of high audience heterogeneity prioritize between conflicting threats, or how they ensure reputation-seeking signals reach their intended audiences. This article seeks to close these knowledge gaps. It expects organizational threat prioritization to be shaped by the centrality of the threat to the organizatio...
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作者：Beaton, Erynn E.; LePere-Schloop, Megan; Smith, Rebecca
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Research suggests powerful resource dependencies are present in the public and nonprofit sectors. The individuals operating at the nexus between organizations and resource providers, and who mitigate dependencies, are referred to as boundary spanners. Research suggests that there may be both positive and negative personal repercussions for boundary spanners, but research has not sufficiently examined these unintended consequences through a gender lens. Bringing together research on resource de...
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作者：Nederhand, Jose
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：The topic of government-nonprofit collaboration continues to be much-discussed in the literature. However, there has been little consensus on whether and how collaborating with government is beneficial for the performance of community-based nonprofits.This article examines three dominant theoretical interpretations of the relationship between collaboration and performance: collaboration is necessary for the performance of nonprofits; the absence of collaboration is necessary for the performanc...
