-
作者：Jimenez, Benedict S.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Northeastern University
摘要：Advocates of citizen participation argue that a greater role for citizens in the budget process can help city governments undergoing fiscal retrenchment by improving budget choices and citizens' willingness to pay, among others. A contrary view suggests that citizens are free riders who want lower taxes but oppose service cuts. How has citizen input influenced the choice of fiscal retrenchment strategies in municipal governments during the Great Recession? The analysis shows that when it comes...
-
作者：Jakobsen, Morten
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：The study focuses on whether government initiatives can increase citizen coproduction of public services, that is, citizens' input to the production of public services. This question has received considerable attention among scholars and governments, but the causal effect of government initiatives on citizen coproduction has been extremely difficult to measure due to endogeneity problems. Moreover, the literature has devoted limited attention to the important question of which citizens are lik...
-
作者：Mosley, Jennifer E.; Grogan, Colleen M.
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：Increasing public participation in administrative decision making has become an important goal in many public agencies. To determine who should participate in an open decision-making process, many public agencies develop purposive selection strategies to counteract the obvious biases that arise from self-selection. To accomplish this, leaders of nonprofit organizations, assumed to represent the views of the residents they serve, are often asked to serve as community representatives in a variet...
-
作者：Gill, Jeff; Witko, Christopher
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Saint Louis University
摘要：In this article we describe in detail the Bayesian perspective on statistical inference and demonstrate that it provides a more principled approach to modeling public administration data. Because many datasets in public administration are population-level, one-time unique collections, or descriptive of fluid events, the Bayesian reliance on probability as a description of unknown quantities is a superior paradigm than that borrowed from Frequentist methods in the natural sciences where experim...
-
作者：Gade, Daniel M.; Wilkins, Vicky M.
作者单位：United States Department of Defense; United States Army; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：The research on representative bureaucracy investigates whether higher levels of representation within public agencies affect policy outcomes. We expand this line of inquiry by examining the effect of symbolic representation on the clients' perceptions of the vocational rehabilitation program administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. We test the link between passive representation and symbolic representation for Veteran identity. This is one of the first studies to investigate an ide...
-
作者：Sinclair, Amber H.; Whitford, Andrew B.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Recent studies contend that public health agencies in the United States are in a state of turmoil because their organizational form causes them to take on conflicting mandates. One key reason is thought to be a trade-off in design: between creating stand-alone agencies for health and environment and creating agencies that combine the two. We use data on the organizational form of state health and environmental agencies to assess the choice of organizational form as a problem of institutional d...
-
作者：Brandsma, Gijs Jan; Schillemans, Thomas
作者单位：Utrecht University
摘要：Accountability is one of the cornerstones of a democratic political system, but remarkably little is known of how it works in practice. Much of the literature focuses either on finding the most appropriate definition or on demonstrating the effect of information asymmetries using game-theoretic arguments. This article aims to go one step further by attempting to map out the intensity of accountability processes. Based on an extensive literature review, it disentangles the various meanings of t...
-
作者：Lecy, Jesse D.; Van Slyke, David M.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Syracuse University
摘要：Theories of nonprofit density have assumed a variety of dispositions toward the state, including opposition, suspicion, indifference, and mutual dependence. In this article, we conduct the first large-scale simultaneous empirical test of the two most prominent nonprofit theories: government failure theory and interdependence theory. The former characterizes nonprofit activities as substitute or oppositional to state programs, accounting for the limitations and failures of government-provided s...
-
作者：Avellaneda, Claudia N.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte
摘要：This study explores the effect on mayoral decision-making of three aspects of the decision environment: issue salience, context, and constraint. The study also tests the moderator effect that decision environment may have on a mayor's qualifications in terms of education and experience. These effects were tested on data drawn from a survey experiment whose subjects were 120 incumbent mayors representing 12 Latin American countries. Mayors were presented with a hypothetical municipal problem in...
-
作者：Meier, Kenneth J.; O'Toole, Laurence J., Jr.
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Cardiff University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：In any design science such as public management, the importance of measurement is central to both scholarship and practice. Research built on measures that are not valid or reliable can generate misleading results and produces little value in the world of practice. This article applies measurement theory to administrators' self-perceptions of organizational performance, measures commonly used in the literature. Such measures can be prone to common source bias whereby spurious results are highl...
