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作者:Borins, Sandford
作者单位:University of Toronto
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作者:McGrath, Robert J.
作者单位:George Mason University
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作者:Limbocker, Scott
作者单位:United States Military Academy; United States Department of Defense; United States Army
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作者:Arapis, Theodore; Bowling, Cynthia
作者单位:Villanova University; Auburn University System; Auburn University
摘要:Since the 1960s, public choice theorists have stigmatized bureaucrats as budget maximizers who only care for expanding their own agencies. Despite evidence revealing much more diverse budget behaviors, scholars have almost exclusively focused on studying budget maximizing and its associated factors. To address this limitation, this study employs a multi-level cross-classified logistic regression model to explore factors associated with budget-minimizing preferences or goals instead. While budg...
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作者:Whetsell, Travis A.; Siciliano, Michael D.; Witkowski, Kaila G. K.; Leiblein, Michael J.
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作者:Jankowski, Michael; Prokop, Christine; Tepe, Markus
作者单位:Carl von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg
摘要:Drawing on Weber, this study tests whether the normative principles of merit orientation and impartiality are more prevalent in shaping public hiring preferences among civil servants-both junior and senior-than among private sector employees. In a conjoint experiment, respondents are asked to compare two hypothetical applicants for an office job in a municipal administration and to decide which they would hire. The application profiles vary with respect to a set of meritocratic and nonmeritocr...
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作者:Albrecht, Kate
作者单位:University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
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作者:Jensen, Ulrich Thy
作者单位:Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
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作者:Jilke, Sebastian; Baekgaard, Martin
作者单位:Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Aarhus University
摘要:The provision of public services is a key responsibility of elected politicians. Research suggests that citizens' satisfaction evaluations of public services are incomplete representations of service quality and performance. However, little attention has been given to the political nature of service evaluations. Based on the theory of (partisan) motivated reasoning and the literature on responsibility attribution, we argue that citizens provide more favorable evaluations of municipal services ...
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作者:Greer, Alex
作者单位:State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY